Summer Baseball

Spencer played summer baseball this year just like Maxwell played summer baseball two years ago. Maxwell didn’t do it because he wanted to go to the 3 week camp session and it overlapped. Baseball or camp – hard choice! This was Spencer’s first year playing and I think he had a great experience! He had some good teammates and made some new friends. I really liked his coach and think these boys learned a lot! Ready for practice…

It’s a really intense 6 weeks with lots of games and practices packed in. Coach put Spencer in the shortstop position – a position he’s never played before! – and he rocked it! He learned it so quickly and really played some great baseball! I was so proud of him for learning something new and really earning that spot! So Shortstop Spence!

His cute team!

They did play in a tournament one weekend and it was an intense, hot and fun time!

Of course Samantha got to spend a lot of time at the ballpark too! Luckily she had some good buddy siblings on the team and loved playing with them – especially on the day we got drenched during a game!

I can’t say this team won very much…at all. In fact, I think they only won 1 game in regular season play. But, they hustled and worked so hard. My #12 was a winner no matter the final score!

Winners or not, they definitely had lots of fun together!!

They went into the final tournament in last place. It was a double elimination tournament and they lost their first game. We thought the end was near! Spencer had to leave a swim meet early to get to the next game. I stayed at the swim meet with Samantha but kept getting the text updates from Robert that they were actually winning! Woohoo! They won the game. Amazing! They were supposed to play the following night but got rained out so they played Thursday instead. Again, we really thought this would end it but, what do you know? They won again!! That meant a Friday night game…the same Friday that we were supposed to be in Montgomery for Maskers rehearsals. We sent Samantha onto to Montgomery with Mary Beth and Robert and I stayed in Birmingham to watch the Spartans play and I am SO glad we did ! They came out strong and won their game! AMAZING!! This determined boys ended up winning the “losers” bracket and got to play again. The first game ended at 6:30 and they were back on the field by 7pm. They finally broke their winning streak and lost that game but that meant they ended up in 3rd place overall. WOW! From last place all the way up to 3rd! Go Spartans Go!!!

I am incredibly proud of Spencer and all of the hard work he put into this team. There were long hot days, lots of practices, and really challenging games but he kept his spirits high, never complained once, and truly had fun!

He loves baseball and I love to watch him play!

Go Spartans and Go Spencer!