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Yikes! It's been way too long since I posted anything in this blog. Well, today my oldest daughter will have her first 10U softball experience. The game is set for 5:00 pm. It's only 9:45 am and I'm already nervous! When I asked the 10U coach if my daugher could join them once her 8U season was over, I thought it would be a cool experience for her. She could sit in the dugout, cheer with the girls, and wear the cool uniform.
Then I went to a 10U game and found out that everyone bats! Eek ~ what if she has to bat today? Will she know how to keep track of her count? 8U is coach pitch, so they just get 7 pitches in any given at bat to try to hit the ball. At 10U the players pitch and they go by balls and strikes. If the ump tells her the count is 2-1 will she know that means she has 2 balls and 1 strike? Or will she get it mixed up? She doesn't even know batting signals. She's been to a few 10U practices, but never learned signals. She is rather petite and short though....maybe they'll just walk her all day because her strike zone is so much smaller than the other players. Maybe the coach can just teach her the "take one" signal before the game and give her that all day long.
Then what if do walk her and she actually gets on base? Will she know when to run and when not to run? At 8U you don't leave the base until the ball is hit. At 10U you take your lead off the pitch. She's practiced this a few times before, but I don't know if she'll remember it. I've quizzed her on different base-running situations and she seems to know the answers, but since she's never really had to think about them before, I don't know if she'll remember them in a game. At 8U you can almost run on any hit and be alright. Every once in a while someone will catch a pop-up, but even if they do and you are off the base, you still have plenty of time to get back.
*sigh* ~ Watching her play 8U was so much less nerve-racking. Maybe, since this is tournament play, they won't need to bat all players and my daugher will be able to just kick back, cheer, and enjoy being with "the girls".
I guess I'll just have to wait 'till 5:00 to find out. *fingers crossed*
Then I went to a 10U game and found out that everyone bats! Eek ~ what if she has to bat today? Will she know how to keep track of her count? 8U is coach pitch, so they just get 7 pitches in any given at bat to try to hit the ball. At 10U the players pitch and they go by balls and strikes. If the ump tells her the count is 2-1 will she know that means she has 2 balls and 1 strike? Or will she get it mixed up? She doesn't even know batting signals. She's been to a few 10U practices, but never learned signals. She is rather petite and short though....maybe they'll just walk her all day because her strike zone is so much smaller than the other players. Maybe the coach can just teach her the "take one" signal before the game and give her that all day long.
Then what if do walk her and she actually gets on base? Will she know when to run and when not to run? At 8U you don't leave the base until the ball is hit. At 10U you take your lead off the pitch. She's practiced this a few times before, but I don't know if she'll remember it. I've quizzed her on different base-running situations and she seems to know the answers, but since she's never really had to think about them before, I don't know if she'll remember them in a game. At 8U you can almost run on any hit and be alright. Every once in a while someone will catch a pop-up, but even if they do and you are off the base, you still have plenty of time to get back.
*sigh* ~ Watching her play 8U was so much less nerve-racking. Maybe, since this is tournament play, they won't need to bat all players and my daugher will be able to just kick back, cheer, and enjoy being with "the girls".
I guess I'll just have to wait 'till 5:00 to find out. *fingers crossed*
posted by Stacie | 9:41 AM
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