Personal Essay: Digging Up To The Field

I was walking up to the baseball diamond at Hyatt Elementary. I was eating a greasy piece of pizza. I saw the dark clouds in the sky, but I didn’t expect the rain to come, because it was hot and muggy. This is because it was June of 2017. When the game started we (my team and Fenton’s team) sang the “ Star Spangled Banner” on the 1st and 3rd base line. They were blaring it. We went on to the field and started to warm up. Soon as we started to warm up the umpires stopped the game for 30 minutes, because it started to rain. We went to Luke Ladrew’s ( teammate) dad’s house(coach) and waited. After we waited for 30 minutes we went back to the field and started to play the game.
My team was the home team so we had to play in the field first. The 1st player for Fenton hit a homerun. After that we got Fenton to ground …show more content…
We ended up popping the ball up 3 straight times to end the inning. They felt really bad. The next inning turned out to be the worst we ever had. It was the top of the 6th inning. Our team gave up 5 hits and 5 runs. It was the bottom of the 6th inning. Are best players were up. They popped up the ball 3 times again, but the Fenton team did not catch any of them. Calvin got struckout. Luke hit a ball, but was thrown out at 1st. Jimmy was up (teammate) and he struck out on a bad call by the umpire. We were batting in the bottom of the 7th inning and we felt we could come back and win, because our best hitters were up. That thought ended when the umpires ended the game because they heard thunder and it started to lightly sprinkle. They also didn’t wait because they didn’t want to be playing until 10:00. I started to get tears in my eye, but my coaches said we did not win or lose, because it was never completed. Fenton did not win or lose either even though they were celebrating a championship win and got big trophies. So I went home with little tears in my eyes knowing we did not win or