Personal Narrative-My Baseball Tournament

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As my dad and I were traveling to my biggest tournament of the year in Emerson, Georgia, I was anxious and pretty nervous. Not only was I nervous about how I was going to perform, I was anxious about how my teammates were going to do and if we were going to win. It took my team lots of preparation, but at the end of the day, it is how well you perform in clutch situations and also how good your attitude is. After a subpar performance on the first day of my baseball tournament, not only was I frustrated with myself, I was frustrated with my team. Walking back to the car with my dad, I was sharing my opinion about how I performed, but also how my teammates performed as well. My dad was not fond of my attitude and was slowly getting frustrated …show more content…
After the bottom of the 2nd inning was over and we were all running into the dugout, the 3rd basemen from my team apologized to the coaches, pitcher, and some other players. Instead of watching him go around apologizing for his mistakes, I went up to talk to him and said, “It is fine man, there will be another groundball hit to you. You are a great player! You are human and everyone makes mistakes, take a deep breath and get the next one.” His facial expression flipped like a switch as he struck a smile. Leading into the final game of the tournament, I was performing super well, but even yet I am still super competitive and want to win whenever I’m on the field. In preparation for the final game of the tournament, I was stretching and playing catch with one of my teammates. It was about five minutes before the first pitch and I just finished playing catch. All of a sudden I heard from one of my teammates, “Pete, your dad is trying to get your attention.” I ran back over to the dugout and I saw my dad, he was holding two big Gatorades and a protein bar. He handed them over to me and said “Good luck kid, you got
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