Another Victory
June 3, 2008
Tonight was another baseball game for Sean’s team. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it. It’s only the second game this year I have missed. Still, the boys were victorious, pulling off another lopsided victory by the score of 16-2.
This win runs their record up to 14 – 1. They are supposed to have 2 games left, but have decided to add another game tomorrow night. This new game will be an extremely hard one for them to win. They are going to play an older, regional traveling team.
For Sean’s age group, the games are usually 6 innings with a 10 run mercy rule after 4 innings. Tomorrow, no matter what, the game will go 9 innings. It will definitely be a challenge for our team to put consistent pitching together for that length of game that they aren’t used to. The whole purpose of the game is to help get the kids ready for the state tournament.
Unfortunately, it looks like we will be out of town on vacation in Michigan at a family reunion during the start of the state tourney. Because Sean will miss the first two or three games, it looks like he will be ineligible to compete in the tourney. The team is upset too because he is there starting catcher and they could certainly use him.
Sean also had to miss the state tournament last year because of vacation plans. We purposely moved our vacation plans around this year so he could play, but the state move the start date of the tournament around too. It’s okay, he’s not too upset. He is more happy to be going to Michigan and getting to spend some time with his cousins and other family members he doesn’t get to see enough.
I will have a report on the game, but I am not too hopeful. Maybe the kids can surprise me tomorrow night.
Two More Wins For Baseball Team
May 20, 2008
Sean’s baseball team had a couple of games the last two nights and came away victorious both nights to run their season record to 11 – 1.
Last night, in a game score more reminiscent of a football game, Sean’s team won the game going away by a score of 28 – 2. Nope, that’s not a typo. In four innings, they scored 28 runs. The scored 19 runs in the 2nd inning alone. During that inning Sean batted three times alone. And they did it with almost no walks. The boys were just smacking the ball all over the field. The other team did contribute a few errors, but the kids were just sharp with the bats. It was a hard game to watch even though we won.
Tonight, in a game finally at home, the kids bats came alive once again, though nothing like last night. They once again mercy rules the other team in four innings by a score of 12 – 2. They even hit two home runs over the fence tonight.
Sean continues to improve his hitting getting multiple hits in each game. They are usually the single or double variety as he doesn’t really hit for much power. He has also clearly earned the full time catching job and now catches the whole game. Sean joined this team for the first time this year and hey came into the season with three catchers. During practices, they pretty much narrowed it down to two and they shared time during the first games of the season. Now, Sean catches the whole game and continues to improve each game.
We actually get a break of about 9 days now without a game. It will be nice to not have to drive a long ways to a game for a while.
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