Baseball Season 2015

Brody in Minors

     Brody's team had a tough Baseball season this year. haha. First of all, all the kids (except) Brody were first year minors and very new to the game. As a team we won 1 game, tied 1 game and lost the rest of them. This was tough for Brody because when he played minors last year we didn't loose a game all year. It didn't help things that right before the first game of the season, one of our best players broke his foot long jumping in gym class. He wasn't able to play the whole season.


     In some ways this was good for Brody because he had to be the "Stud" of the team. He was one of my main pitchers and played some of the most important positions in the infield (1st, Short and Catch). He had a few inside the park Home Runs this year. He hit the ball really well and rarely struck out. He improved so much during the baseball season. He was always willing to work hard and listen to advice on how to get better.

     He tried out for the South Chief All Star team last week, but we still haven't heard back from the coach on whether he made the team or not. Brody loves to play and is always asking me to go in the back yard and play catch. He will be a great ball playing as he grows older.

     Brody has another try out for the All Star team this week, so we will update what happens.

Haydn in Majors

     Haydn had a great Majors team this year. We only had 1 team so I didn't have to split up any of the good players this year. We had a great regular season, winning 6 and loosing 2. We went into playoffs as the #1 team in the league, and the team everyone wanted to beat. Haydn had a great season this year at the plate. He hardly ever struck out and always seemed to get his bat on the ball. He played 1st base most of the season and really seemed to shine there.




   We had a Crazy semi-final game against one of the Magrath teams. Magrath was pitching there best pitcher (who was one of the best pitchers in the league as well). We gave up 3 runs in the top of the first, but then battled back in the bottom of the first and scored 3 runs. We gave up 2 more runs the next inning so the score was 5-3. The score stayed this way until the 6th inning. In the top of the 6th, Magrath had the top of their order and their 3 best hitters. We were able to get them out 1,2,3 and had the bottom of the last inning to score 2 and tie or score 3 and win.

      We had the top of our order starting off our last at bat. Graedon Woodward was able to get on and came around to score on a wild pitch. The next 2 batters got out. So we had 2 outs, no one on base and we were down by 1 run. The next batter was McCoy Duce and he was able to hit a single and get on base. He was able to steal 2nd and 3rd base. Then Haydn was up. Magrath had to go to a new pitcher because he had reached his pitch count. At first I told Haydn to look for a ball right down the middle, but then as I was watching the new pitcher warm up you could tell that he was very nervous to be pitvhing in such a big moment. I told Haydn not to swing until he was thrown a strike. Haydn took 4 straight balls and walked to first. So, we had the tying run on 3rd and the winning run on 1st base. Levi Bennett was up next and he took the first pitch he saw and crushed it over the center fielders head and Haydn came all the way around from first to win the game.

     The championship did not have such a great ending. We took an early 3-0 lead, but then couldn't stop them from hitting the gaps and we lost 8-3. The boys played hard and were all upset to loose the big game. I was very proud of the boys and how well they played all season.

   

Tyson and Tball

     Tyson had his 2nd year of Tball this year, and it was just as exciting as last year!!! Keeping these kids focused on baseball was almost impossible, especially when we played on a diamond with an all shale infield. He had a lot of fun teaching Tyson the game and seeing his eyes light up when he would hit the ball.

Ladies Tourney and Cranbrook

     Kristi had her final tourney in her women's softball league on the weekend and they won the whole thing. They had to beat won of the best teams in the league in the championship. Kristi said the team played well and that she hit the ball well and played a mean 1st base.

     I had a tourney in Cranbrook the same weekend so I was not able to watch Kristi play. I took Brody with me to Cranbrook. We had a great tourney and we ended up winning the Intermediate "B" side championship. We had one game that we had to play at midnight and it was a blast. We had to go into extra innings and we won 12-10. I only went out 3 times in all our games and I hit great all tourney.