Baseball Season

My Favorite Baseball Players

Another year of Little League has come and gone. Punky Girl played her last last year of tball and will move on to machine pitch softball next season. She is definitely ready and wants to be the catcher. Can you imagine any other position of for her? Here she is in her "gunfighter" position, waiting for the ball. She was on the Woodpeckers. We got a few laughs out of that team name.

OOPS! She missed but she tried hard. Look at that stretch.

Buckaroo was chosen for the All-Star team. I LOVE this picture I took of him.

He is an intense base runner and likes to antagonize the pitchers at little bit. There are no lead-offs in Little League but he doesn't return to the base right away just to make the pitchers think twice about him. In fact, in this game, he got the pitcher to throw at first base and Buckaroo ended up stealing second base on the play.

Take Me Out To the Ball Game!

This is the first year Punky Girl got to play ball, T-ball that is. She has had to sit and wait for three years watching her big brother play. FINALLY she got her turn "up to bat" and has never looked back. After the first practice, Punky Girl picked out the teammate she wanted to practice with because "he was the only one that could catch and throw" she wanted someone who could "really play" with her. I figured out Punky Girl thinks highly of her playing abilities. She doesn't suffer from a lack of self-esteem (no news flash there). She would walk around the fields like she was an eighteen year old B.M.O.C. struttin' his stuff. It was soooo funny to watch her swagger out there on the fields.

Would you doubt this face? She is here to play!

This is called "gungfighter position"--she has her guns out and ready to field the ball.

She just hit a "home run" out of the ball park--good thing a home run in tball means out of the infield. Although, give her a year and she will be really hitting out of the park.

Sliding was her favorite part. Do you notice the blue 'stache? That was permanent for about a month since she had one every game. Gatorade may help the athlete but it wreaks havoc on the athlete's upper lip.

Good Morning, Good Afternoon, Good Night

Buckaroo played up a division this year. This was a big step for him and. I was unsure if was really ready, but he kept saying he was. Well, he was right. The first time he took the mound, it was all business. I couldn't believe his composure on the mound. He took signs from his coach, i.e. dad, and has three different pitches. I didn't even know this about my own son. To me, they were just playing catch in the backyard. Well, I was wowed at his pitching. This pictures don't show it, but he is awesome!!! The team went 11-1 this season. Buckaroo struck out the first 6 batters he faced-he was the closer the first two games. Overall, he struck out 29 batters. Not too shabby. I think Mark Grace would say that is definitely "big league." Buckaroo's batting was great too. We could always count on him to get a hit. Although his size is not intimidating, his fastball is.

Taking signs from the coach.

See that tongue hanging out? It is a family trait. When he or Nimrod are doing something important, that tongue is hanging out.

How I love to watch him play. His passion for the game is amazing. I love to watch him be so in tune to what he is doing out there. Go "Young Guns!"