Her First Baseball Game

Princess had her first baseball game today and had a BLAST! She was a little nervous because she thought she’d be the only girl and she hadn’t had a practice . . . she said she didn’t want to play until she had 2 practices I told her she was playing today without practicing. She was happy there was another girl on the team, and she DID have the pinkest bat on the PLANET to play with!

And yes, she did hit the ball and get on base She was a bit nervous about batting . . . they play combo pitch where the coach pitches 4 pitches - if the kids don’t hit it, then they put it on the tee for them. She was SOOOO excited she didn’t need the tee

She actually did really well! I think it was because she hadn’t played before, so she had to listen to her coaches tell her what to do. She ran all the way around the bases and scored and was happy as a clam

She was also happy that she got to play pitcher her first time out there . . . she didn’t get a lot of balls hit at her in her first game as a Giant, but when she did, she fielded it cleanly, wound up as much as any teeny tiny little girl could, and threw it right to 1st base! The First baseman caught it on one bounce and they got the out - woo hoo!!!

Isn’t she the cutest little giant you’ve ever seen?! In the next inning, she got to play left field . . . she didn’t get any balls hit to her - I was amazed she was actually paying attention instead of picking dandelions They were all soooooo cute - it was much more fun to watch than I thought it would be.

So her first game was a success, and she has proudly declared baseball as her favorite sport, followed by snow skiing and soccer.

Being an ex-competetive softball player, I was happy as a clam to see baseball rise to the top of her list above playing with Barbies and shopping for pink things