The morning before opening day ceremonies at Arthur Pack Park. His team name is the Iron Birds and this is his first year in Coach's Pitch. We had to get him some baseball pants and a cup. He has a couple of friends on his team from school and the coach is a friend of mine from playing soccer.
Jonathan has a great swing and tends to drop his back shoulder a little and pops them up. We worked on his swing last week and he hit one out into the outfield over everyone and kept talking about it all the way home. Of course it made me smile a little and remember the good old days when I was a kid and loving to play baseball.
He didn't understand the rules of base running yet when he played third base and the whole force-out concept. He kept tagging the runners when he fielded the ball instead of stepping on third base. You can see his assistant coach yelling and pointing to the bag. Step on the bag! Step on the bag! A little coaching and he was ready by the end of the game to get the force out.
Coach Danny had him suit up catchers gear at the end of the game and he liked it. He thought he looked like an army man and a motorcycle guy. I thought he just looked cool. After a few pitches bounced off his lower parts I understand why they have them wear a cup.
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