Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Of course I can’t talk about baseball without recognizing my ballpark baby! The best sport around! She was also my videographer this year recording each one of the boys’ hits!
Of course, bringing a friend with you to the ballpark is even better!
Now it’s time for these baseball players to go watch some soccer!
Love them all!
Spencer had an all around fantastic season of rec baseball this year! I really liked his coaches and he had some fun teammates that all did their part. They had an interesting season with 3 wins, 3 losses, and 4 ties. Yes, 4 ties! I don’t know if we’ve ever had a tie in baseball before but we had 4 this season. I guess that just means the teams were pretty evenly matched.
This was a particularly early 8am game on a freezing morning!
Spencer also played catcher some.
Spencer got to pitch a decent amount and proved himself to be a fantastic pitcher. All those hours spent at Dbat this fall really paid off! His batting was excellent as well. He’s really good at reading the pitch and knowing when not to swing – and when to go for it! He played 3rd base most season and made some good plays.
I wasn’t sure about this team at the beginning of the season, but they all steadily improved and hit their stride just in time for the tournament where they turned it up!! The coaches went all in to put our best foot forward and moved Spencer to first base where he showed up and showed out!! He made some incredible, down on one knee, toe on bag, stretch it out catches for several outs at first. I was so proud of him for being flexible (literally and figuratively!) and able to play wherever they needed him.
They easily won the first two games in the tournament – they beat the Giants 4-10 in the first round and then shut out the White Sox 11-0 in the second round. They then had to face the 1st seated Braves in the championship game. The Yankees saved their best playing for the main stage. Graham pitched the entire game and had a 70% strike rate. Spencer played first and made some unbelievable catches. They only gave up 1 run and then won it all on a huge hit by Will that knocked enough runners in to win the game 7-1! Pretty exciting!!
4th Grade World Series Champs!! (Fun fact – Maxwell won the World Series his 4th grade year too!)
Coach Blackmon, Elliott, Graham, Whit, Spencer, Will, Rex, Nabers, Tinnon, Moss, Grayson, Coach Russell and Coach Baker
I’m just so proud of Spencer. He keeps showing up and putting in the work. It’s paying off and I hope he continues to be recognized for the athlete he is. But, even better than that is seeing him recognized for the kid he is. Two different adults came up to me after the game to tell me what a good kid Spencer is and how encouraging he was to their son all season. That’s better than any championship trophy!
What a kid! What a team! What a season! Now on to summer ball!!
After so many nights and weekends spent watching Maxwell play, his rec baseball career has come to an end. What fun it has been to watch him play and improve so much since his first t-ball season in 2016! He’s a great baseball player and I really hope he sticks with it and plays at the Junior High next year.
This year was fun because Robert was able to put together a team of all 6th graders which included several of Maxwell’s buddies. This was a team of really good kids and they had fun playing together. Maxwell was a leader on the team and proved himself game after game to be a valuable member of the team. Along with Pryor, he was our best pitcher and I’d say he was definitely our best catcher.
I just really love to watch him play. His awareness on the field is superb and he knows where the play is at all times. GJ loves to watch him play too!
It wasn’t easy for Robert to make it work to coach – it’s a huge time commitment – but I think he’d agree when I say it was the very best time commitment he could have made this spring. I hope Maxwell always remembers these last two years of baseball with Dad as coach. I’m so proud of both of them.
The team ended up about in the middle of the pack with some great wins…including in the first round of the tournament when Luke hit a single homerun over the fence to win the game! Pretty exciting!!
A great season for a great kid.
I’m so proud of you Maxwell!
Take a trip down rec baseball memory lane…
Preschool T-Ball A’s here.
Kindergarten Cardinals here.
First grade Pirates here.
2nd grade fall ball Dodgers here.
2nd grade Orioles here and here.
3rd grade fall Cardinals here. (apparently I never posted these photos in 2019 so just made this post now!)
5th grade Spartan Gray here.
Spencer participated in the elementary track meet where all four Mountain Brook elementary schools competed against each other. Spencer did awesome!
He ended up:
11th out of 56 in the long jump
19th out of 48 in the 400 meter
13th out of 58 in the 100 meter
Go Spencer go!
I posted earlier about Spencer’s OTM basketball team but didn’t have a great team picture. Well, they had their team party on Saturday and look what I got…
a team picture! Love this team. Go Magic!