In our continuing journey to prepare for our trip to Cooperstown, I’ve been taking Stephen to do extra workouts regularly. After work on Thursday of last week we went up to the Flowery Branch High School field to take some reps. They have batting cages up there but unfortunately, they don’t leave their L-Screens in the cages. They only get those out of the Field House when they need to use them. For those of you who might not know, the L-Screen is that thing that you see pitchers stand behind when they are throwing batting practice. And as you can see, based on the picture, they really are necessary.

While I was pitching to Stephen, he blistered a ball right into my ankle on my right foot. YES, there was a quick “vocabulary” lesson. (I am human). But I really thought that there might have been some bone damage immediately. It still hurts really bad and as you can see, it doesn’t look real nice either. I would say that I learned my lesson from this but I can’t really. Once I got over the initial pain, I threw him another bucket of balls. That is until he hit me on the outside of my left knee. That’s when I decided it was time to work on letting him do some pitching.

Cooperstown, NY….4 days and counting.