Three Pitch Tournament

I mentioned before that Hugh and Sam's baseball team, the Seawolves, were involved in a 3 Pitch baseball tournament this weekend. 3 pitch baseball is very different from a regular baseball game or tournament. Rather than 3 strikes per batter (or 4 balls), each batter starts with 2 balls and 1 strike; foul balls count as real strikes, a batter can have an at-bat end on a foul ball, and a team can only score 3 runs per inning. There's a time limit too - 65 minutes per game - so it goes really fast! Our guys WON the three pitch tourney, winning 6 games and no losses while scoring 56 runs to our opponents' 10! Some really excellent baseball happened this weekend - it was fun, fun, fun and we managed to not get rained on (well, at least not too much!). Sam hit his first ever out of the park homerun in the semi-final game - he scored 3 runs on that one.

Here's a picture of our team:


And here they are in front of the scoreboard - the home team has a real scoreboard!


As part of the 3 pitch tourney, they also held a homerun derby. Two kids from our town won first and second place! Here's Daniel, Carl and Cody, who's from another team we play:


Big Papi I think should be worried about these guys!

And here's Sam "modeling" the two trophies. The smaller trophy was awarded to each kid on the winning team; the larger trophy is awarded to the winning team.


Keith is the Lebanon dad who put this whole tournament together - what a great job he did! It was very organized and seemed go off without a hitch. And Mother Nature cooperated too.

All in all, a fun weekend. Oh, did I mention getting LOTS of knitting done? he he I have the leg of Nell's second sock done - I'm on the heel turn now so I'm very optimistic that I'll be able to hand them over to her this coming weekend!

Enjoy your week this week!