BGSjr working his way though our neighborhood baseball tourney. Top 8 teams made the series. Same 2-loss format at Omaha. My second year coaching and love it.
We (Cardinals) lost to the Cubs in round two. It’s our rival team - boys all friends at school. Im drinking buddies with their coach. Each of these two teams has 4 boys on all-star squad that travels regionally. Our games are fun and usually cook out together afterwards.
Unfortunately we caught them in the second round and have had to work our ass off to get out of the losers bracket. Mission accomplished.
Today when we beat the Royals (18-2) we did not make one defensive error including multiple fly balls and line drives caught (these are 8 year olds). Jr plays first and was a vacuum tonight. The 18 runs on our part is no big deal for kids this age. Holding them to 2 runs was a hallmark moment of the season.
The cubs will beat the tigers tomorrow and we will be back at it with the cubs on Sunday as long as we take care of business with the tigers on Thursday.
Here’s the bracket the little man has been religious about studying and a couple action shots.