Wellesley Little League Boys Baseball Opens Season

Opening Day for Wellesley Little League Baseball started on a beautiful afternoon at Kelly I, Kelly III,  Ouellet, Schofield and Reidy Fields Saturday, April 24, with games, no fanfare.

At Reidy Field, spectators trickled in with lawn chairs around 5 p.m. as Red Sox and Nationals players warmed up on the field and listened to pep talks in the dugouts. Eric Winer, coach for the Red Sox, delivered his team's talk, and Rob Sureli, coach for the Nationals, gathered his team in a semicircle to brief his team on the game

A short distance nearby, the sporadic traffic on Washington Street passed unnoticed as one of the first five games of the season got started.

By the end of the second inning, there were about 60 people, and a few dogs, attending the event. On the Red Sox side of the field, Mimi Eldridge watched her son, Matt, wind up to deliver a pitches for the Nationals batters.

"My stomach's always in knots, every time he pitches," she said.

The Red Sox won, 14-3, according to the Wellesley Little League website