My 8 year old and I get to the park tonight and his coach looks at him and says “You wanna pitch?” My son without hesitation said “Yes!”
He was suppose to pitch the other night but didn’t. So this was the first time he’d ever attempted to do this.
So on comes this big, tall, goofty lefty to the mound (not unlike his old man).
He strikes out the first kid he faced on 3 pitches. No swings taken.
He strikes out the next kid after a little bit of a battle.
And then he couldn’t whiff the zone 😂😂😂
He throws hard for his age. I simply didn’t expect it to go this well. But all of a sudden the things we’ve been trying to coach him to do he did when the lights were on. He was finishing his throws and pulling the ball down hard. I had no idea who was throwing for a minute.