Play BALL!!

Much to everyone's excitement, especially Jake, baseball games started this past Monday!
The first one started at 7:15pm, so it got dark and chilly.
This picture, of Jake in his uniform, was taken before the Thursday game (they have two games per week).
Much warmer and sunnier and I could actually take pictures.

Logan took this shot of the bats - he thought they were pretty cool hooked into the fence like that.

Here they are listening to the batting order - first game.

But maybe we do like later games - the sun can cause problems.

They run through the batting order about three times during the game, which is great.
Here is Jake at bat.

They will sometimes move the boys around in field positions, but the last game Jake stayed out in right field.

At this age and skill level, if your team can hit, you'll get some RBIs - fielding isn't really strong yet. Jake's team won their first game 12-3 (his team was better at hitting), they lost their second game 7-12 (both teams good at hitting, the opposing team had some stronger hitters that got it out of the infield more often).
In the first game Jake hit a home run (the video below) - the ball was thrown, or I should say overthrown, to many parts of the field, allowing him to round the bases.
Totally exciting!

We are looking forward to the rest of the season!