Younger Boy had a baseball game tonight.

He volunteered to be on the bench for the first inning.  He helped the catcher get on his gear and helped warm up the pitcher.  Pretty mature things for a kiddo who loves baseball.

The rest of the game he was the pitcher.  He is actually a pretty good pitcher.  He has a pro-baseball style form which I think he learned from Baseball Coach last year.  He was doing really well and then a pitch got away from him and he hit the batter on the helmet.  It was loud!  The kid was scared.

Younger Boy started to cry, because he thought he really hurt the other player.  His coaches were great encouragers and got him to smile and go talk to the other player.  He was still wiping his eyes when he threw his next pitch.

He finished out the game.  They didn't win the game, but Younger Boy learned some pretty important lessons tonight about baseball and about life.