June 2

Isaac's Blue Team played their last official game of the season tonight. (There's some confusion-slash-indecision over whether or not they'll play a few more games this weekend, but today's game was the last one on the schedule. So that's that.)

Their performance over the course of the season was what I'd call uneven: sometimes they played reasonably well, sometimes they were unabashedly awful and it seemed like they'd never seen a baseball much less thrown or caught one. (I know that sounds harsh, but well, truth.) 

But tonight was a great game for them. They wound up ending the game early because they were beating the other team 15-5, and everyone contributed in one way or another. And best of all, they seemed to be having fun.

As I watched I realized the whole team was present, so after the post-game meeting I hustled out to the field and asked if we could take a pic (since a few kids missed picture day). So this is them, the boys Isaac played baseball with a few times a week for the past several months. The ones who have cheered each other on and who teased each other as only pre-teen and early-teen boys can do and who kept smiling even when they struggled to get it together. This is the 2021 Intermediate Blue Team. And win, lose, or draw, I am blessed that my kiddo (who is the fourth kid from the left in the second row) is one of them.