Pitcher

“Baseball was, is, and always will be to me the best game in the world.” - Babe Ruth My favorite place to be is a baseball field. I am most comfortable when I am playing baseball. There is no more relaxing feeling to me than trotting out to shortstop while the hot, golden brown dirt kicks up from my heels. As soon as I take a step out on the field, I forget everything outside of baseball. Before every game, I warm up by taking ground balls. As simple and meaningless as this sounds, it is one…

When I was 9 years old I played on a baseball team. Although I was doing ok playing baseball the coach and I thought I could use some improvement. ¨Strike Three you are out!¨ I struck out again, I remember after that I felt motivated to practice more and more. I needed help practicing so I thought of someone who could help me, my grandpa. I talked to my grandpa and I said ¨Hey Grandpa can you help me practice baseball?¨ ¨Of course I'll help you practice baseball!¨ he said. I was so excited to…

There is a total of nine positions out on the field. The positions include; catcher, pitcher, first base, second base, short stop, third base, left field, center field and right field. There is also an umpire that stands behind the catcher, who people call Blue, that keeps count of outs. Another part of the umpire’s job is to call strikes…

to change positions when needed. It looks like a very easy position but in the end it is one of the most important positions in baseball. To start off in the position you will have cervical extension to be able to watch what is going on with the pitcher and also people on base at all times. The most important muscles in cervical extension would be trapezius, levator scapula, splenius capitis, splenius cervicis, rectus capitis posterior major, recuts capitis posterior minor,…

rules and a lot of players; some people might even call it boring. But to me is a sport full of action and really tough plays where most of the action takes place at the home plate. This is because here stands the batter waiting anxiously for the pitcher to deliver the pitch, so he can try to hit it. In television those professional players make it seem very easy to hit the ball and do home runs, yet in real life a person can have some trouble hitting the ball. Mostly those players are able to…

Just a Blur Today was the day. My dad had been talking about this all season. As we walked up to the field before warm ups I was slightly more nervous than usual. They were our rivals. We had to win to prove we were the best softball team in our town. When we got to the field there were a few girls waiting for us. I sat down next to my best friend Sabrina, whose father was also a coach. We became great friends because of softball and because our dads were harder on us than anyone else on the…

For my microcycle project I was given the sport position of a baseball pitcher. Baseball pitching is an extremely explosive and sometimes an unnatural movement. The main parts of being a good pitcher is to have velocity, position, and movement. In order for there to be a successful pitch, Chris Blake of the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the UConn Health Center says that there are 6 phases the body must go through. Phase 1 is the wind-up. This is where your knee comes up and stores…

Florida Gators. The smallest kid on there team was bigger than me, these guys were giants. We keep up with them being behind only one run through out the whole game, it was the last inning with two players on base and I'm up to bat. They changed pitchers by the time i got up, and this kid was huge, at least 6 feet which is crazy for a 15 year old, he had broad shoulders and a mean look on his face, i was average height for my age which was around 5 foot 2 inches. He threw crazy fast and it was…

the State Championship works is we play best 2 out of 3. We start our game, 2 wins away from our dreams coming true. Our pitcher Kade Woods is pitching lights out, we are up 3-0 everything is going our way until...there is a play at the plate. Kade gets ran over by the JPRD player, and Kade is ejected. Now things aren’t going great, they have the momentum and our starting pitcher is ejected. Although we still fight back to win the game 5-1. The next game things didn’t go our way again and we…

butterflies in my stomach were frantic causing my stomach to do flips. I had to hide my fear and try to focus on the pitcher; however, the other team could sense my tension and started to creep in. I needed this hit. If I strike out, I will cost my team the game. I put thought to the back of head and focused on this moment. I got in my ready stance raising my bat and waiting anxiously for the pitcher to throw the ball. As she started her wind up, I loaded up using my legs and arms to be…