It must have been the haircut

Not surprisingly, the day was no lazy Saturday. We got up quite early for Darby's game and were at the field by 8:30 for warm-ups, but the game that was supposed to start at 9am didn't start until fifteen minutes later due to technical difficulties with the pitching machine. The problem with that was the fact that Darby needed to leave the game early to attend a first communion class at church just down the street. I thought we'd get almost the whole game in, but we ended up leaving only half-way through it because of the delay.

After Darby's class and a CiCi's pizza lunch, we got her the haircut she'd been begging for of late. It's not been this short since she was a baby.



We had a 2pm softball game afterward, met with more delays. It was probably more than thirty minutes after the scheduled start time before we got to play because the previous game went on so long. It was another nail-biter as Darby's team was losing but then came back to tie it, only to be overtaken in the end. During the game, Darby had an excellent third-to-first put-out and a couple solid hits. The irony of the loss is that the girl that scored the go-ahead run for the other team was on Darby's team last year. So the question of the day is, did we lose because the other team overpowered us, or was it the haircut?

Since it was a double-elimination tournament, and since they lost this morning, that was it for us and the tournament. Had we won that last game we would have had to go grab some dinner and head back to the field for a third game of the day. Not that I'm going to say something crazy like we had enough baseball for a couple of days, but I was okay with that second loss considering they played so hard and almost pulled ahead against a very good opponent.