1. Find a team that you play during season and play them. 2. Find some powder-puff you can beat up on. 3. Play anybody that you can, even if it's some club team that might crush you.
I don't like #1 or #2, so I pretty much stick with finding anybody and use it as a learning experience.
13U played at noon. I have a roster of 11. Right now I have a RF in a sling with a fractured arm. And during the week I also got a CF 9and leadoff hitter) in a brace for tendon tears in his wrist. Then at 6PM on Friday I got a text that I have a Catcher with a 101 fever. So I arrive at the field knowing I will play 8. And one of those is a brand new fresh rook...so in reality I have 7.
We take the field and my #1 Pitcher is having trouble. Two errors in my infield don't help. Neither do the three BB e gives up. Plan was to let him go 2-3 innings. He finished 1 with a pitch count of 51. And 5 runs on board.
We get three back in bottom of inning. Then I put in another pitcher. He gives up a walk, we get another E-5 and a BB and 3 runs are across. At 22 pitches, he tells us he has an issue with arm...pitching change (I start thinking we might only be able to play 4 innings at this rate). OSSS comes in, throws 7 pitches and we are out of inning on an F8 and tagout DP on a pickle on the kid who tagged to go home.
After that, we played baseball. Didn't score too much but we only gave up a couple more runs. OSSS went on to pitch another couple of innings...which we desperately needed. Final error count - 7. E-4 twice, E-6 twice and E-5 three times. That doesn't include my SS watching a ball drop right in front of him that he thought the pitcher should field.
In 11U action - we got trampled. Nuff said.
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