X's Baseball Season

Xander was so excited for baseball this year! Unfortunately he struggled for the first part of the season but so did the rest of his team. We lovingly called his Rockies team the Bad News Bears. They had a lot of younger players and they all tried really hard but they ended up losing most of their games.
 Xander played positions all over the field and made plenty of good plays and catches.

It was hitting that gave him problems. However, about half way through the season, after several early Saturday morning practice sessions with me or David, he started getting his groove back and started connecting with the ball.

It's much more fun to get a nice hit to get on base than just being walked. But hey, however one can get on base is great, right?

He even got a few good slides in.

He always loved playing up at the Cal Ripken fields; they are pretty nice but quite the drive to get there!

My cute baseball player!

This season his coach also had him pitch almost every game. He did a great job and was able to strike out a bunch of players throughout the season.

His best game of the season included 2 innings of pitching with 4 strike outs, an out catching a line drive that came straight to the pitcher's mound and then throwing the ball to first base for another out of the player that had started running to 2nd and didn't get back to 1st in time, and another throw out to 1st. He was literally responsible for 5 of the 6 outs in 2 innings. Plus, on offense he drove in several runs off of 3 great hits.

In the playoffs his team ended up losing which really bummed Xander out. Oh, well, we'll just look forward to next year!