Rays fall baseball: 1st season of coaches pitch!

Nico couldn't wait to play coaches pitch this fall. He has been hitting pitched balls to him for a few years now whenever we've played around in the backyard, and now it's his time to do it for real! When he wasn't hitting our wiffle balls (and he's to the point now that we can't even play in the backyard, because he just hits them all over the fence...), he was down the street frequently at Home Run House. They had a $5 "hit night" every Friday that he loved going to, and of course, Coach Daddy took him up there to rent cages too.

Coach here would take 20 minutes to make his lineup and have the scorebook ready. ;) Not competitive or anything.

They had a great season and won every regular season game (about 15 of them) but ran out of gas in the playoffs! They learned a lot, had fun, and David achieved his goal of having every kid wanting to continue playing baseball another season beyond this one.

Nico had the best time and played with 4 of his buddies from the tball All Star team. (David still isn't sure how he pulled that off in the draft to keep them all together.) Nico mainly played 2nd base but was rotated a little to other infield positions too. He really improved on defense with his ability to catch balls in the air.

I'm only slightly biased, but I think he was the best and most consistent hitter in the league...and he was 1-2 years younger than everyone! This is a typical Nico shot to the outfield. He may have only gotten out a few times all season long.

He had a number of fans come out for his games, including Papa and Grandma for opening weekend!

 

 

Grandma and Grandpa made a handful of the games to cheer him on.

 

Great Granny Phyll made it to a few games and kept saying, "I really think this kid has a future in baseball." Ha.

 

 

Proud of these two. It was a fun season to watch.