Baseball in Pittsburgh

Karen and Isa went to a baseball game in Pittsburgh. Beautiful night! Karen says that Pittsburgh lost, but the fireworks were spectacular.

Nationals

Morning coffee in my Washington DC mug in honor of the Nationals who won the World Series! Yay Nationals!!

Nationals Game

Great game!

Precious Past Picture

Gregory Mecca posted this old photo on Instagram. Jean-Luc is carrying him!

North Florida Storm Baseball

The Storm Gray had a tournament in Greenville, SC this week. Anton couldn't make it until Friday because he had a final exam for his last class for his Associate's degree. I flew in from New Orleans, but that's another story... Anyways, his Storm team had already lost two games before we got there. He had two games on Friday.

Game 1: Anton came in as a relief pitcher in this game. Sadly, his 16 week no runs scored streak came to an end when they scored a run on him. And, the Storm lost, 10 - 4.

Game 2: Anton got to play first base as a bunch of his team came late, and Coach Coleman was mad. He made the late players run every time the Storm were up to bat. Anton did great! However, the Storm lost, 5 - 4

North Florida Storm Baseball

Anton's travel ball team played in a tournament this weekend. Sadly, they didn't win the tournament, but they did win a game! It was the game that Anton pitched a complete game, and he pitched a shutout! The final score was for the Storm, 6 - 0. And they lost the other game.

North Florida Storm Baseball

The next day, Anton got to be the starting pitcher for the second game. He pitched 3 innings. He did pretty good. He allowed 2 walks, but they won the game, 4-2!

North Florida Storm Baseball

Jacksonville mini-tournament, first of the season. Sadly, Anton's team lost both games this day. But Anton got to play first base and bat. He got a single to center field!

Southern Virginia Baseball

Anton finally played in a game! The last inning of the last game.

Opening Day

It's Opening Day for baseball. A picture of my son, Anton.

Anton!

After my DC trip, I stayed the weekend to see Anton. He had two games on Saturday, and I was hoping that he would play. He did not. And SVU lost both games. Sad.

But I did have a wonderful time with Anton and his girlfriend Mariah. And I got to see Brevin again, and meet a ton of the ball players. Everyone was so nice!

Anton and SVU Baseball

Anton is listed on the roster page for SVU Baseball!

Southern Virginia University Baseball

First picture of Anton in his SVU baseball uniform! He is a handsome boy.

North Florida Storm Baseball

They played in Vero Beach over the Independence Day holiday.  Anton's team won two and lost 3, so they weren't in the playoffs.  Anton pitched in one game on the Fourth of July.  He did pretty good.  He pitched two innings, and then the game was forfeited by the other team because apparently their batter made a questionable gesture and the umpire threw him out of the game, then their coach forfeited.  Weird.

One of the games they won was the game Anton pitched in.  He also got to bat in both games on July 3rd.  In the first game, he hit a single to right center and a hit by the pitch with an RBI. The coach brought in all the pitchers to bat, and they scored 4 out of 6 runs!  In the second game, Anton gets on with a chopper to third error and a hit to short error.

North Florida Storm Baseball

Anton has played in a few tournaments already.  The photos are from last week when we went to North Charleston.  They won two games, tied one, and lost one.  Didn't get into the Championships though.  Anton pitched four innings in one game.

This week, Anton and Bill are in Alpharetta, GA just outside of Atlanta.  It's the East Cobb tournament.  Doing pretty well so far.  In the first game, Anton was the starting pitcher.  He pitched 5 innings and had 1 run, 4 walks, 4 strikeouts all looking, and 1 error.  They won, 5-2.  They lost the second game, 6-3.  And won the third game, 2-1.  Now they're in the playoffs against the other NFS team.

*Update: They won against the other NFS team, but lost the semi-final.

MISLL Baseball District 22 Championships

For the District 22 Championships, Anton's team won the first game (16-3) but lost the second (6-7) and third (8-10) to Pt St John.  Anton did not pitch at all.  He played third and short in the first two games, and caught an inning in the first game.  He was not at the third game because he was at a travel ball tournament over the weekend.  He batted great the first game, not so much the second.

Back: Coach Iacabucci, Griffin Kindred, Matty Robertson, Anton, Ben Hanson, Mark Stutts, Anthony Norris, Coach Kindred
Ryan Boss, Alec Piloto, Anthony Iacabucci, AJ Child, Chance Ferguson

MISLL Baseball

Sorry!  Posting about this game late.  I have no details, but here's some pictures.

MISLL Baseball

Anton played a game against Viera 1 last night.  They won, 7-6, in a hard fought battle.  Viera got the first two runs, then MISLL came back to score 4 runs in the third inning.  Viera scored 4 runs in the fifth inning to go ahead by 2, then MISLL scored 3 runs in the bottom of the sixth to go ahead by 1.  Viera couldn't score in the top of the seventh, so MISLL won!

Anton played catcher for four innings (1, 2, 3, and 7), shortstop for one inning (5), and center field for 1 inning (6).  He sat out for the fourth inning.  He had made one put out as short stop.  He caught a fly ball for the third out in the fifth inning.

At the plate, he was 2 for 3 with a dropped third strikeout (the catcher threw it to first base for an out), a hit by pitch, and a fielder's choice.  He got an RBI for the hit by pitch (bases were loaded).  And he scored a run eventually on the fielder's choice.

MISLL Spring Baseball

Anton's team won their game against a tough opponent (South Beach), 12-9.  South Beach started off strong and got up 6 runs in the first inning, but Island Motor Sports played slow and steady and scored a few runs each inning to overcome and win.

Anton hit his first over the fence home run!!  It was a 3 run homer over the fence between center and right field, about 340 feet.  He was 3 for 4 at the plate with 2 singles and the 3 RBI homer.

Out in the field, he played center field for the first two innings, then third base, then first base, then three turns as catcher.  In the second inning as center fielder, he stopped a long shot and threw it back to home plate where the catcher tagged runner sliding in for the third out.  And when he played first base, he made two of the three outs with assists from the pitcher and second baseman.