Max pitched again on Wednesday’s game (5/18/2011) against the Mudcats. He pitched for a full 2 innings, as the closer, delivering 47 pitches. He struck out 5 batters and didn’t allow any runs.
The Bulls won the game 6-4. With only 3 games left in the season, we are tied for 1st place, I think.
P.S. The camera on my phone is a piece of junk. I hope to have some better pictures if he pitches on Saturday.
Because he didn’t feel like trying to move his hand to his chest, like we’ve been showing him in sign language for 3 months…
But – hey – we’ll take it! 🙂
It rained last night. We are using a borrowed tent, and I didn’t put up the rain fly. Big mistake. I already don’t like the sound of rain, and now I have another reason not to like it. Wet tent, wet sleeping bag, wet shoes, wet pillow. But I can smell bacon cooking for breakfast, so all is not too bad.
Spending Saturday afternoon at Arroyo Hondo Nature Preserve. We had an archery demonstration and a boomerang clinic. Then we walked down to the beach through a tunnel that was built under the freeway to allow the steel head trout to get upstream.
Near the beach there were 2 geocaches, so some boys and I climbed up to the top of a couple of bridges and the boys threw rocks down while I hunted for the geocaches. I found the first one and before walking the 1000 ft. to the next one, I told the boys not to play on the railroad tracks. I told them that all gravel was off limits. About 90 seconds later, a train came barreling down the tracks. Whew! Since there were no crossings near, the train didn’t blow the whistle, and I didn’t hear it until it was very, very close.
Dinner is tri-tip and hotdogs and stew. Good stuff.
Can you spot the boys in the trestles?
When not at climbing, the boys were swinging
The best part of camping, the food!
Max is really enjoying playing baseball this season. He is in the Minor ‘A’ league, on the Durham Bulls (a minor league of MLB).
He prefers playing 1st base. The coach also puts him in left field because Max has the speed to chase fly balls. He has made some tremendous defensive plays and has been awarded 3 ‘game’ balls this season.
This past Saturday, Max tried something new. The coach asked him to start off the game in the position of pitcher. Max had never pitched in a game before, but has been throwing balls into a piece of plywood in the yard for a while.
In the first inning, Max got 2 strikeouts and had 1 run scored on 13 pitches. He did so well that the coach had him pitch for the second inning as well. In the second inning, he struck out 1 batter and held the opposing team scoreless in 21 pitches.
The coach’s original intent was (and continues to be) to give each boy who wants a chance to pitch for at least 1 inning. Max exceeded expectations, and so I think the coach might add Max to the pitching rotation. The coach really likes the idea of having a left-handed pitcher.