Good morning Tigers, 

Hamburgers, hotdogs, and fireworks the all-American day. 

"There was only one-night game a year. On the 4th of July, the whole sky would brighten up with fireworks, giving us just enough light for a game. We played our best then because, I guess, we all felt like the big leaguers under the lights of some great stadium." 

- Sandlot 


In this week's Tiger Rundown:

1. Play at the plate! (Play of the week from Tyler, TX) 

2. We sniffed out a sneaky runner (Team Play of the Week) 

3. Two Tigers Commit (Tiger Players) 

   
Written by Spiker Helms 

POV: when the tourney director gives you two doubleheaders in the afternoon on turf 









Tiger Teams

We beat the heat

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LocationTeamPlaceSport
Nashville, TN13U Taylor 1st Baseball | Perfect Game Midwest Regional Championships
Kansas City, MO17U Scout 2ndBaseball | KCPI Tourney at Creekside 
Nashville, TN 11U Veteteo1stBaseball | Independence Day Tournament at Ripken Experience 
Northern Illinois11U Walker1stBaseball | Battle for the Border at Rock Sports Complex
Kansas City, MO16U Armstrong1stBaseball | Baseball Nationals at Myrtle Beach
Columbus, OH12U Messer1stBaseball | 
St. Louis, MO16U Quatro 1st Baseball | Game Day USA World Series
Sacramento, CA17U Pinckney1stBaseball | 4th of July Tourney 
Southern Indiana15U Quatro 1st Baseball
Indianapolis, IN16U Green1stBaseball | Ohio Valley Super Prep Championships 
Salt Lake City, UTSLC Class of 20272ndBaseball | NCS World Series

Championship Region Tracker Chase: 

1st Place: 3 points | 2nd Place: 2 points | 3rd Place: 1 point

Central Region: 216
South Region: 64
North Region: 53

West Region: 40 
East Region: 32   
   

Map of Regions
Exception: Northern Illinois and Chicago area are in the Northern Region 





Picture of the Week - 13U Omaha Tigers

Is this heaven? 

No, it's Iowa. 

13U Omaha Tigers pose for a picture before one of their games at the battle of Field of Dreams tournament. (See the post from their head coach Marcus Schmidt)





Play of the Week- 
17U Tyler, Texas






Play at the plate! Collin Estes, from Tyler, Texas, throws a bullet from centerfield. (watch it here) 

Team Play of the Week- 17U Velo St. Louis 

First and third with two outs and some sneaky base running happened. Tyson Oswald sniffed it out and got Paul Pratte involved. See the full play.

Pictured is Paul Pratte throwing the ball to Gavin Mabe to catch the runner heading home. 


Information is sourced from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, searching #rawlingstigers and rawlings tigers. Please tag us on your posts! We also source it from the team performance page.





Tiger Players

Two Tigers Commit, and Salt Lake Shows Out

10U Softball girls make waves in Southern Indiana. We have Tiger committed to D1 and another to a JUCO. Lastly, Las Cruces is now known as "The City of Triples." 

Twitter, IG, Facebook, TikTok: Use #rawlingstigers or tag our main account in your posts. For players who want to get recruited and get your tweet retweeted, tag @recruittigers

Pro tip: if you have multiple videos to tweet, do this.

|Committed 

Logan Bingham: Southern Indiana Tiger and Tiger National Team participant will be competing in Conference USA with Middle Tennessee State in 2025

Landen Young: Salt Lake City Tiger is heading to Waubonsee Community College!

 

|Salt Lake City PBR Showcase

Tigers are on display. They showed up and showed out, with many of them hitting personal bests. 

Raul Zapata: The catcher and middle infielder put on an impressive display of his defense to earn him a spotlight video on PBR Utah's Twitter account. 


|18U

Colby Mingus:  Cali Tiger unloads on this ball 

Lupe Gonzalez: this swing plays 


|17U 

Jayden Good: KC Tiger consistently pounding the zone in the upper 8's 

Colin Hornback: Indy Tiger is putting a great season together, batting .406 and getting on base almost 50% of the time.

Drew Snyder: KC Tiger with a triple. His team went 6-1 in one of the top tourneys in KC. 

Derek Rocket: there's something about lefty oppo swings. StL Tiger extends the lead for his team.

Connor Lovin: big props from the tourney director 

Trey Schilling: StL Tiger with the web gem


|16U

Hayden Gilmore: Uncommitted outfielder goes ya-ya two-handed finish 

Trey Jozwiakowski: Cya-sauce. Mizzou Commit goes oppo taco 

Tyre McClain: Indy Tiger sends this into the next county 

Alyssa Gale: Northern Illinois Tiger puts on a hitting clinic 

Jackson Cline: this Indy Tiger and Alyssa should start a business and run hitting clinics. They were both collecting hits on every field they played at.  

Sean O'Brien: Stl Tiger helps his team win a championship by slashing .545 on the weekend and throwing scoreless inning on the mound. 

Dennis Muraida: Chicago Tiger smashes this ball off the wall.

Adam Streicher: shuts down his 18U opponents. See the full highlight.

Eli Craft: golden glove award 

Jaydon Hernandez: New Mexico Tiger wanted to send this one into the mountains

Josue Ramirez: Las Cruces should now be known as Triple City 


|15U

Michael Pettit: Chicago Tiger with 11K's in 7 innings pitched. YES SIR!

Kolton Swaim: Launched! Quad City Tiger puts this into orbit and almost catches one of the runners at second. 

Bryson Barclay: Bunt! Sike! Slashing a double down the line. New Mexico Tiger pretends to play small ball.

Adrian Esquivel: New Mexico Tiger takes advantage of the lines

Jaydon Fernandez: dead center in the desert 

Kaleb Guerrero: Everyone in New Mexico can hit. Put this in the books as a triple. 


|14U 

Colton Wolff: Stl Tiger goes .600 for the weekend at Lake Point. Giddy up! 


|10U 

Kinsley Sipes: 9k's!!! Bring the heat in Southern Indiana. 

Ava Shauver: Behind the shoulder catch! At 10U! Say what?!?

Tiger Player Profile: use your player profile as your central hub to host your metrics from Perfect Game, PBR, and your videos. It's a landing page specifically designed for you to showcase your skills. Log into your Rawlings Tigers VIP to start editing. Here's a great example of a well-done player profile: Mason Orton's 


*Information sourced from Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook with posts that use the #rawlingstigers or tag our main account. 

From the Rundown

Place It In The Middle Before Your Partner Does.  

Can you do this? Mom of games is back! 9U Tulsa Tiger's mom recorded one of her son's training sessions where they were balancing on bosu ball (Watch) 




That's it for this Rundown. See you next week.

P.S. Last note: Get your posts retweeted by tagging @recruittigers on your tweets 


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Written by: Spiker Helms 
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