I wake up, Chamionship Sunday. I throw on some shorts and a tee shirt to go eat some breakfast. As I enter the lobby I see my teamates sitting down eatting their food. I pull a chair over and request an omlet and fruit bowl. As we eat, we talk about the game coming up. Sitting inside the hotel, hours in the car away from home. After a week of playing baseball, eatting seafood, and walking down the beach. They day has come, the day of the Chamionship game.
We wake up very early in the morning.We have our bags packed, and ready to head out. We are leaving before anyone else, we leave at 4 in the morning. We have Westin with us, one of my teamates. He is going to be riding down with us. We play on our phones, listen to music, and just talk pretty much the whole way down. Stopping every once in a while to eat and fill up the car. The trip is rather boring, but what trip isn’t. Sitting in one spot going down a stright flat road for countless hours and miles.
When we arrived at the large destination calle, Gulf Shores. There was 62 teams in this town right now. The first day here we are down at the beach and walking down the beach with my teamates trying to pick up chicks. We play racketball in the hotel and Our postseaon mohawks are looking pretty sweet.
Day two, we spend playing baseball. The player we picked up named will that is from the All Arkansas team that we were on together is quite the player. We go hand in hand. We are both huge, 6’3” and 190 each. We can both stroke the ball and throw the heater. Our team is clearly one of the best teams here. We go 2-0 the 1st day on these amazing fields, they are way better than what we have back home. Game 1 we won 14-1, beating a AA team who should not even be on the same field as us. Game 2 we spend in a pitching dual. We end up winning the game 3-0 on a walk off 3 run homerun by Westin Church.
That night we spending roaming the beach. We went fishing on the shore line, we caught a lot of fish. I caught 2 sharks. They were about a foot and half a piece. We cooked all of the fish we caught and then went to bed, needing to rest for the next day.
Day three, we all wake up at the crack of dawn having the 8 O’clock game and having to show up at 7 am. Once we reach the field we all get into our streching, and agilities lines. After we get the blood pumping we hit the batting cage. We are smashing the baseball. After we all hit we take out our gloves and warm up. I am pitching this game againist one of the best teams in this tourney. We end up winning by a close score 2-1. Game 4 of the tourney comes along and our team is playing bad. The 9th inning roles around and im up 1st, we are down 3-0. I get hit in the back, it left a mark. Next Will is up, smashing a double. 3-1. Next Badger hits a 2 run home run, now 3-3. The pitcher then walks 2 stright then Westin its a Walk off double. We are now 4-0 and the 2 seed going into bracket play.
Eliminmation starts, its July 4. We are playing in the gold bracket and are 4-0. The team we are playing went 2-2. We take them on at 11am. It turned out to be a easy game. We hit 2 homers in the 1st inning giving us a 5-0 lead. They game stayed like that throughout, We advanced to the 2pm quarter final game agaisnt a 3-1 team for Texas. The game stayed knoted at 1-1 till the 7th when Cole hits a triple then scored on a whild pitch. They other team ansered back with a 2 run home run. We were down 3-2. The bottom of th 9th came along with 1 out. I hit a double, stole third and was hit home. The next 2 guys struckout. We go into extras were we end up winning 5-4 in the 12th.
That night we partyed hard. It was the 4th of July, fireworks going off everwhere down at the beach. Watching drunk people all over the place, having a great time.
The team went out for a team brunch. We played at 4pm, versus the 3rd best team in the nation. As the game started, the 1st pitch came and I stroked one right back up the middle and hit the pither in the arm. He started screaming, I stoped at 1st. Everyone runs out and he is carted away. Later in the game it is said he broke his arm. We ended up winning the game 11-8. The pitching for both of our teams was very bad. We came out with the ugly win however.
Chamionship Sunday, I wake up early full of energy. Its 6am, I cant sleep. I decide to go grab some food along the beachline. As a strole down the beach I think about the game to come. I stop to grab some food and my teamate, Westin, is already here. I sit with him and we talk about the day to come. Shortly, before we relize it its time to start the game.
We are playing the 1 seed who also was 4-0 and now 7-0, just like us. The game is a pitchers dual until they hit a 3 run home run in the 6th. We fight back scoring 1 in the next 2 innings. We are down 1 goingi into the 8 where they score 2 more. It comes down to the 9th, bases are loaded 2 outs, I am at the plate. Tieing run is 180ft away on 2nd. Here comes the pitch, its a curveball and I rip it up the middle, Into the outfield. The center fielder charges, one run in. Cole from second is rounding 3rd and heading for home. The fielder fires the ball. Seconds, then you see the conision. Cole ran over the catcher, safe. The catcher gets up and shoves him. I run from 1st and tackle the catcher. The benchs clear. Fans are screaming and coachs are trying to pull kids off of eachother. Badger gets into it with the pitcher and throws a punch into the pitchers face. Blood is covering the area around home plate. Many players are hurt, on of their coachs has a cut running across his eye.
The game goes into extras. We hold them, going into the bottom of the 10th. The 1st pitch is thrown at our head, he drops. Benchs come out again, several players are thrown out of the game, the pitcher that hit him ends up with a broken collarbone from Devin body slaming him onto one of his teamates.
The game goes on, into the 13th inning Slunder is up again. Runners on 1st and second, 1out. He bunts advancing the runners to 2nd and 3rd. Harmon comes up, batting just 139 in the tourney. He gets walked on a 11 pitch at bat. Will comes up, here is the pitch… He swings, you hear the crack of the bat, the Left fielder runs back towards the wall. The ball is going...going...going. The fielder leaps…… Ball hits his glove and pops right back out going over the wall. We won!!!!!!
That night some of us went fishing and went to the srtip to hang out and have fun. However, some of the people and their familes went home that night. We all had a great night! We stayed out till 4 in the morning hanging out. We all had to get up early, in a few hours. We had many hours in the car, many of us would be sleeping the entire way from staying up so late and having our bodies so tired and sore from the games.
On the trip back I think about how awesome it was to go out number one in my last year of travel baseball. I won the home-run derby skills championship. Many of my teamates one some of the skills things also, like fast most accurate, and others. Our team was clearly the best or one of the best there from day one. We proved that also winning the touney. Me and my teamates will be playing highschool baseball now, apart from eachother.
Most of us have grown up together. Playing travel baseball with eachother since we were 9 years old. Losing many games together and winning many. Some of them ill play with and some agianist in highschool baseball. My teamates have been like brothers, hate them and love them. Through all of out problems and chamiponships we have came out number 1. We leave our tracks unforgoton, setting the stakes high for the teams to follow in our foot steps.
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