Well only three weeks before a tournament and we have practice about every day before it. Let’s see how it goes. Things I want to focus on are strength and conditioning — I think three weeks we can see real improvements in 13 year olds and I want to...
This could be a whole series. I volunteer every now and then to keep score and watch little league all star games. Some thoughts after one I just watched. One pitcher walked the first two batters. He was excited. You just can’t start that way — work with...
Postseason baseball is one of the best classrooms kids will ever experience. The pressure, excitement, mistakes, momentum swings, and emotional highs and lows force young players to learn something far bigger than baseball: resilience. In youth sports, momentum can...
And so it was at a game this week, we had a one-run lead going into the last inning. The home team gets a runner on third with one out. We brought the infield in and the next batter grounds out and the last batter strikes out and we win. But it is interesting to think...
So happy to get on a baseball field today after the long layoff from the end of the season in the Spring. I’m an assistant in our “Majors” and I think on a team of 11 I know a bunch — some of them I had years ago and now here they are all grown up. So I...
And so it was I was in a close game and the bases were loaded and our head coach was going out to the mound to talk to the pitcher about calming down and throwing strikes and that was all fine. Then we yelled out to the first baseman to be ready for a home to first...
