After offering up his baseball performance to God, Gabe has done very well this season, batting over .500. This weekend in a District 12 tournament, our team went 3-0 in the opening weekend, including coming back from two runs in extra innings to win our final game.
Our 3-0 recorded gave us the fourth seed out of 20 or so teams and the opportunity to go head-to-head against the Palm Harbor Rays in the Quarter Finals. We ended up losing to the Rays 5-3, but the overall weekend was a great success.
The greatest part about our tourney was that everyone of the players came up big over the course of the weekend, either at bat or in the field. It was a nice time.
On a personal level, in our second game I was thrilled to see Gabe hit his first home-run over the center field fence. We were up 8-4 and Gabe had a 3-0 count. Usually I would give him the "take" sign, but I let him hit away. He hadn't had enough at-bats from the left side of the plate, so I figured the more pitches he faces, the better. Fortunately he lifted the next pitch, a high strike, out of the park. As he trotted around the bases, his face beamed with a combination of ecstasy and disbelief.
Below is a video compilation of Gabe's hits and pitches on the travel team (in light blue shirts and orange uniforms) and our Little League Team (in the dark blue shirts and also gold jerseys).
I saved the home run as the last highlight. If you watch closely, our player running home before Gabe never touches the base. Caught up in the excitement, he drops his helmet, turns around and greets Gabe.
Ahhh, Little League.
Enjoy.
Updated PS - I've been playing around with some editing SW and came up with a high-def output. I shortened it A LOT (only just over 1 minute now) and you can see it in HIGH DEF HERE or Standard Def below.
Gabe's HR Reel - Short Version on Vimeo.
For the original extended SD version, click here.
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6 comments:
Way to go GABE!!! You need to archive these videos, they will be worth something one day when he goes professional!
Love ya Ret
I have just about every at bat he's had the last two years. I had to scrub through a LOT of non-hits to get these out. :)
Dea and DC were not able to attend the game, so, fortunately, one of the mom's video taped for me. Glad we got that one on tape.
All of 'em are archived away.
Awesome! I admit I had to fast forward to the end.
Congrats to Gabe!
Understandable... his HR is about 3min mark.
WOOHOO! GABE YOU ARE COOL :)
Loved the HD version. Saw both and congrats to Gabe!!! You dah MAN!
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