Shawn's Last Baseball Game

Sat. June 5, 2009 Shawn played his last baseball game. This year in baseball, pitching machine, has been a year that only God could script.
We were not able to be in town on the day the players chose their numbers so we did not get a choice. Shawn was given #1. He hit the ball about 80% of his at bats, but because of his muscle weakness was regularly thrown out at 1st. On three occasions he got on base, then was batted in to score. He calls those his home runs because he got to run home.
Shawn's team played a tournament in Bradly, AR. Shawn's team won every game and was about to begin the Championship game. A thunderstorm rolled in and they called the game. Shawn's team had already beat the team they were about to play so by that Shawn's team won the tournament.
Now I am going to tell this part of the story as Shawn told it to my mother on the phone after the game. "Grandma guess what we were playing in a tournament today and we won all our games to the championship. A storm came, but we already beat that team so we won the championship. We all got a little trophy for winning and they gave the coach a big trophy. It was as big as me. The coach said he was going give the big trophy to one of the players and guess who he gave it to? Me and I got the game ball because I made my first homerun, that means he scored."
On Friday May 22 KTBS channel 3 showed up at Shawn's Baseball game. The were videoing Shawn and not the other players. I found out that His coaches had nominated Shawn for athlete of the week. It aired on June 3rd. They did a wonderful job on the story.
The best thing of that night was something we never would have expected. Shawn was up to bat. We were up by 11. Our coach was only advancing one base for each hit we got not to run up the score. He talked to the other team's coach before this inning and told him he wouldn't run up the score, but when Shawn bats he was going to let him advance as far as he can go. Well Shawn was up to bat, bases loaded, first pitch, foul down first base line, second pitch foul out side third base, third pitch he hammered toward second base on the 3rd base side. He ran and got on first. The out fielder over threw the third baseman trying for another runner. Shawn is sent to second. The catcher gets the ball and tries to throw Shawn out at second. He throws a rocket into the outfield. Shawn is sent to third. The center fielder and the right fielder are fighting over the ball. Shawn rounds third and heads home. Three runs have scored. The out fielder launches the ball towards home. Shawn is feet from the plate when the ball lands and bounces over the catcher's head. Shawn slides home. GRANDSLAM! Shawn got to play pitcher for the rest of the game.
Shawn played his last game hopefully only the last of this year. You can see a video of his last 2 at bats and his victory lap during the end of the year tourny at Marjorie's Facebook page. After the game he asked his coach if he could run the bases one more time. The coach announced to everyone there that Shawn was about to run a victory lap for the team. You should have seen them cheer him on.
You can see a replay of Shaw's athlete of the week at KTBS.com then click SPORTS then Athlete of the Week. I should post June 7, 8, or 9 then run for a week. they are to air another spot about Shawn on KTBS 3 Sun. June 7 at 6pm. Then on PAX 21 at 9pm.