May 18

Although the forecast promised more rain today, there were baseball games to be played so we headed off to the Sports Park mid-morning to watch both Isaac and Brady take the field. Since both had 11 AM start times and Adam is Isaac's team's official scorekeeper, he headed a few fields down for that affair while Abby and I settled in for the AA match-up.

As anticipated, the rain arrived about three innings into Brady's game, so we sat (in the rain) for quite a while as the umpires, coaches, and league officials tried to figure out what to do. Isaac's team --the underdogs in their game-- played a speedier game, wound up getting in their six innings, and came away with a 7-4 win to advance to the next round of play. He was all smiles as he and Adam joined us on the (by then very wet) bleachers.

It was, in all honesty, extremely frustrating to sit there in the pouring down rain as the league reps apparently tried to press them to resume play (since not doing so would require a delay of future games in the division), but if I had to sit there and be frustrated with anyone at all, I'd prefer to sit and be frustrated with these two. (Especially given that the boy was happily recounting his hits and defensive success and the girl --filled with soft pretzel and Icee-- was a bit punchy.)

You've definitely got to stand a little rain in this lifetime, but people like them make weathering the storms much more palatable for me. (Oh, and Brady's game? They at long last postponed it.)