April 23

This is what a walk-off wild pitch looks like.

And fortunately, that's Brady's team doing the celebrating.

They engaged in quite the competitive game this evening against a team they'd played (and beaten) twice before. Since Brady threw 67 pitches during his Babe Ruth game Sunday he was ineligible to take the mound, but he contributed in other ways: offensively, he had two hits and a pair of stolen bases, and defensively, he turned a key double play when we caught a hard liner and tossed it to second base to erase the runner who'd prematurely headed for third. 

Anyway, the score was knotted at 3-3 when his team came up to bat in the bottom of the first extra inning. Our runner who began the inning on second base --because today's umpires said we needed to follow the international rule on that even though we never have before-- stole third base, and then, a few balls later, ran home on a wild pitch. And the celebration commenced.

We don't always come out on top in this life. In fact, much of the time I think we fail more than we win, probably because failing teaches us so much. But those winning moments are pretty darn sweet, so I am thankful for this one.