I will ask for your forgiveness on the front end. I know this is gonna come off as a dad bragging on his kid, and I guess I am. Son's high school team got off to a rough start. Son did not pitch much early in the season as he was having a little tightness in his shoulder and his coach was being cautious. He was a bit rusty in his first couple of outings in relief. As the region games started, he got his first start in game 2 of a doubleheader against the #8 ranked team in the state. We only had 1 region win at the time and an overall record of 2-8. He pitched a complete game giving up no runs with 13K's and 3BB. Two weeks later is where the craziness began. He pitched another complete game giving up only 1 hit, 0ER, 13K's, 2BB but lost the game 1-0. Tonight, karma! He pitched yet another complete game, 6hits, 5K's, 0BB, 0ER and we won 1-0 without a hit. I'm sorry that this sounds so "sappy", but I am very proud of my boy. Even though the team, son included, has not hit the ball the way we are capable of, our pitching has kept us in most games. We have a couple of other guys on the team that have pitched the front end of the double headers and thrown exceptional as well. Our last 3 region loses have been 1-0, 1-0 and 2-1. Our region record now stands at 6-6 which doesn't seem very impressive, but when you look at the loses, we have been in every game and could be 10-2 very easy. One of the loses was on a walk off 2 run homer. Oh well, this is why I love this crazy game so much. Hopefully I will not get beat up too badly for the "bragging".