CH 22

7 Months later it was once again the first day of try outs you could see Jace , Theo , Caleb , and Joe on the field early.

The 4 friends were already warming up. Just as they were done with warm ups rest of the people trying out started coming into view.

Just like the year before the coach had every one run but this time it was only for 3 minutes.

The rest of the tryouts every one went threw a bunch of basic drills

After the rest had left the 4 friends stayed late but this time instead of extra practice they discussed were they could improve the most at.

Jace was his abilities as a catcher Theo was his stamina while on the mound. Caleb and Joe both wanted to get faster.

After that they all just had a casual conversation While Jace came up with their training program for this year.

The next day at try outs the coach had the 4 friends go spend the first part of the day in the batting cages.

After he had the rest of the people trying out do 20 laps around the field he had the 4 friends all go to their positions on the field.

Since they wernt doing anything for pitchers yet both Jace and Theo went to the catcher's area no one joined them. 1 person each joined Caleb and Joe.

Jace and Theo had to catch a few fly balls each. Then the 2 of them started hitting grounders and fly balls to the basemen around the field.

While they were doing this the coaches was doing the same to the outfield.

When it came to pitching the coach asked the rest trying g out of they needed for Jace and Theo to participate. The 3 that was trying out all agreed that the 2 of them didnt need 2.

That being decided Jace and Theo helped catch for the pitchers. The one Jace was catching for had a decent fast ball and a really good knuckle ball.

The one Theo was catching for Threw slow but had a good curve and change up.

The one the coach was catching for only had a fast ball. While it had really good speed he had poor control.

Next was batting practice. Jace, Theo, Caleb, and Joe got to skip thos since they spent a long time in the cages at the beginning of the tryouts.

The 4 didnt go home. Joe and Caleb were taking turns walking in the out field while carrying the other on their back.

Theo was pitching to his heart content even purposely throwing some wildly on purpose. Making Jace have to put in some effort as well.

After Theo started to get tired all 4 of the friends started to lightly jog around the field for 4 laps then do a sprint for 1 lap.

They did this 2 times before the tryouts ended. Everyone was headed home as Jace took the mound and started throwing all of his pitches.

The coaches who were still there just shook there head when they saw the 4 of then Jace pitching Theo throwing the ball to Joe then Joe would throw it to Caleb. Then Caleb would throw it back to Jace.

It looked really repetitive till it had obviously started to speed up. Coach Williams pulled the speed gun out of his bag. on the last round of throwing Jace threw the ball at 115 Theo at 94 Joe at 91 and Caleb at 96.