Kyle sold his birthright for a chocolate cream pie!

We are still in the tournament. Tonight Kyle played his fourth game of the tournament. Three must win games have all been won and they continue...

Tonight we played a team that had beaten us in the regular season and exacted revenge. It was probably the ugliest game I have ever seen us play. We are usually a solid defensive team, but our defense was atrocious tonight, but timely pitching and timely plays saved the day. Kyle came in to pitch in the top of the fourth with the Red Sox down 3-1. He threw two shutout innings and our offense finally came alive to give a 6-3 lead going into the final inning (6th). Kyle came in and made it interesting for all of us. A couple of walks here, a bobbled grounder there and the bases are loaded with nobody out. Kyle got pulled (put at first base) at that point and our hardest thrower was brought in. Luckily, he was throwing strikes. He got two outs on KO's while two runs ended up scoring on a hit and another one of those errors. So here we are with the tying run 60 ft. away from home and two outs. The batter hits a ground ball to our shortstop, who fields it cleanly, takes a few steps to first (I thought he was going to run over there and hand Kyle the ball), and fires the ball into the dirt. Ol' stetch over there at first base reaches out and digs the ball out of the dirt, lifts it into the air and the umpire calls the third out. Game over.

Now at the end of every Little League game on the planet earth, there are snacks. All little leaguers love snacks - except for the Red Sox in the playoffs. Oh, we still have snacks, but they take a back door to our playoff tradition. A Pie. If we lose, we eat the pie. If we win, all player names go into a hat and one is randomly drawn. The drawn name then gets to place the pie wherever they choose - usually a face. Up to this point in time, this has been funny, but today, Kyle's name was drawn. I am sure that there are many people who deserved a pie in their face and I can think of many reasons why I did NOT deserve a pie in my face; however, reason did not prevail in this instance and I was the recipient.

Joshua will now inherit the oldest son's portion!