April 19th - First Machine Pitch Baseball Game!

On April 19th, Michael played his first baseball game in Machine Pitch with the Oxford Little League!

Here he is, playing "pitcher," which just basically means you are first to get it by the ball if it comes your way (as evidenced by him getting a ball to the face while Brian was out of town on Tuesday, May 21st):

Here's Michael playing 1st base.  You can see how focused he is:

Here's Michael's at bat where he hit the ball and got to first:

In case you want to see the video of that hit!

Michael LOVES playing baseball and is part of a really nice team.  The parents all have fun hanging out and watching the game.  They are all really great people!  The games are SO much more interesting to watch than the t-ball games because they actually keep track of outs/runs/etc.  They play 6 innings!

Now that Michael and his team have been playing for weeks - it has been really great watching how well they field and hit.  They all have come a long way and it's been fantastic to see!