Great start to my daughter's pitching career

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May 15, 2016
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My DD just turned 13 last week. A few weeks ago she said she wanted to practice pitching with me. At the beginning of June, her coach told her she should try practicing pitching, but she did nothing about it. She took a weeks worth of lesson's at a local college softball camp two years ago, but hasn't pitched since. When we went out to pitch I figured she would last 5 or 10 minutes. After 45 minutes of continuous pitching she decided to stop for the day. The next day she practiced with me for 40 minutes. Mind you she had enough control that few of her pitches were too wild for me to catch, I was impressed. I told her she was taking this seriously, and I would get her a lesson. She had a lesson, then asked me to practice almost everyday after that, so I got her another lesson.

This past Friday she had a league game with her town team. She came in the 4th inning, and struck out the side, two looking and one swing. She began the next inning, not well and she was pulled. Yesterday she pitched the last two innings of the next league game, giving up 2 earned runs, on three hits, two walks, with three strikeouts. Her coach told her teammates they have a new pitcher on the team. She had been playing third and outfield all spring and summer.

Here is the funny part. I asked her today why, weeks after her coach encouraged her to start pitching, did she finally start practicing with me. She told me she was in the outfield during a very slow game, when one of team's pitchers was walking in five runs in an inning. She was getting bored and thought if she pitched the innings might go faster. No dreams of playing in the college world series, or even of pitching a shutout, she just wanted the games not to go too long. Now that she has been in the pitcher's circle during game time she is finding she really likes it.
 

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