Rocky Start

Remember when I said my Little League majors team was going to go undefeated? When I said the Yankees were a force to be reckoned with?Well, after weeks of planning and preparing and assuming how great our baseball team is, we came to the awe-inspiring realization that our league is much better than originally anticipated.

Nay, they’re genuinely amazing.

Save our opening game tie with the Mets (the other winless team we’re tied with, believe it or not), we’ve come close in but one game, a 12-10 loss to the A’s. Other than that second game of a double-header, where we lost the opening game 18-6, we’ve fallen to the Tigers 13-3 and the Mariners 6-0.

With all due respect, at least we kept the Mariners to only 6 runs. Other teams in the league gave up more in their 2-hit losses. Oh, yeah, the Mariners also tossed a no-hitter against us! They were one at-bat from a perfect game, thanks to our shortstop’s single-on-error. Their pitcher threw 12 strikeouts in 6 innings against us!

Needless to say, we’re recovering. Of course, we just played 4 games in 5 days, so pitch counts and sore arms have hampered us tremendously. Thank God we play interleague this weekend against Post Falls (a game that does NOT affect our standings), so I can give our starting rotation a much-needed rest, and see what some of our other guys can do on the mound.

Although we’ve opened league play with a 0-4-1 record, I firmly believe we have a great group of guys who can achieve much greater. Where my original goal was to finish .800 on the season, I’ve switched things up a bit: As long as we beat every team at least once, I’m a happy camper. Then, we’ll see what happens in the end-of-season tournament.

Wish us luck (we sure need it right now!)