{"id":6068,"date":"2019-07-26T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T00:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000000070"},"modified":"2019-07-27T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T20:25:39","slug":"youth-baseball-roundup-championships-and-the-1-batgirl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/hi-lo\/youth-baseball-roundup-championships-and-the-1-batgirl","title":{"rendered":"Youth Baseball Roundup: Championships and the #1 Batgirl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Heartwell Park youth baseball 15U All-Star team doesn\u2019t go anywhere without their bat girl Lyndsey Ingram. Right now, they\u2019re trying to reach the World Series together.<\/p>\n

Lyndsey, who has Down Syndrome, has been the bat girl for her twin brother Landon\u2019s Heartwell All-Star teams for nearly five years. The first year she was in the dugout, the team reached a regional tournament. She\u2019s been there ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe became their little good luck charm,\u201d said Lyndsey\u2019s mother, Lynette Ingram. \u201cI like to say she\u2019s the dugout manager. She gets the bats, helps do the lineup and bosses the boys around.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome and it\u2019s my favorite job,\u201d Lyndsey said. \u201cMy favorite part is running out and being cheered on by the crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lyndsey Ingram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After repeating as the Babe Ruth Southern California State Champions earlier this month, the Heartwell 15U All-Stars traveled to Bakersfield this week for the Pacific Southwest Regional. A tournament victory would send Heartwell to the Babe Ruth World Series in North Dakota next month.\u00a0Felipe Figueroa has been coaching this group since they were 12U All-Stars and by that time Lyndsey was already a hallmark of the squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we do anything with the team she\u2019s always included,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cAny time we get new jerseys or hats she always gets a pair because she\u2019s part of the team. It\u2019s all equal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Landon joked that it\u2019s fun to have his twin sister in the dugout, \u201cuntil she drinks all of the Gatorade,\u201d but that he and his teammates take their responsibility of watching out for Lyndsey very seriously. During a game earlier this week in Bakersfield, the boys noticed she was getting overheated and sent her to back to the stands where Lynette had some shade and bags of ice waiting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe boys love her,\u201d Figueroa said. \u201cThey also play around with her like she\u2019s one of the boys on the team. Even the new kids that come along for the All-Star teams just fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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