Our Little Ball Player

Jax is playing baseball again, but this year they have ditched the tees. We signed him up with a different league that is for 4-5 year olds. It is basically coach-pitch, but an employee for the Union Mission (mostly high school boys) pitches for both teams (good consistncy), another catches, and a third is the first baseman. The rest of the positions are filled in by the kiddos. They are mainly trying to get them some hitting practice and trying to teach them the very basics of defense. They encourage them to throw every hit ball to first base, and this has improved Jaxon's throwing big-time. As far as his offense, he gets on base about 70% of the time. As soon as he gets a little bit bigger, he should be able to control the bat much more and swing it much harder.

He's got a few more weeks of games, so I will try and remember to bring the video camera and also to take more pictures. If you're on facebook, a friend of ours put three really cute pics of Jax on my facebook page.

Jaxon and some of his teammates ready to bat. Some of the kids' older siblings like to "help" with base coaching and getting the kids in the correct batting order.




Our little slugger: