Best moment: this past fall, DD's senior season (high school). She was pitching in a random, early season game and was just having one of those games in which she was truly happy, just in the moment and having a ton of fun. She got a third strike called, and broke out into a huge grin. From then on, every time she got a called strike she smiled a huge, happy smile, just spontaneous - I don't think she knew that she was doing it, she was just really happy. More and more calls kept going her way and she just got happier and happier. It was a fun day and I was having the best time seeing my daughter having so much fun.
Worst moment: a year prior, when DD was in the circle and I could tell that something was wrong - her face was tight and she was stalling in between pitches and kept reaching down to rub her hand in the dirt. I could tell that she was in pain but didn't know how much or where. It turned out that she had two stress fractures and two bulging discs in her lower back. She had been reaching down to try to stretch out her back while masking her motion under the ruse of drying off her hand.
Worst moment: a year prior, when DD was in the circle and I could tell that something was wrong - her face was tight and she was stalling in between pitches and kept reaching down to rub her hand in the dirt. I could tell that she was in pain but didn't know how much or where. It turned out that she had two stress fractures and two bulging discs in her lower back. She had been reaching down to try to stretch out her back while masking her motion under the ruse of drying off her hand.