Home Run!

Owen has been involved in EPA Softball since he was in the womb and Elaine was still playing on the team. He went to Bad Air Daze games as a baby and I like to thinks some of his love of baseball has to do with all his time around our little informal softball league. He got his first hit in a real game just after he turned eight and has been playing in games ever since. Post-pandemic the format of games has been a little different as we most offices don't have enough players to field a full team, so we've been mostly doing pick-up games. We've been hoping to get one last game in before he goes off to college, but things were looking dicey for a while as weather cancellations and travel kept foiling our plans. But everything came together on the day between Owen's 18th birthday and the day he leaves for college and we were able to get one last game in. Owen and I biked down to the Mall, chatted with old EPA colleagues and teammates, tossed the ball around to warm up, and played some softball on a gorgeous day. Best of all, Owen hit his first home run! What a way to wrap up the season, and hope we can both play again next year when he's home from college for the summer :-)