A New Position

A couple of things to note about the Padres game tonight. They had their first loss of the season, losing big to one of the other undefeated teams. It looked worse than it actually was though since Lucas's coach let kids who haven't pitched before try out the position. If the regular pitchers had been in there, it probably would have been a bit closer.

Speaking of that, Lucas pitched in the first inning, and he did a really good job for his first time on the mound. He faced 3 batters: one of them hit the ball but got thrown out at first, and the other two got 4 balls and hit off the tee, but they were also thrown out. So technically, he threw a no-hitter! :) Despite the walks, he did have at least one strike against all 3 batters so it was a good start. He's pretty accurate when we play catch, so I think if he works at it, he could definitely be a pitcher more often. If he wants to. He also had a nice hit off the tee in his one at-bat, but unfortunately, it was caught by the second baseman.

I would have liked to have gotten more pictures, or even a video of him pitching, but I wasn't sure if that would stress him out so I tried to stay out of his field of vision. I did get a couple of pictures of him warming up before the game so you can look at these and pretend there was a batter there. :)

And here's his at-bat. I am usually the first base coach so I was able to get a better than normal angle for this shot.