Marathon Baseball

You'd think a seven inning game would be a quick thing. Especially for a young, inexperienced team like ours. But once again we met a district rival and stretched those seven innings over a period of three hours. 

Nathan pitched all seven innings of our loss. The lead went back and forth, and even though the other team pulled ahead by seven or eight in the fifth inning, we fought back valiantly, losing only 12-9. 

Nathan did pitch well. He struck out several and walked two. He also hit two batters in the late innings when he was tired. (He doesn't usually hit batters.) At the plate, he managed to make it on base with a walk and an error by the first baseman. (And maybe once more, I can't quite remember!)

All in all, we see improvement in our team with every outing. But three hours is still a long time to pitch--and a long time to sit through a high school game!