The last time we played the Mukwonago Phantoms, we lost by one run. This time we lost 19-5. It wasn’t our day.
What I liked:
- Having Sean and Brian play with us. They’re nice kids.
- The great scoring job by Mr. Thomann – he kept track of pitches and all.
- Jackson’s put-out of the runner stealing second. Nice throw, nice tag.
- Henry pitched great in the 5th.
- Logan turned an unassisted double play (thereby putting me on the ho0k for ice cream), and Henry had the ball pop loose on an awesome sweep tag.
- Putting the kids in different positions. Caleb caught a great force out at second, and having one of our shortest players at first base was great. Caleb is probably the headiest player we have. He very rarely misses an assignment.
What we could have done better:
- Not being depressed about losing by a few. I told the kids baseball is supposed to be fun, and reminded them that they waited all winter to play baseball outside. I should have given that speech in the beginning of the game.
- I think it was a function of being down three coaches, but we seemed to be in a funk, me included.
- Not much else.
I really hate it when umpires do not show up for games.
Hopefully the rain holds off and we can play today and Saturday.
