Ben Baseball

Ben just finished a season of baseball with his friends for the past two months or so. This was his first time with machine pitch, and he started out the season hitting strong.

He hit a batting slump though a few weeks ago and kept striking out, game after game. We kept working with him, and I wonder if he just got too much advice (Hold the bat higher! Hold the bat lower! etc). But his second-to-last game he got a hit each time he was up (4 for 4), and therefore won a small Lego kit as a prize.

He is a hustler, though. I admire how much he always is trying hard. He pays attention, he follows the ball, he runs for the ball in the field and throws hard and does everything he can to catch others' throws when he plays first base. 

Daddy was a good fielding coach, too. He would be blogging this differently from his perspective out in the field game after game with all those 7 and 8-year-olds. Let us just say some of them did not pay sufficient attention to the game.

James spent a lot of time watching through the fence.

I'm pretty sure that is Andrew in the background picking his nose. He would run around with other players' siblings his age and really enjoyed himself. 

Max is the best big brother. He really helped me keep an eye on the littles. Especially because one field had a creek nearby, and another field was close to a fairly busy parking lot.