Kid Pitch Baseball

Rylan is playing kid pitch baseball this season!  It is his first year of it (and Carter's second).  The boys are actually in the same league (9-10 year old) but on different teams.  They both have good friends on their own teams and we didn't want to take either away from them for our convenience (though, it would make Saturdays a lot easier!).

Rylan's very first game was against Carter's team (eek!).  Carter's team easily "won" the game (though we don't keep score in the fall).  However, Rylan's team did really well.  The pitchers threw pitches that Carter's team hit (instead of being walked most of the game) and they had some great fielding opportunities.

On Tuesday Rylan pitched for the first time. 

He was the starting pitcher for this team.  Carter was playing at the same time on the next field and I was scoring his game.  But I was able to still see some of Rylan's pitches and get a video and a few pictures.

Rylan did GREAT!  He walked the first batter but then struck out the next three batters in the first inning!  In the second inning, Rylan struck out one, walked two, and had two kids get hits off of him.  Brian is trying to keep the kids to about 35 pitches a game so that was the end of Rylan's pitching for the game.  But he did so well!  We are so proud of him!

And he even earned himself this ...

Carter and Rylan play each other again next Thursday!