Baseball - Spring 2011

I found the perfect song for this post and for some reason my music won't start when you open the blog!  So scroll to the bottom and hit play.  Then you can read this!  HA!

Matt and the rest of the family are so sad that baseball season is over!!  We had a fun year!! 

This year we played with a league here in Humble.  It was coach pitch and Joel decided he was going to coach.  It was a draft so we were lucky to get picked on Joel's team.  Dad decided to help and we were all set to go!  We were the Diamondbacks and we met a whole group of new friends! Matt was Lucky 7 baby!

Matt did so well that we tried to get everyone to come up and watch!  Grandpa drove up from SA several times just for the game.  And even cousin Tim came to watch too!

Matt did really well!  He played short stop most games.  He only struck out a few times all season and the first time he did, he held back his tears and hustled right back to the dugout.  We couldn't have been more proud. 

I forced myself to take a few videos.  Sorry you will get sea sick watching these.  Look at how focused he is!  Matt wasn't the best on his team but there wasn't a kid that tried harder. Coach Dan nicknamed him 110.  We nicknamed him "Tucker" because he is ALWAYS tucking in his shirt.  One of the Dad's said Matt was the only kid on the field who had every part of his uniform in the right spot...even the dirt!  Matt doesn't like Tucker so I guess it might not stick!

The kids learned a ton this year.  Coach Joel did great teaching them fundamentals and Dad worked with Matt a lot.  He made some great plays, caught a pop up and scored at almost every at bat.  Honestly I embarrassed myself.  I couldn't stop yelling at the games.  It was all positive but I couldn't stand to keep quiet which made taking a video extremely difficult!! Our team ended up 7-5 which was great.  3 of those games we lost by 1 run and probably should have won them.  The kids wanted to know the score at all times and wanted to win.  I didn't realize they had such a fire at this age.

Matt, we couldn't be more proud of you!  And I couldn't be more thankful to have such a wonderful Coach, and wonderful Dad and wonderful parents and kids to be around! You can see a few more pics in the slide show!