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!
Sean’s Team Loses Again
April 10, 2009
Game #2 of Sean’s baseball season is in the books. Like the first game, this one was another defeat. This time, the boys lost by a score of 10 – 3. It was a rather odd game to have to sit through and watch.
If I remember correctly, the pitchers on Sean’s team limited the opposition to 1 hit. Yes, 1 hit – okay, maybe I missed one and it was two. You know what that means – lots and lots of walks and stolen bases and keystone cops type playing. It was extremely painful to watch. In addition, Sean’s team scored all 3 of their runs in the last inning.
For some odd reason, Sean was tagged to play first base this game. Some other kid begged the coach to let him catch and he relented (and he actually didn’t do bad). Sean got real nervous because he has played first base exactly zero times in his life. I gave him about 2 minutes of instruction before he took the field. Luckily, perhaps, there wasn’t a single play at first the whole game except for the two grounders to him that he flawlessly fielded and made the outs.
At bat, Sean went 2 for 2 with two solid singles to the outfield. He was stranded on base both times.
Watching four pitchers on the mound for Sean’s team throw wild pitch after wild pitch made for a very long game. Perhaps it was best Sean didn’t catch this game because the catcher got the workout of the century.
Two more games on tap for next week. Oh, have the first place team from last year back – maybe we should have done the traveling team this year, but Sean didn’t want to.
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