09/06/2025
Just a few action shots from today's games.
Here's my experience so far this season, having joined two travel teams...
Today's team was an existing full team prior to this year who only needed 2 new players this season. The majority of the players have played together for the last 2 years, this being their 3rd season together.
Coming in to an existing team has different dynamics. They played the pre-existing players both games, and the two new players swapped in and out for eachother.
We were up the last game 4-1 at the bottom of the 3rd inning.... Alex played all 3 innings, and then they swapped him for the 4th inning.
His team ended up letting the other team scored 9 runs in the last inning! 🥴 What a shame!
We will likely only have 1 game tomorrow bc of today's games.
Next weekend though Alex has his first Tournament with his 2nd Travel team. This team just formed this year.... and they've been consistently using Alex and 1 other player to swap pitching and catching.
This new team is actually lovely because there aren't any preexisting expectations. The coach is also a JV baseball coach and he's coaching his team as if they are at the same level!
It is definitely draining at times, mentally, physically and financially.....
But I'm glad we did it this season to feel the differences between teams.
