...Or Gardellade for being seemingly impossible to counter. I don't like this at all. Even though nine is pretty young to be pitching, anyone that is nine years old and has a shred of accuracy needs to know he's got talent. I remember the first year we had the kids pitching in my local Little League, no one could consistently put a pitch over the plate, and wild pitches that were bound to hit the batters were probably going to happen 3-5 times each at bat. They were throwing harder than 40 mph as well. That was scary. It was practically responsible for getting me to stop playing baseball and switching to golf. I would stand at the plate thinking the next pitch was probably coming at my head or my ankle or my elbow, or it might go over the plate. I was practically ducking out of the way before the pitch was thrown.
Now, when you have a kid that is putting the ball over the plate every single time with no wild pitches, that isn't scary. It shouldn't matter how fast the ball is going. You can just swing the bat where he has been putting the ball and you will probably get some hits. Maybe this is too demanding of a nine year old though. One other thing I want to address here is that the other team forfeited as soon as they saw the pitcher. Is that the kind of message you want to send to the kids? Give up and go home because the going's getting tough? Has the league thought about that? I leave off with that.
