Day Five Hundred and Ninety-One

The Fourth Start and First Bag

He's baaaa-aaaaack!

I just love when he's home.

Mostly because I can scream at him from the stands. Hahaha ;) Kidding.

He didn't need to be screamed at yesterday. Ok, well, maybe just once. But instead, I just covered my eyes. Adam - it's well known - has been working and working and working on his slider. Well this week was just a little different. Not in the fact that he was working on it, but that he changed it. Adam actually went back to his old slider...the one he threw from age 8-18...the one he threw before he played college ball. The one he knows. For the last 4 years, Adam has been constantly readjusting his slider in order to find some comfort and consistency in it. All without much progress. So he's gone back to the old days. And he's really really excited about it (me too!). The only downside of this change is that he just hasn't practiced it for quite some time. So yesterday, after throwing three in a row, a dude got a hold of one and ripped it to left field. And over the wall. Home run. Boooo. Adam had a shutout going before that hit...it was in the fifth inning and we were up 3-0. He left that inning with the score 3-2, having thrown 75 total pitches. His line for the night:

5IP, 4H, 2R, 2ER, 1HR, 0BB, 4K

WAHOO!!!

His first professional bag EVER!

In Adam's first at-bat of the day, he drew a walk and found himself on first base, 90 feet later! He still doesn't have a hit, but this is certainly progress!

In his second at-bat, Adam came to the plate with BASES LOADED.

I yelled out to him, "It's batting practice Babe!"

AND...

He struck out.

 Grand slam possibility no more. Rats.