What a fantastic spring baseball season for Maxwell! The Orioles were a special group of kids with an awesome coach and I am so incredibly proud of how well they all played this year. They hustled, had great attitudes, and ended the season in 2nd place overall for regular season play. We made it through the first round of the tournament in a nail biter game beating the Red Sox by 1 run in the bottom of the sixth. Unfortunately we got beat in the semi-finals and couldn’t pull out a tournament win like we did for the Mid-Season Tournament but that’s ok. This team played great and I wish we could do it all again!

Maxwell has been working on his hitting with a batting coach and is making great contact with the ball. In one of the tournament games he almost got it to the fence! I see homeruns in his future! He played first base all season and owned it! He can stretch his body out to catch that ball and keep his foot on the base!! He had a few double plays, fantastic catches, and got the game ball more than once! I just love love love to watch him play!

Other skills gained this baseball season? Learning to blow a bubble! ha! Maxwell would chew bubblegum every game and perfected this skill between innings!

The most fun of it all? Making new friends and getting to hang out with a great group of boys.

Of course, Spencer and Samantha had plenty of opportunities to watch him play too! 🙂  They didn’t miss a game and are the very best baseball siblings!

Of course, the icees don’t hurt!

We had other visitors out to watch a game including Susan and Lulu…

I feel so fortunate that we got to play on this team with Coach Welden. I wish this team could stay together every year!

Go Orioles!! Also, please read this…

The sweetest…even if I was at all of those games too! 😉

It was a great season but all good things must come to an end…but not baseball! We’re on to play summer all stars! Go Spartans!

We had a FULL and FUN weekend of baseball last weekend! It started on Friday night with the first round of the mid-season tournament for Maxwell’s team. They played better than I’ve ever seen them play and dominated the other team. Woohoo!

That took us to the semi-final game on Saturday at 12:00. The rain cleared up just in time for a beautiful day at the ballpark! Maxwell was pumped up and ready to go with his eye black!

It was a tough game but these boys pulled out a huge win!! So so exciting! Maxwell made some fantastic plays at first, caught a pop fly, and hit like a pro. Woohoo! That meant they were going to the championship game at 3:00! Maxwell ate some chicken fingers and an Icee like every good baseball player does between games while watching the other semi-final game. It was a good one too because the only undefeated team in the league, the White Sox, got defeated by the Braves! The rest of us got to watch Spencer’s 2:00 game. I told you it was a day full of baseball!

Spencer played awesome. He hustles and nails that ball! He also got to play catcher this game and took his job very seriously!

Goooo Red Sox!

At 3:00 the chicken fingers had settled and Maxwell and the Orioles were ready to play for the championship against the Braves! Despite the other team hitting 2 over the fence home runs, the Orioles held on to win it at the bottom of the 6th with a score of 15-16! So so exciting! This team is such a good group of boys and they have worked so hard for this.

Goooo Orioles!

Still a lot of baseball left to play this year but this sure was a fun win!

We are full swing into the baseball season and loving it! Seems like that sweet little Cardinals team was just yesterday!

Maxwell is on the Orioles and is turning out to have a really strong team. Their first practice game of the year was a disaster so we weren’t sure how the season would go, but that must have been a fluke because they have played great ever since. Of course, turns out Maxwell had the flu that practice game so…that explains some of it! Maxwell is playing first base and doing fantastic. He can stretch out to catch those balls and keep that foot on the base! His hitting is strong and it is really SO fun to watch him and this team play!

They actually lost their first game but it was only by one run in the bottom of the 6th. It was a GREAT game all around despite the loss. Maxwell even got the game ball for an impressive double play!

They’ve won all of their games since! Woohoo!

Spencer is on the Red Sox with his same coach from fall ball and having a great time. They get to play on the big fields this year so he and Maxwell’s games are at the same place which is great. Spencer is a big hitter and an awesome player.

Samantha is the very best baseball sibling…most of the time! ha! She’s thoroughly enjoying the Icees that come with the games and loves being outside.

She’s a trooper…even if she does look like this after a full day at the ballpark!

Let’s play ball!

Gooo Orioles! Gooo Red Sox!