- Oct 27, 2009
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My DD just had her first 14 U tournament games today. She is 12yrs old and playing up. She pitched well in her first game and got a win. But she got pretty beat up in her second game tonight. She physically pitched very well but mentaly and emotionally lost it. The first batter of the game drilled the ball off the fence on the first pitch. She recovered from that pretty quickly and held them to 1 run in that inning then got three up three down the next two innings. Then in the fourth inning her team made a few errors behind her and then the wheels fell off! She ended up giving up 5 more runs before they pulled her. She was clearley upset and everyone at the park knew it by her body language. She looked like she had given up! How can you teach a 12 year old to be mentaly tougher than that? Can you teach them that or does it just develop with age and experience? Or might it never develop?