10 yo DD has thrown well over 20,000 pitches in the last 12 months. The only pain she has ever experienced was the day after her first long toss workout. :)
She loves pitching in practice, games, lessons, but we will shut her down for six weeks starting the end of November.
Her team has...
DD played her first 12u fall ball tournament this weekend. They used a 120 seam 12" ball that has very smooth seams. We played a fair amount of 10u tourneys at this park earlier this year and the 11" balls were "normal", with 58 very nice fat seams. :)
DD pitches, and likes a nice fat seam like...
12 straight shutout innings over two games at state tournament
DD little league state tournament is over. First game she pitched a six inning shutout with the team winning 8-0. Second game she started, she shut out the team through the first six innngs. Sadly, the other pitcher did the same to...
Nine year old DD played in her first little league district championship tournament. 9/10 allstars.
Played four pool games winning all to get to the championship game. DD was starting pitcher in two of the four pool games and pitched a six inning, complete game in the championship game –...
DD worked like a maniac all winter on her pitching. Pitched a little in 8u, where she got bitten by the pitching bug, and wanted to be prepared for, hopefully, making the 10u rec team. (she tried out as an eight year old but did not get the call for AAA) The end of 8u she was throwing horse shoe...