While Mason has been playing baseball of some sort since he was four, he has finally started to play kid pitch.  This year we decided to play our 8U team up into the 9U rec league so that the kids could get a head start on pitching.  I was warned by a lot of people about how boring it will be, but I have actually found these games to be much more enjoyable than the coach pitch games.  Part of that may be due to it being recreational and so we can focus more on development, but the other part is largely due to it being actual baseball and watching the kids pitch.  It also helps that we are winning.  🙂  This past Saturday Mason took a stab at pitching and he completed 2 innings (the max allowed) and struck out three while giving up 2 earned runs.