Jesse Bristow and Shane Richins of Team San Diego. |
That stands for Team San Diego, kids.
TSD is a summer baseball program based near San Diego, California that gives young men from youth to collegiate ages the chance to play some competitive ball outside of the school season.
My son Jesse, fresh off his third school in three years (3.5 GPA, hard-working left-handed pitcher--you tell me why this kid can't stick somewhere) is on the roster of the collegiate squad for the first time this season. Summer ball has been good to him--much more so than his last two college seasons--as he went 8-1 with a 1.56 ERA for the Bisbee Ironmen last summer.
He started on the hill in the team's second game last weekend and pitched four innings, giving up one run on four hits and striking out five. Not a bad first outing. TSD, unfortunately, went on to lose the game 2-1 in 13 innings.
Jesse's good friend and high school teammate, Shane Richins is also a member of the team--his third summer in San Diego. Shane is an excellent middle infielder and lead-off hitter, with a collegiate career batting average of .350. The "table-setter" was 9-20 in TSD's first tournament of the season giving him a whopping .450 BA to start.
TSD is back in action this weekend as the season will go into full swing. Jesse is slated to get the ball in the second game of the double header on Saturday and Shane will no doubt be manning one side of the second bag. There may be live streaming available if the connection is good, so if you love to watch baseball like yours truly, then please look in.
Here is the home page for the TSD Collegiate team.
Due to my vested interest in the team, I will have updates here on my blog regularly... so check in everyday! You don't want to miss anything.
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