This fall baseball season has been a fun one! It has definitely had it's ups and downs, but overall an awesome season for Caden. We had planned for him to play on a select team with his coach that he takes private lessons from. But, right before the season started, we found out that team had fallen through. So, he ended up playing with the rec team he had played on in the Spring. Josh was an assistant coach and Caden enjoyed the team, so we thought it would work out ok. To be honest (and a proud mama), Caden was by far the best player on the team and his teammates knew it. He was also one of the oldest and his teammates really looked up to him. The team started the season with the pre-season tournament, and to all of our dismay, they won 1st place! The team also played in the mid-season tournament and won 2nd place. The team was only beaten by one team all season, unfortunately, we played that team like 6 times (including tournament play). I think we beat them 3 times and they beat us 3 times. The team also lost the last game of the season to a team they had beaten a couple of times already. We had already placed 2nd for the regular season and I think the boys didn't care too much about that game. Caden had his best season so far. His pitching was awesome and he had a batting average over .600. Around mid-season, he hit a home run (his 2nd ever) over the left field fence. What was really cool though is that field is called Fenway, because the left field fence is double in heighth. They call it the fence monster. So, he hit over 190 feet in length and over two fences in heighth. The homerun was also a grand slam. It ended the game, so Caden calls it a walk-off, even though his team was already winning. It was definitely very exciting! He also pitched in that game and made about 90 % of the put outs.
This past weekend, was the end of season tournament. Caden's team was the 2 seed and it was a double elimination tournament. We only played 4 games and 2 teams in the tournament. Of course, we played the same team we had already played 6 times (they were the 3 seed) and we played the 1 seed team (who we had beaten once). We won the first game against the 3 seed and lost the 2nd game against the 1 seed, which us put us in the loser bracket and we played the 3 seed again, beating them again. We were then in the championship game against the 1 seed. In the game we lost to them earlier in the tournament, we only lost by 1 point and unfortunately, Caden had been put in to close the game and they scored the win run off him. It's hard to see him get so upset about things like that. But, it's a team sport and he was not the reason his team lost. They all contributed to the loss, just like they all contributed when they won. He recovered quickly. In the championship game, he pitched the first 4 innings. He threw around 50 pitches, and only gave up 1 run. His team was up 4-1 when he had to be pulled (because he had thrown his max number of pitches for the tournament). The next pitcher let in 2 more runs. Caden's first at bat, he led off the 2nd inning. First pitch he saw, he slammed it over the center field fence. 235 feet. It was a beautiful line drive. He also had a rbi double and a single in the game. Caden's team won the game 7-3 and became the 1st place team for the season.
There were several times this season, that I seriously thought I was going to go into premature labor! I'm a nervous wreck watching that boy play!
I love watching Caden play baseball. He has such a great head for the game and he is so talented. I hope he is able to grow and improve and play for a long time!
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