3rdgen,
He just started throwing the curve in March. When I say the first curve is in the dirt I mean in the dirt in front of the plate and 3 feet outside. I expect a lot out of my catchers but I don't expect them to stop that one. We don't work on the curve all that much and it takes him a while to find it in the pen and then no matter what the first one in a game is in the dirt and outside. Just a mental thing that he'll get over in time but we couldn't afford it in the 4th inning of a tie game with the bases loaded. The 1st two batters in the 5th were gone quickly and we did try to get the curve working on the next hitter but never got it established in the hitter's minds. Then he started out the 6th inning getting behind on hitters.
Garry,
We're playing in a Pony 13 warmup tournament. It looks like we'll be the 3 seeds from our bracket after pool play. A little luckier draw and we could have easily been the 1 seed from our bracket. We're the B team and our A team will almost certainly be the 1 seed from the other bracket.