First Practice - Summer Baseball

Crack! The ball hits the bat. Today was the start and finish of my baseball season. Impossible, you think. No, it's not. It's the beginning of my summer team and end of my spring team. In our baseball practice we had different stations. The first station I had we had to hit the ball on a stick. Coach B was the coach that was holding the stick for me. He was wiggling the stick one or two times.

The second station was where a coach threw the ball up in the air about my waist level and we had to hit it and the other kids who weren't up to bat had to field my balls that were hit to them. I bet I hit a home run in practice.

Next, we went to the next station where my dad was actually standing on the pitcher's mound and throwing hard baseballs about 40 mph. One time he hit me right in the butt! I was the only one he hit in practice. When I was fielding balls, Nolan hit a pop fly that I dove and caught barely. I even got a snow cone. Not one that you eat, just you catch the ball in the tip of your glove and you can see the ball peeking over the top of your glove!

The next station was we had to practice catching pop flies and throwing them back to a coach. Then we went to a different station and practiced fielding a ball and making the right plays. I played second and first base when we were at that station.

Finally, we went to the last station. It was pitching. I love pitching! I threw 6 strikes out of 8 pitches! So that means that I only threw 2 balls, and I think throwing 6 strikes and 2 balls out of 8 pitches is pretty good for a kid that has never pitched in a game before.

P.S. Baseball is awesome to me!