Alrighty guys, update:
Aiden has seemingly been more 'on the ball' in practice lately, in the cage mostly. He's also been pretty hard on himself because other kids are hitting their first dingers (in practice) while Aiden hasn't gotten his first in-game homer.
Anyways, this weekend the team played in a big Tournament (Perfect Game) but the local event. Aiden's team was not expected to do well against much stiffer competition.
Game 1 was versus a good team and Aiden hit an absolute bomb (240') to center that bounced off a sidewalk and landed on the other field where a game was going on.
Aiden's first homer - YouTube
Aiden then got up again in the game and on the first pitch which was high, Aiden swung and muscled the ball out just clearing the RC fence.
Aiden's second homer - YouTube
He was on fire. In the second game he struck out getting fooled on a curveball and then smoked a line out to the second baseman.
On Sunday they saw one of their rivals and Aiden came up after the team went down 6-0 and he hit a rocket launcher to RC 240' (no video) and the team went on to score 5 runs and finished the game with a 8-7 win!
Their next game was against nationally-ranked 5-star Flowers.
Runtime Error Aiden did not hit one out but he did hit their pitcher for a smoked grounder right over second base for a single. The Outfielder misplayed it as well and Aiden ended up on second on the error.
He finished the tournament going 4-7 with 3 HR's and a single and someone said was in the conversation for Tournament MVP. He was batting 11 out of 12 in the lineup due to his struggles so maybe he can move up in the lineup and get more opportunities assuming this continues.
If I take out the tough times and just filter the stats from 4/10 until now, so about 30 days, he's batting .519, .567 obp, .926 slg, & 1.493 OPS which mostly puts him batting second in stats on the team for the past month.
Something seems to have switched on for a month so hopefully he can continue to grow it.