Wow that title sounds a little dramatic doesn’t it!?  Sort of like the front page of the KC Star sports section sometimes sounds when our precious Royals lose an important game.  You’ve probably seen this in previous posts, but just to reiterate, these Bulldogs are like family to us.  Brian absolutely adores these boys and puts every ounce of energy he can into coaching them.  We are not affiliated with a club, we are just a group of great boys and great families that love to play together.  Brian adores the game of baseball so we are sad to report that tonight was our last game of the season.

This week we have been competing in our last tournament and tonight it was a win or go home situation.  Ironically, we were matched up against Brian’s childhood buddy, Nate Porras’ team, the Stealers.  Coincidentally, this is the same team we beat at the beginning of the season to take home a championship trophy.  We  did not have our normal roster due to vacation, illness, and injury, and this was the last game for Evan who is moving out of state next month.  We are sad to see him go and sad to see his dad, Coach Rodney, go too!  We were hoping to make it to the championship game for them…it would have been a great way to send them off!

Here’s a picture of Aidan watching the game on iScore from his couch suffering from pneumonia wishing he was able to play with us!  We were doing our best to win this one for you Aidan!  Get better buddy!

We lost this one 18-17 in extra time…see the final iscore posting below.  Jake was our closing pitcher and needless to say when we couldn’t pull this one out, tears were flowing. This is super hard for a mom to watch.  Those of you who know Jake can attest to his absolute drive to win at all sports but I know he wanted to win this one for Brian which makes it much harder.  Likewise, Brian wanted this win for this group of kiddos so badly that it was even hard for him to keep his composure at the post-game talk.

I would have loved nothing more than to drive on over to 3and2 for the ten millionth time again tomorrow night to see these kiddos play.  And I’m 100% certain that Brian would drop anything and everything for the opportunity to coach them.

 

Keep throwing strikes and making plays buddy.  You will win some and lose some and either way, we are so proud of you because you give it all you have EVERY SINGLE GAME.

 

Bulldogs, thank you for making this baseball season an absolute blast to watch and I can’t wait to watch you again next season.  Coach Brian…you rock…thank you for being so passionate about the game of baseball and caring so much about these little athletes.

As I sign off for this baseball season, I’m personally doing a little happy dance that I have a break from scrubbing on these bad boys for a few months…

GO BULLDOGS!