Category Archives: Mr. Boy

They kept striking out. There was also the spectacle of four players converging to catch a pop fly before it fell on the ground. So they lost to the Lookouts, 5-0. Mr. B. did stop a grounder before it added to the score. That’s three losses for the season so far.

The Scrappers lost the kid-pitch exhibition game to the Lookouts, 8-3, but Mr. B. got the game ball for a timely catch of a pop fly while playing shortstop. He also got a good hit and two called strikes when he was pitching for the first time. Some of the kid pitchers were quite good, throwing called strikes over and over again. Bright, warm and windy day. I got sunburned.

The Scrappers’ 23-run winning game Wednesday might be the last high scoring one now that kids are replacing the coaches at pitching. Mr. Boy did well in practice pitching, so may get a chance at it in tomorrow afternoon’s game. He even survived getting hit in the back yesterday by another kid pitcher while batting in practice, though he cried a little. The kid pitchers are a little wild and they’re throwing as hard as they can to get the ball over the plate. Which is why I think the high-scoring games are over. Now the challenge is for the hitters to stay in the box and swing. Several yesterday were antsy, stepping backward every time a kid pitcher delivered. Going to be interesting.

The gang got beat pretty good yesterday, losing to Thunder 14-7. Mr. B. struck out twice and grounded out once. It was pretty sloppy on defense, too. At one point it seemed the whole team was trying to cover second base, but nobody could find the ball. Ah, well, the travails of eight year olds.