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May 14, 2016 May 14, 2016 by Papa
I spent a bone-chilling evening outside last evening watching my son, Carter, play baseball. The temperature dropped down to the lower 40s but the windspeed picked up as the night went on. There were a handful of parents from our team in attendance and the home team from Burnsville was absent any parents who were not coaches for the team. There was a lot of complaining about the weather from our team’s parent — justifiably so. The ball team was not immune to the low temperatures either. Carter caught the th
In spite of the hurdles created by the weather, Carter played a very good game. He caught the first three innings with only a couple of passed balls (wild pitches in my humble opinion) and several good attempts at throwing out base runners. He had three plate appearances. The first was a hard hit ball to the backhand side of the short stop who made a great defensive play to range to the ball and throw out Carter by a step at first. The second at bat was a 2-1 fastball that Carter drove to left center result
The Personal Landing Page for Dave Schlottman
Quawkle – The musings of an affable curmudgeon.