Spring Baseball

Tonight, the Rebels had their third baseball game.  They lost 8-10 but it was a really close game.  The boys did much better out in the field.  However, the other team had better hitters.  The game had a delayed start because of the rain so this might have had something to do with Collin being more tired and seemingly disinterested.  This did not affect his first "at bat".  He waited to select the right pitch and hit it to center field.  He got another RBI for the team which is his usual. 

He is letting me know where he is in the batting order.  He was 11 tonight.

The tallest and the shortest player.  Guess which one is Collin?

First at bat

After the first pitch.  There he goes!!!

Here is a video of him running from 2nd to 3rd.  See how the 3rd base Coach is running with him to home to push him.  This is his Head Coach from the Lugnuts so he knows what Collin can do and could tell that he was not focused tonight.

He struck out at his next at bat which was 40 minutes later.  He did get to play in the field more this time.  He played Right Field the first time (no action for him) and then Left Field the next two times.  Otherwise, he was in the dugout.  The times he was in Left Field, he had to field three balls.  He let one pass him but he hustled to get it and had a good throw to 2nd base.  The next two times, he did stop the ball but acted disinterested when he got it and took his time to decide where to throw it.  He later said it was because he did not know what to do with the ball.  Coach and Daddy were telling him what to do.  I think he was just tired.

He looks so old!

We have another game tomorrow night.  So, we came home to have dinner, shower and then Collin went to bed.  He was mad we made him go to bed but he was asleep within 5 minutes.  Guess he really was tired.