NSB – North Seattle Baseball
First, a little background. Stacie heard of a league in the north part of Seattle that has summer seasons and winter batting cages. It’s quite a bit more competitive and you can steal bases, lead off, and bunt.
We joined the NSB Cubs and first met them before their game on Monday night. We got there and the whole team seemed genuinely excited to see Sennet. Immediately one kid said, “Come on Sennet, let’s go play catch.” The team is very put together and pro. 4 coaches (all wearing uniforms too), all whom played college baseball. I think the head coach told Stacie that the kids are all at least 9 years old. Height-wise Sennet fit right in with them, maybe 1 or 2 were just a bit taller than him, and several shorter. They are also all quite good. Good at throwing, good at catching, and really good at hitting. He’s super thrilled.
They let him play in that first game. He played center field and right field. He got one ground ball hit to him that he fired back into first base for the out and all the Cubs’ parents shouted, “Way to go Sennet!!” (The parents all seem very cool and very supportive too.)
At the plate he walked twice and popped out once. He was quite excited to steal his first bases. By the end of the game they were all chattering in the dugout like they had known each other for 10 years.
Ok, so his second game with the NSB Cubs was tonight. He still doesn’t have a hat or jersey, as they had to order those for him, so he wore his blue Chicago Cubs t-shirt. He had a great game. He started at short stop, then played left field, and then he pitched for 3 innings. He did really well, I think only giving up one run each inning he pitched, didn’t walk too many batters, and threw a lot of good strikes.
At the plate he walked the first inning, stole second and third and then stole home on a wild pitch (caught that on video). The next time up he got beaned in the helmet. Freaked him out a little bit, but he shook it off, took his base, and promptly stole second and then third on an errant throw, and ended up scoring another run. His last time up to bat he finally got his first hit for the Cubs. Smacked it into left field for a nice single. Monkey off his back – he’d really been wanting that first hit.
This was a game that the Cubs’ parents had not expected us to win, I guess the other team is older and really good. We played them tough the whole game, both teams pulling ahead back and forth. The Cubs finally pulled it out and won by one run right at the end. Pretty cool.
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