Personal Narrative: My Last Game Of The Tournament

Towards the end of the school year after my success on the baseball field lead to my summer coach asking me to play for his summer team again, I thought to myself, maybe I’ll prove to him I am good enough to play in Florida and surpass his expectations. So the summer starts the first game I sit, the next game I sit, then finally the last game of the tournament I sit. At this point I asked him, “why did I not get a chance to pitch?” he said, well there are too many pitchers to get you in this tournament. I said okay thinking nothing of it. Now to the next tournament, I was Going into this thinking, I’m going to get to start a game maybe most of a game. But was I wrong, I pitched a total of 1 inning this tournament out of 4 games. At this point I was getting frustrated with him for not playing me. Besides the point of not playing much this year, I still asked about playing in Florida

After this meeting I decided to do my own thing I left the team. Just because of that one game and what he said I left the team, but also my coach played me 9 innings though out the entire year, from the West Virginia trip and about 10 tournaments’. This equaled about 50 games all year and I got 9 innings, which is about one game and a half. I was done with my coach. The summer was half the way over, all I wanted almost more than anything to prove my summer coach wrong, 100% wrong and let him know. I set off looking for colleges in Florida. I knew this was going to be a challenge, but in the end I found one college. Even better I got a scholar ship to play baseball in Florida, at Southeastern university. I finally reached my goal and most importantly, I proved my coach wrong after everything he said making this a significant accomplishment in my life. After this, I have the scholar-ship and I know my summer league coach heard about it, I still never heard a congratulations or good job from him, despite proving him completely