When Your Kid Strikes Out and Everyone Sees It
The Mets won because Byron Buxton struck out. Thirteenth pitch. The announcers delivered it like a eulogy. Every travel ball parent watching knew exactly how that felt—because they'd lived it from the parking lot bleachers.
Here's what nobody talks about: that moment after the strikeout, when your player walks back to the dugout and the entire sideline is watching. Not judging. Just watching. That's where mental performance actually lives.
The best travel ball players aren't the ones who never strike out. They're the ones who sit down, take a breath, and reset before the next inning. They're the ones whose parents don't replay the at-bat in the car ride home. They're the ones who understand that thirteen pitches means the pitcher was working hard too.
Byron Buxton struck out, and the Mets won anyway. Your kid will strike out this season—probably multiple times. The question isn't whether failure happens. It's what happens in the thirty seconds after.
That's mental training. That's the game within the game.
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Originally published at Mind & Muscle
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