I Hit a HOMERUN!!!

No, seriously, I did! Turns out it was a weekend of a lot of different firsts for me, some expected and some not...
First, this last Friday I took one of the majors teams, the Indians, to play the American International School of Budapest, a super nice school about 45 minutes away. I was the head coach of the team for the first time, and it went quite well! Thankfully one of the kids could translate for me (he learned english from video games... :) ) and one of the Erd men's team players also came along to coach. We ended up losing, but the kids played well and had fun, we just couldn't quite get enough strikes from our pitchers, which is always the concern with baseball at that level... :) we ended up getting home from that around 9:30, and then i woke up at 6 the next morning for a Pioneers (mens division 2) double-header in Nemesvamos!
Its a small town near Lake Balaton about 1.5 hours away, and the field ended up being on a hill overlooking a valley and the town. It was a great view for a game, the only problem was that the field was also on the slope...and the pitchers mound was lower than home plate! The first game went really well and it was easily the best game I have played as a hitter, mainly because in the first 2 games I played I struck out about 5 times and only had 1 hit...but the first game I was able to get on base every time and I hit a home run! It was actually quite surprising to me...really that is the best way I could say it, surprising... :) It was a 1-2 count so I didn't swing that hard, but I hit it perfectly and it just flew! Turns out that I didn't feel like jumping up and down like I imagined as a kid, but instead thought "I have to run around the bases by myself? This is awkward." And it was, but it was totally worth the awkward! :) Later in the game I also played catcher for 6 innings, which was the first time I have done that too! It wasn't as bad as I expected, although I couldn't get even close to throwing anyone out at second... :) We won the first game by 2, but the second game ended up being a complete mess! We didn't have a lot of the normal players because they were in Croatia, and it turned out that out pitching ran out after the first game...I pitched 2/3 of an inning, but I didn't practice much before and my arm was hurting and I don't throw too hard anyway... :) Overall we were happy with the split though!
Yesterday I had my final first of the weekend, umpiring behind the plate...turned out this wasn't nearly as bad as I expected! There is a lot going on so a couple of times I was slow to react, mainly when a foul ball was hit and I forgot to give the catcher another ball... :) It went quite well though and even though I missed a few, turns out I am not as worried about messing up as I used to do be! I guess that's a good thing... :)
Anyway, to sum it all up, it was a really busy weekend and full of new things! And I really enjoyed some relaxing today... :)