Daddy Diaries: Evan's First Ever Baseball Game!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Evan's First Ever Baseball Game!

I think that for most guys, even before you become a father, you think about the day you get to take your son to his first baseball game. For Evan and I, today was the day. Evan's really been getting into baseball lately. Since the weather's been nice, he wants to go outside and play "catch." What I've been most impressed with, is his ability to make contact with the bat (He's not even 2.) Our neighbors, the Fitzpatrick's bought him a T-ball set. Evan doesn't want to hit the ball off the T, he wants daddy to pitch to him. Evan grabbed the bat, and lined up to bat left handed like he's been doing it all his life. There was never that moment where I had to stand behind him and awkwardly show him how to hold the bat. Since the Phillies were home for 10 games, I wanted to take him to his first game this week. He was a little overwhelmed at first. When we got inside the ballpark he got real quiet, just watching all the people walking around, but he seemed pretty comfortable once we got to our seats. He was pointing at the field and saying "baseball!" Our seats were on the third base line, just past the Mets dugout, 8 rows deep. Evan was doing great until the 4th inning, when the Phillies scored 9 runs. Between the Grand Slam and 2 Run Homer that occurred that inning, it was a little too loud for Evan. He covered his ears and wouldn't remove his hands. I think the noise scared him a bit, and at that point he was done. We left in the 5th inning, with Evan covering his ears until we were outside of the ballpark. Evan's first game featured 6 home runs, one them a grand slam, which all happened before the 5th inning.

The gentleman in the photo to our right, (in the photo,) upon finding out that it was Evan's first game, promised Evan $1 for every run the Phillies scored. Evan went home with $11 in his pocket tonight.