Thank God Its Over

Well, the debacle that was the Safety Harbor all star teams has finally ended as they lost their last game of the tournament 13-3. It was an ugly, ugly game. It didn't start off well either. I had brought two video cameras so my daughter and I could tape the game. As I was setting up, one of the camera batteries died. At that moment, we found out that Gabe forgot his athletic cup, which means he couldn't play. So, Dea had to go home to get the cup. After retrieving it, she tried to restart the car, but it wouldn't start.

Thankfully, our neighbor, who's son is also on the team and who also forgot his cup, happened to drive up. Cups in hand, they both came back to the field and I was able to get Gabe redressed just as the game was about to start.

As for the game itself, we got our hats handed to us. Gabe spent most of his time catching and playing second. He hit the ball every time, yet only got on base once and was later thrown out at second base by making a very poor decision.

The team played so poorly it was embarassing really. We had eight walks in one inning. We had two errors in right field costing us five runs. We had base running mistakes, playing errors, multiple passed balls, bad hops and incompetent play.

So, the undermanned and undertalented Safety Harbor 9-10 all star team played up to its own limitations, losing all three games in the tournament.

On the positive side, Gabe learned a lot about playing at the next level and he also got to play with a few players with which he had wanted to play for some time. Now, we're going to take a break away from baseball and recharge our batteries before fall ball later on in the year.