Craziness and Baseball

Last night was our only game of baseball this week.  Friday nights are a little rough around here.  The boys are usually beat after a long week of school, plus this week the older 2 had both been sick and were still recovering.  I attribute all of that to the way they played!  Both pitched again, but neither did great! Nathaniel pitched the 1st and 2nd innings.  He had 4 strike outs, 2 walks and 5 hits.  On offense he had a Home Run in the 2nd and a single later in the game.

Ronnie pitched the 5th inning.  He was scheduled to pitch again in the 6th but that inning wasn't played because the other team was too far ahead!  So in the 5th Ronnie had 2 strike outs, 4 walks, and 2 hits!  Ronnie batted a single in the game and a walk that ended up scoring!

So they didn't do too bad, but they have done better.  Their fielding was not that great either.  They were a little down on themselves, especially since Pap and Grandma had driven 2 hours to see them play and they didn't do their best!  You'll just have to come back for another game, Pap and Grandma!

The highlight of the game actually came about 30 minutes before the game.  Coach Daddy was warming up another pitcher, by catching for him.  The pitch came in, hit the front of the plate and popped up to hit him right in the nose.  Broken Nose!  

After some time of cleaning him up, icing and packing him full of gauze, he proceeded to coach through the game.  He should have iced a little while longer because he was still bleeding 4 hours later when we got home.  He is sore and bruised some today and you can see the stitches from the ball on his nose, but it doesn't compare to the injury he had 15 years ago (according to his mom 15 years and 48 days ago).  During that accident he was playing college ball when the lights went out.  He had shattered his orbital and fractured his face bones and nose.  It was major and a major miracle that he can see (20/20) today and really has had no major lasting problems from it.  The doctors were intending to allow all the swelling to go down and then remove his eye, but before that surgery could happen the bones began to "mesh back together".  It was God, only GOD!  

So we are thankful that this injury last night compared only in that it was a broken nose.  It could have been so much worse.  

Maddie said "Daddy looks like a walrus" because he had gauze sticking out of both nostrils during the game.  He's tough!
I am so thankful that it wasn't worse.

He started out the morning in Wilmore at 5am and returned home for a game in which he broke his nose before the game even started!

Jesus is watching out for our family and we are thankful!  

I'm praying there will be no more injuries this season!