Baseball!

After 14 years of watching Alex play soccer and basketball and about 10 years of playing soccer and a few years of basketball himself, Sam decided to try a little baseball and swimming.  He started swimming this past Fall and joined the team that had a couple of years together and did pretty well for his 1st year out.

He actually started playing baseball last year as it was the 1st year JPII had ever had a baseball team, unfortunately as it turns out they didn’t have enough players to actually compete in a game.  This year they just barely had enough players, but not necessarily enough of the right players (definitely not enough pitchers).  They have been playing away games for about a month now and unfortunately have yet to win a game.  This is probably to be expected since everyone has about the same level of experience and years playing as Sam.  We got to see our first game on Friday as the team played their first ever home game at the new sports complex.  The field was done and in pretty good shape, but there was still a lot of construction work going on – including no concession stand, only one set of bleachers and lots of dirt everywhere.  The team lost another not so close game (10 run rule was invoked in the 7th inning), but they all gave their best effort and looked really good in their uniforms.