Inverary ace to be a ringer for New York team at fastball tourney in Fargo

Jul 26, 2017

Kyle Ainsley started out playing soccer in the Storrington League when he was very young but by the team he was 6 or 7 he had taken up baseball in Battersea, and he has never looked back. Hje has been a pitcher since he started.
Now 20 and an apprentive carpenter working for Bencze Construction in Inverary, he still finds time to pitch fastball with teams in the Kingston League and with the Port Perry Bulls on weekends. He came to the attention of the New york Merchants of Oswego at a tournament when he was pitching for he Bulls and they have invited him to pitch for them at the North American Fastball Association tournament in Fargo, North Dakota starting on August 9th. He will barely have a chance to settle down when he gets back from that tournament before he leaves for Grand Rapids Michigan for the World Under 21 Fastball tournament with the Port Perry Bulls.

What both teams will be counting on is Kyle’s 73 mile per hour fastball. He is also a lefthander, which is another cahllenge for batters. He aversages 10 -13 stikeouts in a 7 inning game, meaning as few as 8 or 9 batters even put the ball in play against him.

He is a pretty good hitter and runner, but when he is pitching, which is about half the time his teams play, it is his ability to shut down the opposing offcence that is prized by his team mates.

“Fastball takes up a lot of my time in the summers,” he said, “but even in the winter I practice quite a bit indoors,” he said, and he added that pitching in the US will be a big event for him because fastball is popular in the US.
“It’s bigger there than it is here, that’s for sure” he said.

For Kyle Ainsly, fastball is destined to remain a major past time over the next few years, whether with his own teams or as an invited player on International teams.