Sean’s Baseball Season In Full Swing
April 23, 2008
If its Spring time and we seem busy than usual, it must be baseball season. And it is in full swing. Sean wanted to play with some older and more capable kids this year so he is now playing in a neighboring city instead of Sonoita. When I say neighboring, keep in mind we live in very rural America. The city is 30 minutes away.
The busy schedule has him with practices on Monday evening. He then has games on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and on Saturday afternoon. This schedule keeps us hopping pretty good. The Tuesday and Thursday games are usually somewhat “local” and anywhere from 30 – 45 minutes from home. The Saturday games are as far as 90 minutes away.
So far this season, Sean’s team is off to a nice 3 – 1 start. After losing their opening game, they have run off three straight victories and are starting to come together as a team. The pitchers are finding starting to get their rhythm and the bats are starting to loosen up. With a planned 18 games this season, we still have quite a ways to go. The regular season is then followed by the playoffs and state tournament competition.
Once again, Sean is playing catcher this year. He is having a hot and cold season at the plate. He is hitting nicely, with a nice amount of doubles and triples. However, he also has some strikeouts against him as he is still learning to protect the plate with 2 strikes. He has taken too many called third strikes to suit me.
So if you are looking for us for the next couple months, we are likely at the ballpark. And just think, when baseball season ends, we get a short break before football season begins. Oh, and Savannah is still taking her dance classes five nights a week.
Sean Changes Baseball Teams
March 14, 2008
Sean has decided to change baseball teams this upcoming season. He is right on the age limit between what the baseball league terms minor and majors. He could play minors again this season, but it would be with a bunch of younger kids. So, he wants to play majors.
Unfortunately, our small little, rural community isn’t going to have enough kids to field a majors team this year. So instead, he will play majors with the Huachucha City team. He already plays football there since our town doesn’t have enough kids to field its own team either. Except for the distance issue, its a pretty good deal for him too. A bunch of the kids from his football team are also on the baseball team, so he knows a bunch of them.
He reported to the first practice last night and they asked if he could play catcher since their catcher from last year had moved away. Well, what do you know, that happens to be the position he plays. So every one is happy.
Huachucha City is about 20 – 25 minutes away from us so its a bit of a stretch on the coordination of getting him to practices and games, while still getting the girls to dance classes in Sierra Vista. Luckily, it is on the way to Sierra Vista. The games will be even further away for us though. Home games in Huachucha City will be the closest ones. The away games will be another 15 to 30 minutes further. Typically, they play one game during the week and one game on Saturdays. The week games, because of the distance, will be tough for me to make. I only made half of those last year.
Sean is excited and happy to be playing for the Huachucha city team now.
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