Sebastian at play

 

Sebastian continues to play both baseball and soccer - baseball games on Tuesdays and Saturdays, with practice on Thursdays; soccer game on Saturdays. The weeks feel very full of driving/scheduling/carpooling/observing. Both teams are full of his school friends and he's really happy. This weekend's soccer game was not very exciting - the recreational league they've been playing in since kindergarten has become too easy - they're regularly blowing out the opposing squad - and so next fall the boys will start playing with LYS soccer, a more competitive league. Sebastian participated in tryouts for that team on Sunday evening and did well. (He was all nerves beforehand but then was great once he was out there - as it turned out, he knew the head coach, and that calmed him.) There'll be a second session next Sunday.

Sebastian has missed a number of baseball games so far - finger injury, rain-outs, conflicts with soccer - but he played on Saturday afternoon and pitched three innings. He struck out a few batters, walked a few, and for the most part threw it over the plate and let the batters swing. Accuracy is really lacking at this age and there are a painful number of walks every inning. (Seriously, in this game, we scored probably 10 runs on walks...) So I'm proud that he at least puts the ball into play and avoids hitting the opposing team's batters. He's not much at hitting yet - doesn't strike out, but doesn't swing and keeps getting walked - and that's definitely something to work on.

 Stealing third base.