A's Baseball 2017 - End of the Season

Lucas's baseball season wrapped up at the end of June. Once again, he had a really good time even though the season was a bit of a mess for a couple of reasons. First, Ottawa's springtime weather was just awful. The season got pushed back a week or two in May due to wet fields from rain and late snowfalls. Then, during the season itself, it seemed like rain arrived every time Lucas's team had a game. If I recall correctly, in their first 10 games, 4 of them were cancelled. I think they all got rescheduled by cramming in a bunch of games at the end of the season, but it wasn't ideal.

The other problem was the organization versus last year's season. For instance, on top of the regular season last year, we had a Saturday tournament against a league from the east side of town, and then at the end of the season, we had a day-long tournament. You may remember that as a busy day for us as it was also the day of Lucas's 4-on-4 hockey tournament, and both of his teams made it to the finals. This year in baseball? Nothing, nada, zilch. They just had their regular season and then had a couple of exhibition games on the final Saturday (which I think were just makeups for the rainouts). No tournament, no league champions. Kind of disappointing.

All that said, Lucas had a great time since he had no less than 4 good friends on his team. I think that's the most kids he's ever known before the season even started. He also really likes baseball, moreso than even hockey, I think. It's a shame, though, that the baseball season is so short. The spring season is only half of May and the month of June. Hockey, while fun to watch, goes on for about 14 months every year so it would be nice to add some of that to the baseball season. Though I guess bad weather doesn't stop hockey so there's the rub.

Anyway, here are some pictures of Lucas and his teammates from the last day of baseball. Enjoy!

This one was taken immediately after the first of their two exhibition games. Lucas and 3 of the aforementioned friends--Zach, Magnus, and Kyle--pose for the camera.

After that, the team had a pizza party. Once the kids finished scarfing down the food, the coach gave them a pennant that had the team name and all their names on it. Lucas's is already on the wall in his room.

The whole team posed for pictures after that. There was a serious photo, but one fun is that? Here's one of the goofy ones. That's Lucas right in the middle, administering what looks like a chokehold.

The rest of the photos are from the second game, later that afternoon. Here, the patient outfielder waits.

Preparing to bat.

Not preparing to bat.

I believe this was Lucas's last at-bat of the season. I particularly like this shot since you can see he got a good hit. If you look closely, you can see the ball in the upper right part of the photo. I can't recall if this was a single or double. He'd probably know. :)

And one final shot for the road, with Lucas at shortstop and Zach in the foreground at second.

And that's that for baseball. I'm going to be heading down to Massachusetts tomorrow afternoon for the long weekend, but when I get back, I'll have plenty more pictures to post. Hell, I still have some from 2015 that need to be uploaded!

So have a good weekend, and I'll see you again soon!