I'm so excited about that, if you can't tell. See, none of the baseball teams here really rotate players. The positions are decided by the coach during the month of practices before the games start. (There are no practices after games start). Most of Josiah's practices were rained out and all but two that they did have were while we were at the beach at the beginning of April. So, he's been playing outfield this season. Almost every game he asks his coach if he can play in the infield. He even had me ask after one game because he thought it might help.
At the end of the last game Josiah's team was losing by a lot, so much that they couldn't make it up in the last inning (they have a 7 run rule) so Josiah's coach put him in as pitcher. I don't think he really did much that game, but whatever he did must have impressed his coach because today he started as pitcher!
AND they were playing the best team in the league tonight!
But really, the most exciting part of all of this was HOW AWESOME Josiah did out there. He was AMAZING! He made the first out in the first three innings. Caught 2 pop flies, knocked down every ball that came to him and wow-ed us all. After the game as his teammates were gathering for their talk, I heard a couple of them say, "Josiah gets the game ball!" "Dude, you were awesome!"
It was so much fun to watch him get to do something that he's been waiting and waiting to try and then be so great at it!
IT WAS AWESOME!
HE was awesome!
It was BY FAR the most exciting game of the season.
Here is Josiah after making the throw to 1st for the first out of the game.
Catching a line drive
Ready to go and yelling at the batter, a favorite part of the game
Laughing with his teammates and having a blast!
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