Major League Baseball

Lance was thrilled to finally be playing baseball again; missing the fall season was tough.  Thankfully he landed on a really good team.  Good in the important sense, good coaches and nice kids with great time spirit. Chris was also an assistant coach on Lance's team which believe it or not only led to two conflicts the whole season, where he had to choose which game to miss.

After the first game, Lance played catcher every inning of every game.  No one else wanted the job and Lance didn't want to play any other position so it was a perfect arrangement.  With all that practice it's no surprise he really improved as catcher over the season.  He had a great out a home and some other great plays but the best for him was being part of an awesome triple play.

Chris had video taped Lance batting about mid-season and worked out some tweaks in his swing.  Then, on evening of June 3rd, they went to a three hour USA baseball camp.  Here Chris was able to really study his swing, after the camp Chris made one more tweak to Lance's swing.  At the next game, Lance hit a line drive past the short stop, almost all the way to the fence. After the hit the other team mom's jokingly asked what I fed Lance that day (LOL).

The Marlins record of wins and losses doesn't really give the team the credit they deserve for really improving over the season.  Given a few more weeks and I think they could have really done well in the tournament.  As it was they fought it out to the very last play, only loosing by one run.

Our other favorite major league player had a great season as well.  Matthew's incredibly fast legs served his team splendidly in the Right Field and his team went on to win their Spring Season Tournament.