Matthew's Big Game

Matthew’s Storm won a close game Saturday, stopping the other team from scoring to hang on for the win. Matthew again had a good game. On defense he played shortstop, third-base, and left field. He again gobbled up several grounders in the infield…whenever an infielder can corral a ball, this prevents baserunners from taking extra bases and scoring more runs.

He was able to catch one grounder at third and step on the base for one putout. Another time he caught a grounder and threw to second, but the runner beat the throw.

While in left field he ran down a ball and fired to second. The shortstop applied the tag for the out…Matthew’s first outfield assist of the year.

Coach Turner employed his 13 year old son Zach as the pitcher, and team hitting improved a bunch. Zach has played on teams with Will in the past. After the game Tim asked if Will would be able to pitch when Zach has conflicts.

Matthew batted third in the order and got two hits…once making it to second, and then making it all the way to third on the hit.

While Matthew was playing shortstop, Ceil saw him hold up two fingers. Ceil thought he was signaling the outfield the number of outs. We asked him about it after the game, and he said that when the umpire held up two fingers, Matthew held his hand up and waved hello to the umpire!