![]() He always does – and he made the most of it. “I’ve pretty much played everywhere.”įriday night against Conception Bay South his coaches asked if he wanted the ball. “It felt like a nice reunion for me to be back where it all started,” said Lewis. His love for baseball started on the mounds and fields that make up Grand Falls-Windsor baseball. That weekend he was a Brave again and he couldn’t have been happier. Not once was he afforded the opportunity to wear the green and gold of his hometown team until the 2019 Baseball NL Junior Provincial Baseball Championships held July 19-20 in St. Since then, he's donned uniforms for Gander, Pasadena, Corner Brook and others. There weren’t enough players his age to form a team when Lewis started his baseball journey. It was around the second year of his bantam division year that he stopped being a member of the Braves. Lewis hadn’t worn the jersey since he was about 14. He didn’t know what it felt like to make the walk as a member of the Grand Falls-Windsor Braves. Yet, there is something Lewis didn’t know about that walk until he stepped out of the first base dugout at St. ![]() The 21-year-old pitcher from Grand Falls-Windsor knows how many steps it takes to get there, when the nerves start coming through and what step officially starts his warmup. ![]() Michael Lewis delivers a pitch to the plate during his start in the 2019 provincial baseball championships. The walk from the dugout to the bullpen to the pitcher’s mound is a familiar one for Michael Lewis. ![]()
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