Outstanding tournament in a great park. Too bad so many times it ends up with pitchers over doing it.
Watching Edwards and Duty COMPETE in the first couple games was very impressive. They got those two wins, but threw a lot of pitches doing it. Duty was definitely running on adrenelan the first game he pitched. He was mid 80s the whole way, but when he got in trouble in the 8th, he started throwing 87-88. He had to be tired because he was well over 100 pitches. So he was tired and throwing as hard as he could. This is how serious injuries happen in many cases.
It's great to watch kids compete like that and at the same time it's sort of sad. I hope both those kids recover without any long term problems.
At some point, young baseball pitchers need to be protected from the "winning is everything" mentality.
On a brighter note, these kids and the team from Virginia really opened some eyes. High class bunch of competitors who put on a good show. They appeared to be well coached too.
In the interest of a few pitchers and using hind sight, it might have been better had they lost one game earlier. I'm sure the coach is praying that no one is seriously injured.