Baseball Days

Not much to blog about lately, so I'll just update Tyler's baseball stats. In Monday night's game he was two-for-two with two triples; in light of Tyler's recent back-to-back home runs, one of the dads jokingly said to Randy, "Hmmm, Tyler must be feeling a little off tonight. He only got two triples!" In last night's game he hit a line drive hard enough to be a triple but the runner in front of him wasn't fast enough so he got held up at second base. And then, I am very sorry to say, in his last at-bat he struck out. He had the unfortunate luck to be the first batter against a brand-new pitcher, and this kid was pitching FAST. Obviously, Tyler is going to have to get used to batting against stronger pitchers but, the truth be told, at this level this is really only the second kid we've seen with that kind of speed. Tyler made a valiant attempt but was denied this time.

He has already had a couple of opportunities to pitch this season, but I think I've mentioned before that since this is the Parks and Rec league, if you want a chance to pitch (or play any other position, for that matter) you get it. Not always great for the team, but I know that if I wanted my kid to have a shot to pitch or catch or whatever and felt like he was being passed over, I wouldn't feel very good. Anyway, if that policy weren't in place I think Tyler would have had many more opportunities to pitch this season. He has really come a long way. He came in as a relief pitcher last night to help our other pitcher out of a jam and he did great, as always. There were no outs and the bases were loaded, and Tyler didn't allow any runs. Whoo-hoo!