So Atticus was on the baseball team called Startown Landsharks this fall season. He has played baseball since he was about 4 or 5 and this was his first season in the kid pitch league. I think it is called Babe Ruth League 10U.
He has played with the same group of boys for about two years now. This past spring season which was machine pitch we had a pretty good team with a decent record. This fall has been brutal to the Startown Landsharks. For one reason or another the kids had a very difficult time focusing as a team while trying to get used to a human being pitching to them instead of a machine.
I don't even know what our record was but I do know that we didn't win a game all season. Our final game last night was absolutely brutal. We were up to bat first and went down 3 up 3 down. The bottom half of the first inning took about an hour and I lost count of how many batters were walked and the number of runs scored. We went through 3 pitchers in the first inning.
It has been on hell of a learning experience for the kids and the coaches did the best they could (I was labeled a coach and came to all the games that I could but my lack of baseball knowledge really doesn't qualify me to be a "coach") but it was a humiliating season. I just hope that some lessons were learned and that next season will be much better.
By the way, Atticus played 1st base and Pitcher. He walked many and hit at least two batters. Nevertheless he really enjoyed pitching and playing.
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