Game Ball

Carter had baseball games both Monday and Tuesday nights this week.  He did great in both.  I only saw about half of the game on Monday because I had to go to Rylan's preschool orientation.  But I saw all of last night's game (Brian missed it because he had to coach Rylan's soccer practice).

Carter played first base the first inning.  He got three outs at first!  In this league they don't play outs to end an inning - each team bats through their lineup.  The first out Carter got was when Jack Henry fielded the ball at pitcher and threw it to Carter.  For the second two outs, Carter fielded the ball and tagged the bag.  One of those outs was one of Carter's new classmates.  Carter and Max had already talked about baseball at lunch supposedly and were excited to be playing against one another.

In the second inning Carter played right-center field.  Coach Jeff switches the players around a lot and tries to give each kid an opportunity to play in the infield each game.  Playing outfield didn't stop Carter from getting more outs on his own!  He backed up the second baseman and fielded two balls that were missed.  He ran both balls to second and tagged the bag to get two more outs!

Carter also got base hits his two times up at bat.  The first one was a grounder to the second baseman and the second was a hit over the pitcher's head.  Since Carter was the last batter each inning, he got to run the bases for a "homerun" each time.

After each game, Coach Jeff gives one player a game ball.  Last night Carter got the game ball because of his five outs, good hits, general hustle, and good attitude.

Excuse the lack of shirt ... I collected shirts after the game to get the kids' names put on them today :)

Carter is super proud of his game ball.  He added it to the set of three he got last season!