DD's Best or Funniest Moment ??????????

[dustyshoes]

Although My DDs have had some great moments it's the funny ones from their first year that stick out in my mind the most. My kids are still young so this was only a few years ago.

We were a rec team and gawd awful as both players and coaches. Our first mistake was to let the kids vote for a team name rather than pick one for them. As a bunch of mostly 1st graders they came up with some kind of Barbie/Teddy Bear/kitten hybrid nickname that inevitably drew laughs from opposing teams at games (mostly directed at us coaches who wore matching jerseys).

It was coach pitch and I was nominated to pitch to our team. I viewed my role as primarily to alleviate the fear I saw in the kids eyes as much as possible before I pitched to them and get the ball to somehow defy the laws of physics by levitating over home plate as if on an invisible tee. We were actually in a competative game with runners on first and second when one of my kids who hadn't gotten a hit all year steps to the plate. Much to my surprise she hits a hard grounder that the third baseman bobbles and by the time she recovers our runner had made it safely to third. I looked to second to see that the other runner was safely at second but as I followed the path to first I saw nobody there. I followed the path down the baseline to home plate and saw nobody there either. I looked to our dugout in puzzlement only to see the girl neatly putting her bat on the bat rack. Obviously, she remembered her mothers instructions to put her toys away after playing with them but forgot our coaching instructions to run to first base after hitting the ball.

I yelled at her to not worry about the bat and run to first after hitting the ball, remembering to call her "honey" at the end so as to not make a 6 yr old cry after getting her first career hit. She was safe at first but we still lost the game.

[sprtsbimbo]

My daughter who plays in 14's now, was in t-ball/coach pitch her first year I believe she was 4. The proud parent I was of her playing in her first game. Video camera watching every move and following her everywhere.

She was up to bat and the rules were if you hit the ball off the coach in the infiield you could only go to first base. If you hit off the coach and it landed in the outfield you take a chance and go to second.

My daughter hit the ball over the left fielders head off the coach and was running to first, the coach at first told her to run to second. She turned to run to second and then this is were the blondness came in. She couldn't see second base due to the opposing team's second baseman standing on the base. But she saw the second base on the field past center field. Yes, she did this little 4year old running to second base in a 12 under game. The 12's had to call time out, the umpires told her she needed to go back to her game. Pointed the way, she told them NO. She was safe and did what her coach told her to do which was to go to second. She told them she knew the game and was not to go to third until the next player hit the ball. After about 5 mins of them agruing with a 4 year old who was not going to budge. They had a 12 yr old bunt the ball and told my daughter on the 12 field to run to third and then home. Then she returned to the right field.

Yes, I have it all on video. We show it when ever we get the chance.

[dustyshoes]

That video needs to be posted! Send it NumeroUno or Buckethead if you will lets us put it in the video section here.

I'm sure that would be a great video but I wonder how sprtsbimbo's DD would feel about it. Gotta love a kid who listens to her coach no matter what.

[DonnieS]

A future star, but 6 at the time, she was at 3rd base. Her helmet was too big and rolled around on her head. I leaned over and said 'Ok sweetie, as soon as she hits the ball, you run as hard as you can to home. We need this run ! '

The ball is hit and away she goes, across the field - heading for the parking lot, crying all the way. I signaled her mom who ran her down - the mom came back and said "Well coach, you told her to go home if the little girl up to bat hit the ball, we got the hit, and now my daughter is sad because she wasnt ready to go home yet! '

[DonnieS]

I had a mixed team of t-ball kids, 5 and 6 years old. I had a great group, very enthusiastic. One guy, Carlos, would just stare at me when I talked to the kids, his dad told me he was so excited that he got to play sports, they had told him when he was 6, he could start playing. So the dad took him to join my little team, he took him to a basketball game, and he took him to a hockey game and he took him to watch a friday night football game, explaining each sport to little Carlos. He loved it all - but became confused which his dad and I didnt realise.

Turns out that every time the ball was hit, who ever got the ball, and at that age you know how long that could take, here comes Carlos across the baseball field and would tackle the kid with the ball. After a few of the other parents got a little ticked off with the tackles (which were very good by the way), I sat him down and his dad and I figured out that we had to explain a) how to tell the difference between football and baseball, b) how to differentiate between your own team and the other guys, and c) we did not want any hockey sticks around the baseball field.

I see Carlos every so often now, he has fallen in love with Soccer. Thank God.

[fasterpitch92701]

geezzz, the funny stories are hard to match.

On a "best" catagory, I have two, not because they are phenominal plays but because they stand out in my memory as "special" (good or bad).

#1. Runner rounding third, DD catching. Throw from right field hits something between home and pitchers mound taking a wicked, weird bounce, deflecting about 40 degrees into a backstop that is a bit closer than normal to home. No one else on defense near home. DD runs the short distance to the backstop and then... for reasons I will never know... senses that the runner is coming in (screaming from the crowd??) and no one is there to help. She grabs the ball in her glove (back facing home) and then leaps backward, twisting to face/chest down and blindly extends the glove/ball out in front of her to where she thought home plate might be. Glove lands 4-5 inches from the plate, 3rd base side, and the runner slides into it. Out. Once she got the dirt out of helmet her and mouth, and untangled from the runner, the ump and coach as players wanted to know how she knew where and why to jump. She just scrugged.

#2. 14U Runner on second taking LONG leads trying to bait a throw from the catcher (DD) to 2nd, at which time the runner was (obviously) intending to go to third. After this long lead happened about 3 times, DD got up to throw the ball back to the pitcher, runner did that slow creap towards third, DD takes 2-3 steps toward the pitcher to throw the ball back to the pitcher, but didn't. DD starts running toward the runner who starts going towards third. DD fakes a throw to third, runner (AND 3rd base coach) bites on it and runner reverses, DD fakes a throw to 2nd, runner bites (shouldn't have been looking...) and reverses (again) ... DD still running at the runner, getting closer. Again, runner AND coach (yelling) bite on the fake throw to third. By this time the crowd is in meyhem mode, base coach going nuts, our coach telling DD to throw the ball, lots of screaming, DD keeps running at the base runner. Runner makes a final desparate attempt to get back to second and is run down by the catcher who is fairly quick even in her gear. Unassisted put out of a runner attempting a steal between 2nd and 3rd by the catcher. Hummmm.... There are probably 91 different (read; MUCH better) ways that should have been done, offense and defense, but it did provide several minutes of anguish and levity for the crowd, depending on the side. And this was against a 14U team that was well respected and doing well in the tourney... Some parents laughing, some holding their heads in the hands and saying "no-no-no"... gawd, I wish I had that on video tape. Damn.

Hey, there are MUCH better stories than this out there. Come on, don't be shy. Silly counts. Blunders count. Talent optional. Spill the beans...

[FPdaddy]

We are playing 10U, my DD was 8 and playing SS. Runner on first no outs. Batter hits a ball that the catcher fields and heaves toward second base. My DD covers the bag perfectly and the runner runs into the tag, gets up and trots toward her dugout. Problem is...the ball is rattling around in center field! The first base coach is jumping up and down trying to get his players attention. Our coach is jumping up and down trying to get the CF'ers attention. Both sets of stands are laughing hysterically.

This story is from basketball. 3rd and 4th grade school team...just about everyone plays at this age. We had a little boy who was small, skinny, uncoordinated and wore thick glasses. He rarely touched the ball. Anyway, he somehow picked up a loose offensive rebound and proceeded to run to the opposing teams basket and took a shot (that thankfully didn't go in). Our coach called a timeout to ask the kid what happened. He responded that there were too many players around our basket so it made sense to take a shot at the other basket.

Keith

[Sam]

We were playing 1st year 14U, playing at a tournament I believe. DD is pitching. We get the final out of the inning and DD sprints into the dugout, approaches me..."I've got to pee really bad." I tell her sorry, but she's going to have to wait until after she hits because she is leading off this inning. She's mad, but she goes up to hit....she's miserable....the pitcher gets ahead 1-2....and my DD proceeds to foul off the next 12 pitches....hopping up and down with a grimace on her face as she tries not to embarass herself in front of God and everybody...she doubles on the next pitch....and before I can say "Blue can I get a runner for my pitcher"....she is already gone....in the bathroom. Blue smiled and told me to get my runner out there.

[mayhemdad]

My best moment I can remember of my 11 year old was when she was 8 still playing coaches pitch.Two weeks before opening day she breaks her wrist at school and so I take her to the doc who says come back in 2 weeks to see how it is healing.The 2 weeks go by and he says not good enough yet come back in another week.At this point in time she is dying to play and not real happy at the doctor.Next visit he says she can play,man I never saw a kid so happy as she was.She tells her coach I can play and so for some reason he puts her in at SS for the game, remember she has a cast on and cant grip the ball correctly, first couple batters hit right to her she gets the ball and throws them out at first had no idea she had been practicing how to throw with a cast on as I would not let her until released by the doctor.So here comes the last inning of the game 2 outs runner on 3rd my DD up, first swing I felt the wind from the bat, second swing little dinky foul still a hard swing.At this time I call time to talk to her, I tell her she can not hit it out and this is her moment she wanted the game depends on her you hit it we win you strike out we lose.Seems like a lot of pressure to put on her but that is how she likes it, next pitch comes in and she makes great contact and we win the game, she passes me with the biggest smile that I had seen to that date.

Another one is with my 9 year old DD I bought her a new bat and she couldnt wait to use it.She is playing coaches pitch also and her second game she hits the ball and I swear it went 180 as did the coaches of the other team.After that game every team put the outfielders at the fence when she got up it was the funniest thing I ever saw.

My best memory of my 12 year old is pretty simple and easy one it was the first time she hit the ball off a live pitcher and when she caught her first fly ball.

My 11 year old is all softball and now plays travel, my 9 year old is out for the fun and my 12 year old has no idea what she wants to do.

[KT93]

Hands down the funniest moment in our softball journey to date.
DD was 10 playing pick up with a 12u team. Big tournament, finals of the winners bracket so there was a bunch of people watching the game. DD was pitching and the game was close. Time had expired & all DD's team had to do was get 3 outs & keep the other team from scoring 2 runs. First batter grounds out to 1B. Second batter comes up & hits a grounder in the SS direction. DD makes a nice back hand stab & fields it cleanly. She comes up & fires the ball to 1st.... high throw, batter safe at 1st. Next batter comes up & bunts back to pitcher. DD fields the ball & this time over throws 1st by about 20 feet. Ball clears fence, goes into next field & stops play there. Now runners are on 2nd & 3rd (2 bases awarded for the ball leaving the field) & i am blowing a gasket, screamed a few words of encouragement at DD. Next batter comes up & once again bunts to DD & she once again over throws first. (ball stays on our field this time & we even get an out at 2nd) By this time I am fit to be tied... I remembering yelling out "you better not throw another one away... I dont care if you have to roll it to 1st, just get it there" next batter up, you know hits a dinker to DD.... I swear the next part happened in slow motion.... DD looks directly at me then bends down & slowly ROLLS the ball to first for the 3rd out. If I could have stopped laughing I would have killed her...