Baseball Season

This year Alex moved up to the Majors, and ended up being the youngest (by a day) and the smallest (by a pound or two) kid on his team. They concluded the regular season with a 1-14 record.






He's been playing second base, and left- and center field. He's pulled off a spectacular catch or two, and has a good long throw. Due to his size he has a small strike zone, and is often walked to first. He only had one actual on-base hit this season. His other hits were fielded, thrown out at first, or inning ended (other runner out) before making it to first. But he was walked there many times, and brought home some runs.


All throughout the season you could hear his little voice piping out that he could pitch, and wondering if coach would try him out on the mound. Baseball politics gives the mound to older, bigger kids. Alex was way down the list for potential pitchers. Our second-to-last game was a forfeit (we didn't have enough players show, but opted to play for practice) so coach let him take the mound in the fifth inning. Alex struck out two. Our last game Alex pitched the last three (out of five) innings. Seven more strike-outs. I think he may have gone up a notch or two in some people's estimations.

During one game Alex, who is small for ten, got to share first base with Brandon, who is big for twelve.