Baseball Struggles Continue
April 19, 2009
Sean’s baseball team struggles continue with another loss. At least they are getting better each game and closer too. This time, the went down to defeat by a score of 10 – 7. The good new is that at one point in the game, they were actually leading 7 – 6. But once again, a change in pitchers doomed them as the other team was able to successful hit the new pitcher.
This was actually quite a miserable game to be at. The temperature was hovering around 50 degrees with sustained winds of 20 – 30 mph with bigger gusts. Can you say cold? Well, at least for us Arizonans where the temp last week was in the 90′s.
Sean caught the whole game and did pretty good. He went 0 – 3 at the plate with three ground outs – two of them well hit. I need to work with him some more on a more level swing as he tends to swing down on the ball. He makes good contact and hits the ball sharply, but usually on the ground.
Two more games next week as the season continues. There is even some talk of adding a Saturday game or two so our schedule stays busy!
Close (Sort of) But No Cigar For Sean’s Team
April 14, 2009
Monday meant another baseball game for Sean’s team. They had started the season with two consecutive losses and were hoping to stop that bad streak in this game. Unfortunately, it was not to be as they went down to defeat once again by a score of 19 – 4.
Actually, the game was a whole lot closer than the score indicates. They went into the sixth inning trailing only by a score of 5 – 4. However, their pitcher had reached his pitch limit and they had to put another kid on the mound. While the kid did throw strikes, the baseball looked more like a beachball and the other team had some batting practice as they batted around the order and scored 14 runs in the inning. It was rather painful to watch as the kids pretty much couldn’t do anything on defense. One kid even hit a grand slam home run over the fence.
Sean was back behind the plate and caught a pretty good game. He didn’t fare as well at the plate though as he struck out once and hit two hard one hop grounders that unfortunately were right at the infielders and made for an easy out.
The first three games of the season have been on the road. This Wednesday night we get to have our first home game which means about 30 minutes less driving and an opportunity to get home before 10:00. Hopefully, they can put the home field advantage to use as they play the same team as Monday night.
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