Stacking up

Today was Darby's first baseball practice (well, second, but she had to miss the first). The concern, of course, was whether she'd hold up well being the only girl on her team, or if she'd have issues of self-consciousness.

Fortunately she did quite well. She did not perform without flaw (see example below), but I have difficulty complaining overall. In particular she surprised pretty much everyone (myself included) by snagging a ground-ball zinger that was hit VERY hard by the biggest kid on the team. She fielded the ball and got it to first without much delay. She played third base most of the practice, and didn't have too much trouble adjusting (vs softball field size for example).



Her hitting was okay, needing some adjustment to the smaller ball, but she did better towards the end.



So did she stack up? For the most part, I think so. There are a couple boys that are just too big for her to contend with, but most of the others are about her size and with similar or lesser skills. I think she's going to be able to contribute.