Multiple weekend tournaments rained out. DD was invited to practice with team she was going to fill for which turned into a discussion about our normal team and their team doing a scrimmage on Sunday (yesterday). That then evolved into a 3-team round robin.
DD pitched the first game. Did great until she dang near had heat stroke (our first hot day of softball. 85+). And DD is awful about telling us when something is wrong. I even made the head coach go check on her. She lied and said she was ok!! Luckily we were at time and had a game between our second.
After some rehydrating, rest, and food she was ready to go again. But both head coach and I said no to her pitching again. So we used our #3. DD asked if she could catch. Other than catching for me during my pitching practices.....she’s never played the position.
She gets behind the dish and is framing, blocking, chasing and sliding into passed balls, and threw out 3 runners (2 at 2B and 1 at 3B). Should have been 4 runners caught stealing but one was a 50/50 play. Safe to say the team stopped stealing unless it was on a wild pitch.
Guess who our new back up catcher is.........
DD pitched the first game. Did great until she dang near had heat stroke (our first hot day of softball. 85+). And DD is awful about telling us when something is wrong. I even made the head coach go check on her. She lied and said she was ok!! Luckily we were at time and had a game between our second.
After some rehydrating, rest, and food she was ready to go again. But both head coach and I said no to her pitching again. So we used our #3. DD asked if she could catch. Other than catching for me during my pitching practices.....she’s never played the position.
She gets behind the dish and is framing, blocking, chasing and sliding into passed balls, and threw out 3 runners (2 at 2B and 1 at 3B). Should have been 4 runners caught stealing but one was a 50/50 play. Safe to say the team stopped stealing unless it was on a wild pitch.
Guess who our new back up catcher is.........