Our first game was great. The kids were on the ball and really swinging the bat!
We now officially have 19 players—that’s outrageous, and only one didn’t show up last night. Imagine 18 fielders (without a catcher). We had at least 2 players at every position.
By the numbers
We scored 6 runs on 11 hits with 3 walks. That’s a .733 team batting average! We had 2 fly outs and 2 thrown out at first. All the hits were singles except Maria’s double to end the game (she’s signed up and officially on the team).
In the field we made a lot of nice plays (I didn’t score for the other team), including a double play. The double play was a fly out to our left fielder (well, one of our left fielders) Caleb who threw it to Ben covering second to double off the runner. I was very impressed. Unfortunately in the bottom of the inning, they got a triple play similarly. It was the first game and we haven’t covered base running and tagging up, so we let the kids stay on the bases once they went back.
Thursday we’ll split the team up at practice and work on running the bases in some tiny baseball [see glossary].
