Tigers Go! Tigers Go!

This is Sarah's cheer anytime she sees anything having to do with baseball, Tigers or not. The boys are avid sports fans. They love to cheer for the local team, which ever season is currently playing. Right now it is Baseball. We watch a Tigers game nearly every night. Well at least the first 5 innings anyway. Soon we will be watching hockey and then maybe Basketball. They haven't really gotten into Football yet. They liked the local High School team because several of our youth group boys played for the District winning team. Professional football is another story. But I digress. The boys were out side this afternoon playing ball. They have an aluminium bat and the works as far as equipment goes thanks to grandparents and their dad. (Bats, balls, mitts-2 each, batting gloves, batting helmet, catchers mitt-for dad, and who knows what else. The only thing they are missing is an automatic pitcher and some bases.) I know, even from in the house, when they hit a good one cause the bat makes a metallic ringing sound. After the first one they run in to tell me how far they hit it and that they got a home run. (Ran from tree to tree before his brother, pitcher and only outfielder, could get the ball and tag him.) After that I just listen for the "ping". They can play for hours or just minutes before a fight breaks out. Usually it is because one or the other isn't hitting the ball because the other one isn't throwing the ball correctly. Pitcher and batter change daily in this scenario. A good day is when pitcher is throwing well enough for the batter to hit it, even golf ball style. Daniel occasionally is allowed to play and does fairly well. A few of those "ping"s are his too. His favorite thing to do is run the "bases". Which is fine by me cause then he is actually tired at bedtime. These pictures are a few I took today. Sarah wanted in on the act too. Tigers Go! Tigers Go! Tigers Go!

Did they win tonight? I only saw the first 5 innings.