Whew - just finished another full weekend at the ballpark. The Braves participated in their second tournament this weekend - this was an AAU event in Auburndale. We are a "fire" division team (like AA) and all three teams we played this weekend were "ice". The boys did really well and managed to go 1-1 in pool play - winning their first game 20-9 and then losing their second 12-2. Bradley played left field the first game and did a great job - catching a fly ball and doing the right thing of throwing it to the cut-off to make sure the runner on second didn't advance. He pitched in relief the second game but it was too far gone to do much good. He helped his team at the plate in their first game on Saturday going 3-4 but no at bats in the second game. It was an early morning on Saturday as we had the 8 & 10 am games - that meant leaving the house at 5:40 to be at the park at 7! Elimination day started at a more reasonable hour of noon - meaning we didn't have to leave until about 9:40. We faced a really tough team out of Tampa that had obviously been playing together for quite some time. Bradley took the mound and really pitched a great game but he was unable to get the fielding help he needed. TR said it sure looked like the other team had been scouting Bradley as they hit the ball well and didn't take a alot of pitches. Of course, playing on a 300' field didn't help when the ball got past the outfielder it was headed to the fence! Our boys put up a great fight but it just wasn't enough and they were never able to get anything going at the plate, losing 9-0. Our boys have been taught to be patient at the plate but it definitely didn't work when the ump's strike zone was a little hard to get a handle on - as Bradley said - "it was about 12" wide but 3 1/2' tall!" after he struck out on two very low pitches and then Carson struck out on two very high pitches. They boys have a doubleheader next weekend and no more tournaments until March 21.
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