The Mental Game Never Takes a Weekend Off (Even When You Wish It Would)
Nothing is on the calendar. Not Saturday, not Sunday, not the Saturday after that. Summer ball ended on the 26th and fall ball does not open until the 22nd, which leaves a stretch of days with no innings in them—no pressure situations to practice bouncing back from, no bad calls to learn to let go of, no noisy dugouts to practice staying locked in through.
Your daughter found the pool nine days ago and has not mentioned that strikeout since. You have mentioned it eight times. You are not counting. You have a rough sense.
Here's the thing: those mental skills—the ones she's building all season long—they atrophy faster than you think. The confidence after getting hit by a pitch and stepping back in? It fades. The focus she learned in a chaotic dugout? It gets dusty. The routine she developed to shake off a tough at-bat? Forgotten.
The break isn't a break from baseball. It's a break from practicing the mental game. And that's the part that's actually destroying you—not the missing games, but the missing reps at resilience, trust, and composure.
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Originally published at Mind & Muscle
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