SOUTH WILLIMSPORT, PA — Nevada manager TJ Fechser says every game has an inflection point, that moment on which everything turns.
Pitcher Garrett Gallegos had just tagged out a hitter on a diving play as part of a wild fifth-inning sequence. That was it, Fechser says.
But in kids' sports, if coaches handle them right, we always get our chance to grab for more big moments.
There were now two outs and Gallegos had one more batter. His team was ahead by two runs. He said something to himself and got a swinging strikeout to end the Fairfield (Connecticut) threat.
“The whole sequence was really emotional,” the young right-handed pitcher said after the game, “thinking that was just the last out of me pitching ever pitching in Little League. It was very sentimental and like very sad, almost. But it was exciting at the same time, all the emotions together.”
