Baseball Season is Back

Baseball season is back in full swing! The only difference between this year and the last two years is that Bryce is elected to play too! Austin plays in the "Minors" and Bryce plays in "Farm"; this is decided by age. The only difference is that Bryce plays all of his games at our home field against other teams in our league and Austin plays all the other Minor teams in Lubbock and the surrounding area. While this is a fun, new experience for Austin it can at times be somewhat problematic when Bryce plays at the same time or anywhere near the same time at a different field. Another change this year is our new fields... the old fields where a rock throw out our back door - the new ones have been built on FM1585 and Milwaukee... for those of you reading this who might be unfamiliar with Lubbock, that is no where near home - a 15 minutes drive and a dirt road. On the bright side... the fields and facilities are very nice (most important being the facilities)!

Austin's team is as you will see the Yankees (yes, I know... Roy has already expressed his displeasure in spending his money on anything Yankees) and Bryce's team is the Indians. They have both already had several games, but this is the first one where the weather would allow me to stick my head outside the blanket and take a few photos. This is one year that I am VERY ready for the freezing wind to go bye-bye. I say all that to say that photos of Bryce will be coming - although I must warn you, Austin's are more fun... Bryce does an awful lot of bird watching... and grass watching... and well, you get the picture.

Austin started the game on third base

On this "at bat" he smacked it almost to the fence in left field... unfortunatley the left fielder was there to catch it - I was so hoping he was the same kind of left fielder that Bryce is, but he actually pays attention :).


I think Bryce was pretty smart to not play ball for the last two years... this is the kind of company he finds himself in when not playing.

Later in the game Austin was moved to first base.

Then to pitcher. This caused me to panic since he hasn't practiced at all to my knowledge and hasn't pitched since last year. However, he did GREAT! He threw mostly strikes and only walked one batter while he was on the mound. He got pretty shaken up when his second batter got hit in the back of the neck - but the silly kid stepped into the pitch and then turned rather than stepping out to avoid getting hit.

After pitcher he was moved to short stop... had the game gone longer he might have had a chance to play second and catcher in which case he would've played the whole infield in one game. Oh well, there's always next time :).