My team won it's season ending 10u rec tourney this weekend. Were in a pretty small rec league so we combine with couple of other leagues to play our season ending tourney. We will play these other rec league teams during our regular season but not as much as our own teams.
So we get to the finals and play a team we've never seen before. They were aggressive on the bases, fielded the ball cleanly and made good throws, always to the right person. I had outfielders picking dandilions and infielders drawing pictures in the dirt. So how did we win?
I'll bet you didn't see this coming (tongue in cheek) but my dd who's pitching coach I've paid a king's ransom to over the past year won it for us. It was pretty much the same formula we've used all season, I give dd the first two innings and she gets us an insurmountable lead that my #2 or #3 pitcher can't lose. It's not like the other team's #1 pitcher completely sucked either, she had decent mechanics and could get it close but not in the zone (fast and over the plate but always high it seemed).
If we had gotten all walks and didn't at least get a few hits off of her I would have considered forfeiting.
So we get to the finals and play a team we've never seen before. They were aggressive on the bases, fielded the ball cleanly and made good throws, always to the right person. I had outfielders picking dandilions and infielders drawing pictures in the dirt. So how did we win?
I'll bet you didn't see this coming (tongue in cheek) but my dd who's pitching coach I've paid a king's ransom to over the past year won it for us. It was pretty much the same formula we've used all season, I give dd the first two innings and she gets us an insurmountable lead that my #2 or #3 pitcher can't lose. It's not like the other team's #1 pitcher completely sucked either, she had decent mechanics and could get it close but not in the zone (fast and over the plate but always high it seemed).
If we had gotten all walks and didn't at least get a few hits off of her I would have considered forfeiting.