First T-Ball Game!

Today the boys had their very first t-ball game! Their team is the San Francisco Giants which is pretty awesome since that's our local team and who we cheer for in major league baseball. There are at least 15 teams in their league, so we totally lucked out in getting the coolest one (though Mitch would probably argue that the LA Dodgers is a totally great option as well!).

I wasn't sure how well Simon was going to do at the game since it was right in the middle of his usual naptime (he was great! He loved people watching and cheering for the kids!), so I didn't haul my big camera and lens with me today. I snapped a few iphone photos instead...but now I have to find the cord to get the pics on to my computer. I'll post a few of the mid-game shots later on once I figure that out.

Since all the kids are still learning the fundamentals of the game, there aren't really any outs in t-ball. For every inning the batting team allows all their players to take a turn at bat and advance one base, and then the final batter hits a home run and brings everyone in. Sutton was excited that he got to finish up two of the three innings, so he got to hit two "home runs." Since the Giants had 12 players and the Rays had 10, technically we would have won the game 36-30. The boys were thrilled once we calculated that out for them, even though no one was actually declared as the winner.

VERDICT: Sawyer loves baseball, and he's really having a lot of fun. He keeps his focus on the game (as much as can be expected at this age!) and is eager to go to bat and to field the ball. Sutton, on the other hand, is incredibly bored with baseball already. He spent most of the game dancing and spinning around in the outfield (sometimes with his glove laying on the grass next to him!), and he didn't pay much attention to what was even going on with the game. He would have been happy to quit and come home after the second inning, but he stuck it out, and in the end he was really proud of himself for playing the entire game.

We're going to keep encouraging Sutton to go to his games and practices to see if he develops more of an interest as he gets more skilled and has more knowledge of the game, but in the meantime I'm going to do a little more research on non-team sports that he might enjoy...we're thinking it might be time for him to go back to gymnastics! ;)