5/8/2023 0 Comments Elsewhere Girls by Emily Galeteacher, have been a rotating array of volunteers and Spanish instructors, the team using the simplest of lineups last year: The first baseman hit first, second baseman second, and so on. Their “coaches,” before Cortez was hired as a P.E. At Washington Prep, where about a quarter of the community in surrounding Westmont lives in poverty, baseball has exactly one non-forfeit win since the 2014 season. For the last two decades, there might not be a worse baseball team in the entire City Section. Hope is hard to come by, because this is life at the bottom. On, because he is quite literally standing on first base, and Varela motions for him to move over, position himself off of the base. The pitcher, scared of hitting his coach, lobs offering after offering into the dirt into the opposite batter’s box.Įlsewhere, parent Catalina Varela, who’s stopped by after work, calls to a kid shagging balls on first base. To give his pitchers some live-batter simulation, he steps into the box, urging a kid on the mound to throw the ball over the plate. Washington Prep’s baseball team has the day off Thursday afternoon, and new head coach Erik Cortez has assembled but a handful of frolicking players for a pseudo-practice. Hope is hard to come by, out here, where weeds twist up from the dirt mound and the coach carries not a bucket but a tiny pail of usable baseballs.
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