childhood baseball highlight

[Charger567]

I sure know mine..

Williamsport Sectionals debut. My league, NSLL was not exactly a powerhouse (won district 5 times in 54 years... I was on the team for 2 of them in a row.)

I got the start. First pitch of the game.. Home run. Two batters later.. Home run.. Quickly 2-0. After that, I was in the zone.. somehow. I threw twice as hard, faster than anyone there had ever seen. Hit the corners PERFECTLY, like a major leaguer. This kid was crowding the plate, and I threw the ball right on the inside corner, missing him by about two inches for a strike. Did it three times in a row for a strikeout. I struck out 13 guys that night, and retired 16 in a row after the home run. We won in extra innings.

[PopTop]

My last year in Little League, one of the sponsors was a steakhouse and they put a sign in right-center for a free steak dinner if you hit it. I managed to ring it up four times, once on the fly and three others on a bounce. Coaches all thought I had a great opposite field swing, but the truth was even then I couldn't get around on a fastball :cool:

[Charger567]

Did you get the steaks?

[CanadianKid]

I was 12 years old and I had pitched the previous inning and when we were going up to bat I was going to go to the washroom but my coach told me thta I was leading off. One of the parents jokingly said to hit a homerun and then I could go to the washroom. Next pitch I hit it over the rightfield fence, however I didn't jog I sprinted around the bases:laugh.

[PopTop]

Did you get the steaks?Yep, was able to treat most of the family to a dinner out, felt like the king of the world when my 12-yr-old butt strutted into the restaurant with the free dinner vouchers. :D

[Charger567]

Actually I have one more. My city all stars coach thought I sucked, that I just made the team because my williamsport team got so far. The first game in, he told me to throw a change up, I refused. He said that if he saw one hit because I didn't throw a change up, he would take me out. I went out there, throwing the hardest I had ever thrown, and struck out batter after batter using only fastballs. I threw a no hitter, and had a double and two home runs at the plate.

[CanadianKid]

I have the 2 game balls from my 2 1 hit shutouts from last year. As well as the my first homerun ball which was in the city championship semi finals.

[Richmond Hill Phoenix]

One time when I was catching, a throw was coming in from CF to nail a guy at the plate. I caught it, and while I was dropping to block the plate, the guy absolutley demolished me. I didn't even see it coming (held onto the ball though :D ). But the ump didn't throw him out of the game because he said that "I was too far up the baseline". I had to, because the throw was up the line anyways.

So three innings later, the same guy is at 3rd and the guy at the plate hits a fly ball to LF. The guy on third tags, but is DOA. I have the ball, and its deeply in my mitt and I am anchored at home waiting for the guy. But he decides to try to run me over again. This time I was ready, and I nailed Him. I brought my shoulder up at the last second, and he went down like a sack of potatoes. The ump ejected him that time, and there was almost a brawl. My teammates had to hold me back.

Typically, I'm a gentle person. But when a guy runs you twice in the same game, in a NON-Contact league, I want to give him something in return. That is probably my highlight from youth baseball (so far).

[jays632]

I've got a couple.

1) Playing catcher when I was about 12 I had the plate blocked with a runner coming around and the throw coming from RF. I got the ball and made a really quick/agressive tag that more resembled an axe-handle to the runner's face. He got called out, knocked out cold and lost 2 teeth.

2) Fouling a ball through the umpire's windshield when I was 10-ish.

3) Diving catch on a soft-liner up the middle while I was playing shortstop, I landed on 2nd base to double a guy off. The kicker to this story; it was t-ball and I was 6. Literally every parent in the park was just staring with a dropped jaw. AFter the game to my mom I was like "What's the big deal? Alomar does it all the time"

[-Kyle-]

Happened last spring...

Just a real quirky basball team that went 10-0...wasn't the best team in the leauge, but we won almost all of our games by 1-2 runs. In the final playoff game, we were facing the best team in the league. 2 outs bases loaded, bottom of ninth, they are down one run, I'm playing shortstop. 3rd hitter(Colin) hits a double. There 4th hitter is up, a kid named Ryan, very big. He hits a long fly ball......the opposing team starts running out onto the field...and it curves foul by 5ft at most...hits my moms car ... Would have been a walk off home run. Next pitch is hit a mile high to the 3rd basemen...Colin pushes our 3rd basemen out of the way and he misses it. Ump calls it 3rd out due to interfernce. Eah-Yah!

[CanadianKid]

Forgot to mention this one...when I was 12 my team turned a triple play:D :D Runner on 1st and 2nd, batter hits a line drive, for some stupid reason the runners break 2Bman catches it throws it over to me at 2nd and I relay it over to 1st. Probably greatest moment teamwise so far in youth baseball, either that or getting 3rd in OBA's (Provincial championships).

[SamtheBravesFan]

Didn't have much experience. Best thing I did was get hit by a pitch, I went to second on a wild pitch. I went to third on another wild pitch and the next thing I knew, I saw the ball whiz past my chest and into left field so I ran home and scored a run. My only run the entire season. My other highlights were various walks and hit-by-pitches, and two foul balls and a pop up to short.

I also felt a good sense of satisfaction of doing exactly what I was supposed to do on a ground ball single to right field: kneel down, glove in front, get the ball and throw it to the cutoff man.

That's it.

[Seattle1]

I made the All-Star team a couple times. One of the things they liked about me was that I was a good bunter, and a switch-hitter.

[Atlanta Braves Freak]

My baseball career was short lived, sort of like Eddie Gaedel, only I played one more game than him. I was either nine or ten years old and I decided I wanted to play baseball instead of watching and taking stats. So I ended up playing with my younger brother's team and I hit for the cycle in my only game with them. I was the only player on the team to not have a jersey number and despite my great performance the team lost their first game. My only other game was with the correct age group and I walked in my only plate appearance.

Career Stats (short-lived)

HR-1
RBI-5
Triple-1
Double-1
Single-2
BB-1

[rockiesfan4ever]

Ok here are my 5 greatest moments:

1. I was like 10 playing Parks and Rec I got walked then I took second when everyone was just standing there.

2. Again playing parks and rec (I was 10 still) I stole second but the ump said I left to early so I was able to run back to first BEFORE they tagged me. Then they over threw the 1st baseman so I got 2nd. :)

3. I was playing this year at 3B the ball hit off my knee to my SS who threw the runner out at first.

4. I was playing SS and my mom said she commented on how deep I was playing. The ball was hit between SS and 3B. I got it on the hop (backhanded) then threw and with ALL my momentum going to LF threw a strike to 1st to get the guy out.

BRB w/ the 5th one.

[rockiesfan4ever]

ok number 5.

5. I was batting (I'm not the best hitter in the world). I hit a medium bouncer to 3B who got it on 2 hops and he didn't bobble it. I was able to leg it out. OK it is 75 foot bases but. It was this year

[Dravecky43]

One of my most memorable moments was in the league championship game when I was in 6th grade. I started and played like four innings, and in one of my at bats I crushed a two-bagger that drove in two runs. We ended up winning the game 10-8. Great thing about those playoffs was that we were the fourth seed out of four teams but went 3-1 in the double-elimination tournament to win it all.

Oh, and another one happened when I was in 3rd grade. We had a runner on second and I was at the plate. A pitch went behind my back and hit my bat and rolled fair down the first base line. Everyone just stood around until the third base coach said, "RUN." So the pitcher ran over and picked up the ball to throw me out at first, but he completely missed and threw the ball into right field. My teammate scored and on the throw home I went to second. That was pretty interesting.

[Chewybar]

There was one year that i didn't have my uncle be my coach because i wanted to see if it would be any better or worse...well i went to the coach told him i could pitch and play 1st and 3rd base...so he sticks me in right field the whole season and doesn't let me pitch...so next year i go back to my uncle...play his team strike out the coaches son every time he came up to bat and also hit a homerun off his son while he pitced...we ended up beating them 14-2...i still have the homerun ball in my room:D

[Sparksdale]

I was coaching an 9-10 year old team. My worst player comes up to bat, poor kid was just terrible. He quickly gets two strikes on him. All the sudden he turns to the umpire and says something, I can't hear what was said. Suddenly he runs off the field, the umpire calls time and tells me to get another batter.
What's the matter I asked?
The boy had to go take a leak, the ump replied.

Of course I take one of my best players and put him up to hit. The coach on the other team goes nuts. He tells me I had this all planned and I just wanted to get my best player up to bat.

I smiled and gently whispered to the coach....."coach, I can't make this stuff up because this is just too funny."
Then I told the coach to pick any player I had on the bench to hit, after all I thought that was only fair. Besides, I was laughing so hard that I really didn't care about the "at bat" anymore.

Sparks,

[jrh31584]

I only played one season of organized baseball, when I was nine. In my first game, we were losing 12-0, and the opposing pitcher was one out away from a perfect game. I stand in, watch a ball and a strike go by, foul tip the next pitch, and then...THUD. Right off my left arm. So that's my highlight: breaking up a perfect game.

[GotMelk?]

1.I was playing in a first round playoff game. I was playing firstbase and the ball was hit foul past the fence. I started to run after the ball and made a sliding catch in foul terriotory past the oppents dugout. It ended the inning and we were only down by one.(I was always put on the bad teams after my one team went 19-0).This got my whole team pumped. Too bad my parents weren't looking. We lost 1-0. Anyway when i got into the dugout I told my team mates it was do to the fact I played MVP Baseball 2004.(I was 12.)

I always wanted to pull off the hidden ball trick.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

I only started playing baseball when I was 25. During the 4 years before I played softball.

One home game I was playing left field, where I had a very busy day. I caught a lot of lazy fly balls. But I also made a couple of diving catches, shoestring catches and a over-the-shoulder-grab.

I don't remember if we won that game, but when I came out of the dressing room, our coach was talking with the coach of our oponent.

The opponent's coach said:"Wow, your left fielder was awesome."

You can imagine that I had a HUGE smile upon my face. :D

[tripledup22]

mine are

1. catching a fly ball and throwing home to get the runner from mid center field.
2.getting an out then using the hidden ball trick.

3. always using the idden ball trick after our pitcher walked someone.:D

[hellborn]

OK, this is ancient history...when I was a kid, we started playing organized ball around 8, and the first season was 1/2 tee ball followed by 1/2 kid pitch. I was the only kid on the team who could throw strikes and was being groomed to pitch, so I was on the mound for our first game. Before the game started, I noticed that the prettiest girl in my grade, who was also in my class, was in the crowd...I started sweating bullets.
Being the first game, most of the kids were pretty bad at hitting off the tee, including me. About half the kids on the other team popped the ball up between the plate and the mound, and I handled all of the pops without an error...I guess 9-10 chances in 6 innings. My coach, who turned out to be a lunatic, was really happy with me and clapped me on the back after every half inning.
Next Monday in class, the girl walks up to me and tells me she saw me in the game. I said that I saw her there, too. Then, she gushed, "You caught SOOO many fly balls!!" I was the happiest guy in existence...I told her that it wasn't so hard, but she insisted that I must be really good. I was walking on clouds for days...
Anyway, never got the girl...also, made the league all star team, but didn't get to play because I was coming home from out of town and my father refused to bring my uniform to the Greyhound station and drive me to the game right away. Told me that it wasn't important enough for all that effort.
Family issues kept me from playing the next season and I just decided to not ask to play any organized sports after that because it just added to the strife in the household. That was my only organized baseball until I joined the NABA at age 25. I kept playing pickup ball and spent hundreds of hours at batting cages learning how to hit fast stuff in the meantime...but, breaking stuff was a revelation to me at that late age.
Please don't read me as being too bitter...my parents had serious problems, and I'm grateful for what they were able to do for me despite them. I was never the big sports star again, but I became successful in other ways and still love to compete as best I can.

PS - for funny highlights, there was the time one of my teammates wet his pants and started crying during the game...

[EdmondsFan#1]

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[Dalkowski110]

Striking out 17 batters in a 9-inning game. Granted, I also walked 10 and it was against the worst team my high school ever played (they were 2-23!), but I K'd 17 guys.

[cosmo34]

I made a reenactment of Jim Edmond's diving-with-his-back-to-home-plate catch, only mine was at 2nd base. I think I was 10.

One senior league game we only had 7 guys show up. (5 guys were on the freshman team, and had practice the night of the game, I was in 8th grade so I was good to go) I played 3rd, SS, and LF all at the same time. I went 6-7 with a hr, 4 2b's, a triple and 7 rbi's. I threw out a runner at first, from shallow left, but we lost 13-12.

Probably my favorite was my 24-31 streak in high school. (.571 final average is 6th highest in 4-A Iowa history)

My favorite one that I had nothing to do with was a kid shattering (and I mean the entire friggin thing) a windshield with a home run.

[CPatt44]

I was pitching for my varisty baseball team as a Sophomore in high school. I struck out 17 batters and went 3 for 4 with 2 doubles and 4 RBI's in route to a 9-0 shutout 3 hitter. Was given conference player of the week after going 4 for 5 in the next game with 2 HR's and a double.

Went 8 for 9 for the week with 2 hr's 3 doubles and 8 rbi's along with 17 K's and a 3 hit shutout.

I will never forget that week

[BoofBonser26]

I stunk. Was always the worst player on my team.

So when, at age eleven or twelve, I struck out two batters in my pitching debut, I was the happiest kid on earth.

(Of course, I struck out the eighth and ninth hitters. Then I walked the bases loaded. Then I caught a dribbler to the mound and tossed it to the catcher. All I know about the next inning is that I didn't finish it. :D )

[Mr. Red]

While baseball has nearly always been my favorite sport to follow, I was and am better at competitive swimming so my baseball career was rather short (unfortunately, but you've gotta stick with what's working). However, I remember my very first T-Ball at-bat as a 4 or 5 year old. I cranked it (for a 4-year old) out of the infield and past the "outfielders". It was our first "game" and they really weren't sure what to do with it and I got homerun in my first at-bat. I'll never forget it.

[Yankees 27]

I have a few moments. I'm only 13 so I might have a few more moments this year but I'll remember these plays.

My first had to be when I was 10. We were in the playoffs and I was in left field. We were losing at the time and a comeback seemed unlikely. The other team's best hitter hit a fly ball to left field. It caught me off guard so I had a late jump on it, as it was over my head. I remember running as hard as I could and putting my glove up, while running, and somehow making an over the shoulder catch. It was my only catch of the year, so when I stumbled and fell to the ground I thought I dropped the ball. But there it was in my glove. I tossed it back into the infield and took in the congradulations from everyone. We would come back and tie the game, but lose in the bottom of the last inning. I still don't know how I caught it but I remember the play.

Another game I remember was last year. In the playoffs, we were losing to the other team 7-3 and were two innings away from losing. We started a rally in the 5th (Only 6 inning games) to make it 7-6 but our best hitter grounded out with the bases loaded and 2 outs. We managed to hold them in the top of the 6th. I was leading off in the bottom of the 6th and I hit asharp line drive to third base. He fielded it cleanly but his throw wasn't too hard. I was able to beat it out by a slim margin. The 3rd basemen may have bobbled it but I never glanced his way and ran my hardest to first. Our next hitter struck out. The next hitter hit a weak grounder to the shortstop. I made it to second but he got the runner at first. Our next hitter was one of our worst hitters. He had been doing slightly better but things weren't looking good. My best friend was playing second for the other team (It was a local league) and he said with him batting, the game was over. I told him miracles happen. I think the pitcher managed to get two strikes on him but on the next pitch our batter golfed it (It was such a low pitch his swing looked like a gold swing.) I hustled home and slid, though there wasn't a throw home, I just wanted to slide. We went on to win on a sac fly.

I hope I have more moments like these this year.

[TG Coach]

If you're fortunate to play the game for a long time (through college) the people you play with and just putting on the uniform every year becomes a bigger memory than games and specific events. Running out to your position on opening day is special.

A very vivid memory is after my last game in the locker room. I didn't want to take my uniform off. I knew I'd never put on a uniform again. I knew I'd never be hanging out in locker rooms and dugouts with all the friends and characters I encountered along the way, with all the laughs we had and all the pranks we played on each other. I felt this more than just losing an NCAA regional.

This is why you see pro athletes cry when they retire. It's not playing they'll miss. They know they're done. It's the camaraderie of the game they don't want to lose.

[Noodles]

I have two to share:

1) It was my last year in Little League, and the same coach decided to try me on the mound, and I was feeling confident, but then right before the game I got a little anxious, but I managed to settle down right in the warm up pitches; (keep in mind this is the very first time I pitched) I ended up striking out 12 kids, and throwing a two hitter. One to the right-center gap and one in no mans land.

2) It was in modified b baseball, we were facing brockports #1 team (we were Batavia's #2 team) I was pitching, I was our ace that year, its kinda funny, because I threw only three pitches: fastball, palmball, and knuckleball, and i still throw those three pitches today on JV. Well, anyway, I ended up throwing a one hitter and walking one, my coach took me out for some reason, and we still won, so I didn't mind.

[Glasgow Red Sox/Giants Fan]

Hitting 3 MASSIVE homers, stealing 5 bases and catching a DEEP drive to center in a softball game in Phys Ed. This is also the same game that a friend of mine crushed the ball into the pitcher's nuts!

Please note that we don't really have Little League over here (it's annoying), so this'll have to do!

[wickedcurve093]

i have 2

1) Last year. Summer travel team, 12U. Little League. However, I was older than everyone in the league. I strike out 8 in the first 3 innings of 6. I strike out another 2 in the last 3, because coach told me not to throw the curve anymore. :dismay: I pitch a complete game. Oh yeah did i mention this was a championship game against a highly-favored team?

2) First game of the same league. 1st at bat, groundout. 2nd at bat, stupid sidearm pitcher throws a meatball in the middle of plate. First HR ever for me. Next at bat, 2B. 2 for 3, HR, 2B, 2 RBI.

[captlid]

Hey I got a few!

I am 17 around this time, top of the 11th inning of our very long pickup game complete with catchers and someone to umpire. :)
Score is 4-2 in favor of the other team, bases loaded 2 outs, running on pitcher's windup. I get up to bat wondering how I am gonna get a (heavy wooden) bat on the pitcher's relatively blazing fastball.
First pitch is a swinging strike,
second pitch is a ball,
third pitch a swinging strike,
fourth pitch fouled off hard to the right,
fifth pitch close call umpire called a ball,
sixth pitch also called a ball way over my head,
next 6 pitches fouled off,
hands are starting to hurt from swinging so much,
next pitch :) ripped a line drive that the pitcher ducked,
bases clearing double!!!!!

The second story,
This one is more recent, happened about two years ago. I was loosening up before our game against a tough foe and I noticed their catcher passing by, I started chatting with her and she told me that this will be her third game in two days behind the plate. I observed her playing in a previous game and was impressed with her throwing arm. I asked her if she would be catching in the game against my team. :D I did not have my uniform on yet, so she did not know who I was.

Well the game starts and our team finally gets within one run by the bottom of the 6th inning. While I was on deck I was observing the catcher and noticed that she did not block the last two pitches very well. She was slow to get to the ball, hmm.... I get up to bat and get walked by the pitcher. Now I am the slowest person on my team, and no one on my team or any of our opponents would think of me as a base stealing threat! So much so that the catcher totally disregarded my huge lead off first base. The batter behind me was not having a good day at the plate. I decided that our team has to do SOMETHING to make the other team sweat some. I was the tying run at first. Snuck a peek at the catcher and said to myself, "This girl is tired, I am stealing second, dont care how good her arm is." Took my regular lead, soon as saw the pitcher's leg go toward home, booked it to second like there was no tomorrow. I go sliding in and feel a ball hit my left shoulder. Umpire looks down at me sprawled on 2nd base, probably to make sure I was still touching the bag.

It's a highlight for me, because it was the first time I stole 2nd base in an actual game, and because my getting over there eventually led our team to tie the ballgame in that inning. :) We won it in the bottom of the 7th with two outs on a hard hit single with a runner going from 2nd to home, the ball, the catcher and the runner all arriving at the same time!

[HammeRDrop]

A few for you guys :)

When I was about twelve, I hit my first out of the park homerun, and it was quite unexpected because I had only hit it out once or twice during batting practice that year. When I saw the pitch (down and in) I said "im gonna go down and get that ball" swung, ran hard, but by the time I got to first base, the first base coach had said "its gone!" I was so excited, I tried not to smile in an attempt to look cool and act as if it wasn't my first, but it was :) Two games later, the bases were loaded and the thought of a Grand Slam never crossed my mind, but sure enough, a frozen rope over the right field fence qualified as my first Grand Slam, quite a feat considering alot of people have never hit one, and I did when I was twelve. :cap:

My other memory would have to be last year, I was 14 at the time, and participating in a 18U tourny in Moscow Pennsylvania, which is always fun since I'm from Canada. But in our second game, we were playing a tough team that was clearly full of 18 year olds, we got spanked, but in my two AB's I had a huge flyout to center that surprised their 6'5 pitcher lol and a grounder up the middle where the 2nd Basemen made a great play to throw me out. The next team we played expected us to be pushovers; and rightfully so, but in the first inning there was 2 out and a man on second when I came up to the plate. The first pitch was a fastball right down the middle, and I jumped all over it. Once again I hustled my ass down to first, thinking it would be a hustle double, but by the time I looked up I saw the ump signalling "Home Run", I went 2-2 in that game with a Homer and a double, before my Coach took me out when I jammed my thumb catching a fastball :shrug:


Good times :dance

[Jose Reyes]

No hitter in freshmen high school baseball. We won 22-0 so it was only 5 innings because of mercy rule but it is still memorable for me. I gave up no walks and it would have been a perfect game had our shortstop not booted a groundball. That was the only man to reach base on the other team.

Another highlight for me was my first homer over the fence in little league. I was 12 and it was during a fall travel league game.

[Ihaveloveforthegame]

when i was 9 or 10 i was facing the ace pitcher for the 1st place team in our league. it was the last inning and we were down i ended up having the walk off hit. best part about it was it was my first hit in little league and it was my dad's birthday ( rip )

[J-MAC]

im 16 now and i did this when i was 14 in my last year of bantam baseball. we were in our OBA'S (ontario baseball associton)ontario championships semi final game. we are down by one run in the bottom of the seventh playing a team out of toronto called martin grove. i was the starting short stop on the team but i had been benched the whole tournament becuse i tore my trapzieus muscle in my back, back to the game. down by 1 7th inning 2 out runner on second. coach puts me in to pinch hit, of course im not going to say no. first pitch asks me to bunt, i fail misserably same with the second pitch. so im sitting 0-2 wth two outs next pitch i smoke a double. so were down bye one. then my fav part. im on second next guy up hit a hard hit ground ball through the whole between second and first. im running my balls off and go right through the stop sign my 3rd base coach was giving me. ball come in before i do and i do the hook slide head first pete rose style and we win the game. i was happy:).. ended up loosing in the finals tho.


and my other one was when i pitched a 2 hitter in semi fianls the year before .

[goblue94]

Mine is pretty easy my brother and I hitting our first homerun's on the same day. Ironically they were both grandslams. Then watching my son hit his first homerun and while he rounded the bases realizing that it too was a grandslam. How often has that ever happened?

[byrner27]

I have 3 that really stand out for me:
The first was last year, the day before i was going to represent Ottawa at the Ontario Summer Games and in my first at bat with my Kanata team i hit a homerun about 30 feet over the right field fence and hit some guys house. I remember rounding first thinking wow this is actually going to carry out. I now play on the same high level team as hammerdrop.

My second was in the final game in our districts, which is regionals in the US. We were in extras and I was 1-3 in the game with a 2run homerun. They intentionally walked the guy in front of me to get to me. I hti a walk off grand slam and we advanced to provincials

Finally, two years ago in districts, i got to start the game before the finals, and I was really nervous because I wasnt much of a pitcher. In the 3rd inning one of my friends on the other team took my submarine fastball yard. The enxt batter took it yard but my friend brought it back in with a sweet catch. I continued into the 7th where i struck out the batter with high heat. The first start i ever got in a game i went the distance.:baseball:

[PleaseWinAWorldSeriesCubs]

I've made lots of great plays and whatnot but my most recent(happened yesterday) highlight is my 4 strikeout inning. That game was also the first time I've ever gotten 10 Ks in a game and I only pitched 5 innings.

[StanTheMan]

I was a very good defensive first baseman, a above average Relief Pitcher, and an average hitter.....


But nothing I ever did compares to what my daughter did in her last game (9 and under girls softball)

Unnassisted Triple Play!! I help coach, and keep score... I had no idea what to write, so I just wrote TRIPLE PLAY, and ended the inning.

She was playing short... bases loaded... pop-up to her, which she catches for the first out. She checks the runner on third, who had strayed, but was going back. Then the runner from second trots by.... whom she tags for the second out. She goes to throw the ball back to the pitcher.... but the runner from first is standing on second, and has not gone back.

We're screaming for a throw to first, but the first baseman is not paying attention. The runner from second starts back (after some loud pleading from the other team's coaches/parents) but my daugher hustles to first, beats the runner to the bag, and slaps me five, as I was standing outside the first base dugout. I take the ball, thrown it into the stands her Mom and we took the ball home and recorded the event on it with a Sharpie.

Last three games she's been part of a triple play and two double plays. Our last name is Smith, but her name is not Ozzie, despite her golden glove!!

[Utility07]

That is not unassisted.

[Padday]

That is not unassisted.

It is. She got the first out from the popup and the two subsequent by tagging the runner and first base. She was the only one to touch the ball in the play so therefore no assist.

Mine has to be the time I made every single out for my team in a two inning game. 5 strikeouts and an assist. Felt pretty proud of myself especially since it was the first game I ever pitched.

[Utility07]

She threw the ball to the pitcher.

[Arnie#6]

Catching a perfect game (5 innings) and throwing out my first runner

[Padday]

She threw the ball to the pitcher.

She went to throw to the pitcher but then realised the runner hadn't gone back to first so didn't.

She goes to throw the ball back to the pitcher.... but the runner from first is standing on second, and has not gone back.

Simple misunderstanding is all.

[StanTheMan]

She went to throw to the pitcher but then realised the runner hadn't gone back to first so didn't.



Simple misunderstanding is all.

Indeed....... misunderstanding by two base coaches on the other team, two runners who did not retreat on a pop up caught (or really just started running on contact anyway), as well as a first-baseman who did not realize what was going one.

Some of our own parent (certainly the mental equals of the other team's base coaches) asked... "what just happened?"

I suppose I could have worded it better.

Ugly or not, it was an unassisted Triple Play, and very fun for her... and me.

[Padday]

Indeed....... misunderstanding by two base coaches on the other team, two runners who did not retreat on a pop up caught (or really just started running on contact anyway), as well as a first-baseman who did not realize what was going one.

Some of our own parent (certainly the mental equals of the other team's base coaches) asked... "what just happened?"

I suppose I could have worded it better.

Ugly or not, it was an unassisted Triple Play, and very fun for her... and me.

I actually meant Utility's misunderstanding rather than the situation.

But I agree with you. It takes some quick and clever thinking to be able to pull off a play like that.:applaud:

[StanTheMan]

I actually meant Utility's misunderstanding rather than the situation.

I know.... but there was plenty of misunderstanding on the field as well!!

She made the ALL-Star team today (two girls from each team) and the coach handed out certificates (most improved player, best hustle, best team spirit, essentially for some of the girls who struggle a bit) and guess who got the award for "Play of the Year?"

[StanTheMan]

Holy shi!

My daughter made ANOTHER unassisted Triple Play again at her game tonight.... 7/8/9 year old softball.

Same scenario, first and second, no out, line drive/pop-up to short.... caught for the out.

Runner on second too far off the bag, tagged for the second out.

I'm pleased as punch at this point.... but she immeidiately wheels towards first to find the other runner.

Runner from first is standing on second.... coaches are screaming at her..... it's a footrace back to first!! (My girl's probably thinking..... been here before!!) the first baseman is weak - been dropping throws all inning so she doesn't throw it...

So my girl beats the runner to the bag by about 6 or 7 steps, and we're out of the inning. We took this ball home as well!

I really don't know what to think.... it's absolutely ridiculous when you think about it. I'm buying a lotter ticket tomorrow.... maybe three of them!

[PleaseWinAWorldSeriesCubs]

Woah...2 unassisted triple plays? Maybe she'll turn into a Jennie Finch :bowdown:

[StanTheMan]

Woah...2 unassisted triple plays? Maybe she'll turn into a Jennie Finch :bowdown:


Well..... she has just about the same hair as Finch... long and blonde. I don't think I'd want her to marry a ballplayer though........

But then again, maybe that would be better than a plumber (no offense to any plumbers out there!)

[hellborn]

Well..... she has just about the same hair as Finch... long and blonde. I don't think I'd want her to marry a ballplayer though........

But then again, maybe that would be better than a plumber (no offense to any plumbers out there!)

I think that a good plumber might make more $$$$ than a minor league BP these days!!!
I used the Jennie Finch angle to get my 7 year old interested in playing softball...showed her videos of Finch playing, bought her a Finch bat and glove (Mizuno), etc. It helped a lot in getting her started...now she loves to play. Her career highlight so far is making 2 unassisted putouts at 1B in one "inning" (in which all opposing players bat).

[Cougarbaseball02]

My greatest moment came this year. I started against Fulton High School. Threw a 3 hit shutout.

[Georgia_dad]

The memories. I played LL in the mid 1960's with wood bats. We played on a field that didn't have a home run fence. If it got by you , you ran it down.

1st) Playing right field, fly ball hit my way. I remember starting to run in on it and stepped in a hole and fell. I fell face first and landed with my glove open and the ball landed in it for the out.

2nd) I played a lot of center field in LL being one of the fastest on the team. I remember one game I was playing deep because a big kid was up. He hit a little pop up behind 2nd base. I came racing in and made a shoe string catch. By the time I caught my balance I saw the runner frozen between 2nd and 3rd. I tossed it to 2nd for the double play.

[Francoeurstein]

Memory 1: One game I pitched 3 innings, no hits and 9 strikeouts. I know yall can't believe that but I was SOOOOO pumped. I was throwing 64 mph gas at one point and I was 11 1/2. I also went 2-3 with an infield bunt hit and i single up the middle.

Memory 2: Against the SAME team, different day I went 3-3. Single up the middle, line drive off centerfield fence, and a homer over centerfield. It was my first one it was so exciting. I also pitched and gave up two in 3 innings and struck out 6.

[PleaseWinAWorldSeriesCubs]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I had a couple highlights so far during fall ball.

Made a diving catch behind the mound, the ball would've dropped between the mound and second but I got off the mound in time to make a diving catch.

A different day I was playing center field and I had a ball line drive hit to the left of me, luckily I was able to make a diving catch to end the inning.

The last one is my first complete game. I pitched all 7 innings in a 3-2 win, didn't give up a run until the last inning. During the game I struck out 8 while only walking 1. Usually the coached only let you go 3 or 4 innings but since I was getting quick innings I was allowed to go the whole game.

My team also turned 2 double plays in that game, both if them involved me.

[bballer13333]

A couple higlight I can remember. One from last school season and one this fall ball.

School Season: We were up 11-5 in the 6th inning on the #10 ranked school in our state. They have 3 players going to big time colleges, 2 to Hawaii and 1to University of Washington. Our reliever comes in and gives up 3 runs without getting an out and I have literally about three pitches to get warm. They rushed me out there with 0 outs, bases loaded, 11-8 ball game. I get a ground ball to second which gets the out at home. Bases still loaded with 1 out, grounder to SS for a DP. Got out of the inning with no damage done.

The 7th inning comes we are up 11-9 and I strike out the first kid. Then I walk the next, give up a single, strike out the next kid. Then they have their 3 hitter come up and he has one that has a scholorship to University of Washington. I end up walking him on a 3-2 fastball that was a bit outside. So bases are loaded with 2 outs, 11-10 game and the best hitter in the league steps into the box. He has a full ride to Hawaii and is in the running for SPSL (our division) Player of the Year. I get a curve over for a strike, then 2 balls, then a fastball for a strike. 2-2 is the count and I throw a fastball as hard as I can inside and jam him. He pops out to 2nd and we win the game. It was very intese and I loved every moment of it, especially finishing off the best hitter in the league for the final out of a game which coulda put us out of the playoffs.

This Fall Ball:

I am going to be a senior this year btw. I face a community college team and only go 3 innings because it's fall and we are only allowed 2 or 3 innings. I made them count however. I got 7 of 9 outs on the ground and only gave up 2 hits that were both off the infielders gloves. This is the CC that I was planning on attending, so I needed to pitch good and I did.

My stat line for that game was 3 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB.

[Rockhound]

I was about 6 or 7 years old playing Pee Wee T-Ball. My friend promised me that he'd let me use his batting glove, but when it was my turn to bat, he wouldn't let me use it. So I started crying and panting. So he finally let me use it. I hit the ball and I got so excited that I couldn't find first base. There was no chalk line drawn from homeplate to first so I panicked and ran straight to second! Moments later, a coach took me by the hand and redirected me to first. After that I have no idead how the inning ended.

I also remember my cap being too big. I played T-ball for 3 years and every year, I was given a cap too big. So big that I always had my ears tucked in. Yeah it looks funny....my mom has pictures to prove it.

[NJMetfan4life]

Mine happened last year, I was a year older then every one in the leauge because of my birthday. I got a nice hit into center but had to stop at first. next pitch I took off and ripped my pants, but I was safe. After that on the next pitch I took off for third slid. When I got up, (I was safe) I felt something, looked down. RIght down my leg was blood in two spots. I ripped my pants twice :) I scored. Thank god my best friend on the teams dad was there( He's a doctor) Went in to play 1st the next inning. Almost ripped the bandages on some nice plays(If I do say so myself)

Also I took one for the team one day and my first base coach(who was 14) missed my hand when trying to give my a high-five for getting a game winnig RBI. His slap hurt more then the pitch

[The Real McCoy]

A bit past childhood, teen years; not baseball, softball.

Played four times against "The King and His Court"; seven at bats against Eddie Feigner, six strikeouts. The one time I got my bat on the ball, I "launched" a swinging bunt down the first base line and beat it out.

In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that at the time of this feat, Feigner was pitching from second base, blindfolded. His first baseman was standing next to him, to field any line drives hit back through the middle (highly unlikely) and to retrieve the return throws from the catcher. He was, of course, in no position to field my "hit," which hugged the first base line.

A final note: In addition to getting a hit off an unhittable pitcher, I believe I also set the modern day record for use of the term, "It'll look like a line drive in the score book."

[E.Howard 32]

Little League, summer of 1968. I played 2nd base for the Firemen! We won the regular season and first two games of the playoffs. In the championship game we were leading 7-5 going into the bottom of the last inning. The Braves loaded the bases, there were 2 out and one of the best hitters in our league was batting for them. He hit a towering drive to deep center. There wasn't a fence out there, just empty space that went on forever.

I thought the game was lost, but our little centerfielder (who didn't get to play a lot that summer) ran back, back, back and made a terrific catch, falling down. The ump signaled the out and we were the champs! We all ran out to centerfield and lifted him up on our shoulders, celebrating.

[loubiedoXCHC]

I have the 2 game balls from my 2 1 hit shutouts from last year. As well as the my first homerun ball which was in the city championship semi finals.

all my game balls and home run balls are lost i used them all to practice

[nyyfan]

I have had numerous clutch hits and 6 game winners. My most memorable one is the year we won our tournament. I was up last inning two outs and I was sooo nervous! I remeber, I watch my tape of it I got 1-2 then hit one deep left that won the game for us. I was so excited when I did.

[BenB]

Winning the league tournament when I was in 7th grade. I was the winning pitcher and got the go ahead RBI.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

I have written something about me playing left field. But today I remembered a thing that was even better.

I have pitched a couple of games; most of them were not a succes.

But one game I came in as a reliever. We were trailing huge, so no big deal.

One of the batters I faced fell behind in the count. Then I threw a second strike with a curve ball. You must know, that at the level I am playing at, throwing a curve ball is not a common sight. Then I struck the guy out with another curve ball. It was the only time that a player of an opponent applauded, after being struck out. :)

[NightHawks2007]

I've got three...
1) Making a game saving diving catch while playing right field.
2) Full count, bases loaded, tie score, bottom seven, game winning single.
3) Anytime I struck someone out with my Eephus Pitch-like Curve.

[DaveTheYankee]

Well, I haven't played since Third Grade, but I'll be coming back in the Spring, I'm in 8th grade now.

Memory 1: In 2nd Grade, playing as the Yankees, I hit a ground role double with the bases loaded, and won a game against the other amazing team in the league. (We were among the top 3, and went on to the championship and lost 5-2.)

Memory 2: This one isn't as challenging as a feat, for some reason, our first game was against a bunch of younger kids, and I went 5 for 5 with two doubles, a triple and a single. The triple was purely because of an error.

Memory 3: Winning the championship in 3rd grade and going 3 for 5 in the championship game, with 1 RBI in the third inning.

[sl0annuggets]

i have a million but one of them is this. i was playin juco ball in AZ and in an intersquad we turned a triple play. i was playing third and it was 1st and 3rd. they tried to bunt and the kid on third got really far down. the bunt was popped lightly to the pitcher. he dove and caught it and threw to me which was an awful throw. i held the bag falling with my stretch. i turned over to my butt and saw the guy on first was trying to tag up and be sneaky. i threw to second from my butt and he was out. it was sickkkkk

[nyyfan]

I was in i think the 11-12 year old team and hit a game winning inside the park almost out homerun. It was against the 13-14 year old team so that was realllllly cool. I still have the ball to.

[closer28]

have a few

(1 had 3 pickoffs in one game
(2 had two no hitters in one season
(3 making a diving grap and throwing the runner out at home in nationals
(4 beating the snot out of a kid who tried to run me over at first base

[MaraMoose]

My best highlights were when I was eleven and I nailed four runners in one game while I was catching (and it was only even a six inning game). Also, when I was thirteen, after starting the season on a six game hitless streak, I got two hits in one inning and then I continued it to end the season with a nine game hitting streak (I know it does not sound that much but I was a small fish in middle school facing pitchers in high school)

[brooklynbushwick44]

i remember mine vividly. my sophmore year of highschool coach was subbing out all the regulars as we were getting blown out i was called upon to pinch hit with the baseas loaded and ended up belting a grand slam, allbeit with an aluminum bat. it was great but unfortunatley we still lost the game. to date it's the only one i ever hit

[libd]

I was about 12 or 13 and playing catcher. I was in two collisions behind the plate on one play and both runners were tagged out! They would have been called out anyways due to the fact that we had a slide or give yourself up rule. I blocked the plate as I was taught and I just held onto the ball for dear life. As I was lying on my back I heard my teamates yelling "Get up! He's coming home! I got up as quick as I could and I couldn't believe it when I saw the second runner barrelling down on me. I blocked the plate again and then POW! That one really hurt. I was taken out of the game after that for fear of a concussion. As a matter of fact, I am getting a headache just thinking about it.

[rebelptchr]

I was 14 playing on my middle school team. We were playing the best team in the league. They hadn't lost a game in 3 years. My coach put me in to start against them because they supposedly couldn't hit a curve. I threw a curve the first pitch of the game and the guy hit a long foul ball home run. I ended up throwing a perfect game. I threw nothing but fastballs and change ups the rest of the game. That was the only loss they got that season. We lost ot them later in the playoffs.