Baseball Finishes

How do you finish your baseball season?  How about on your knees taking grounders at your chest.  That was how we closed out warm ups for my eldest before a game to help him stay down on the ball.  He hasn't been a mistake machine, but has let a few through his legs not getting his glove dirty.  What can you do?

Will this lesson pay off?  I don't know.

What I do know is he has every win on his team for the spring season.  It wasn't perfect, it wasn't always pretty, but he consistently did his job, and the last game of the season was pretty similar.  Dodge got the game start and as I prefer, he was able to finish out even pitching through a little trouble he put himself into in the fourth inning.

As a pitcher he ended with a four inning Complete Game.  He gave up one Earned Run due to three singles and worse, three walks across the four innings.  All in all, not a bad number of earned runs for a WHIP of 1.33.  He did help himself out though making three infield plays where he induced ground balls and he struck out eight so while he had a WHIP of 1.33, his strikeout per nine was 18.0 which will get it done in almost any league.

He also helped himself at the plate going two for two, scoring a pair of runs, plating another runner, and running like Jackie Robinson swiping five bases in two plate appearances.  It has to be a good feeling to get both the game winning RBI and the game Win.  I hope the finish to this season gives us an opportunity for the future.