你在马秀上做什么？

好吧，如果您是卡森·阿金斯（Carson Akins），那就打球。但这仅仅是因为没有足够的空间挥舞蝙蝠。

Carson Akins has never been interested in horses, but his older sister is on the NIU equestrian team.

卡森·阿金斯（Carson Akins）从未对马感兴趣，但他的姐姐在NIU马术队中。

"Not me. I don’t know why. It just wasn’t me,” Akins said. “I was always a baseball player. We would go to horse shows, and I would just play catch with my dad all the time.”

“不是我。我不知道为什么。这不是我，”阿金斯说。 “我一直是棒球运动员。我们会去参加马匹，我只会一直和爸爸一起玩。”

“He wanted to play baseball nonstop,” his dad, Bill Akins, said. “Even at home on the farm. ‘Do you want to go ride the four-wheeler?’ No, it was, ‘Let’s pitch.’ He was always about baseball.

他的父亲比尔·阿金斯（Bill Akins）说：“他想不停地打棒球。” “即使在农场的家中。'你想骑四轮摩托车吗？'不，那是，“让我们推销。”他一直是棒球。

“All summer long, it was, ‘Go throw me pitches.’ And all winter, too. It was a lot of throwing pitches to the kid. Every spare time we had. Even at horse shows, we’d play catch and scare all the horses. We tried to stay out of the way, but some of them still got spooked.”

“整个夏天，都是，'去扔我的球。'所有的冬天，我们都会在赛场上投掷很多。

Akins fell in love with baseball at age 2.

阿金斯（Akins）在2岁时爱上了棒球。

“I picked up a bat and started swinging it and had a great time,” said Akins, a junior All-State center fielder for NUIC North champion Forreston (24-5).

“我拿起蝙蝠，开始摆动它，度过了愉快的时光，”阿金斯（Nuic Nuic Nuic）北冠军福雷斯顿（24-5）的初级全州守卫阿金斯（Akins）说。

His dad was a guard on Forreston’s first boys basketball team to reach state, making four steals in a supersectional upset of undefeated Sandwich. Bill Akins gently steered his son toward basketball, to no avail.

他的父亲是福雷斯顿（Forreston）第一个到达州的男孩篮球队的后卫，在不败的三明治的超级沮丧中进行了四次抢断。比尔·阿金斯（Bill Akins）轻轻地将儿子带向篮球，无济于事。

“I tried basketball, because that’s what he liked, and we would have fun doing it,” Carson said. “But I got him to play baseball way more than basketball. We would play basketball in the driveway and then go in the front yard and play baseball.”

卡森说：“我尝试了篮球，因为那是他喜欢的东西，我们会很开心。” “但是我让他比篮球更多。我们会在车道上打篮球，然后在前院去打棒球。”

Akins enjoyed pitching when he was younger. “But since 7th grade, it’s been all hitting from there on. That’s what I was a fan of.”

阿金斯（Akins）年轻时喜欢投球。 “但是自七年级以来，一切都从那里开始。这就是我的粉丝。”

He is a standout center fielder, but it’s his sweet, left-handed swing that makes him great.

他是一名杰出的中场守场员，但这是他甜美的左撇子秋千使他很棒。

“When the ball comes off his bat, you can tell he is a college-level hitter,” Forreston coach Mike McClellan said. “He is still working on covering the outside corner, but if you throw him something down the middle, you are going to be chasing it.

“当球从球拍上脱颖而出时，你可以说他是大学一级的击球手，”福雷斯顿教练迈克·麦克莱伦（Mike McClellan）说。 “他仍在努力掩盖外角，但是如果您将他扔到中间，您将在追逐它。

“He has such a smooth swing. And he is a student of the game. A lot of kids like to take extra hitting, but he will hit 100 balls off the batting tee. He does the type of work the guys at the next level do to create a good swing path.”

“他的挥杆动作如此顺利。他是游戏的学生。很多孩子喜欢额外打击，但他会从击球T恤上击中100球。他从事下一个级别的工作类型来创造一条良好的挥杆路。”

Akins hit .459 with 32 RBIs and a 1.246 OPS as a sophomore. His teammates consider him a .500 hitter, with shortstop Kendall Erdmann and right fielder Daniel Koehl both saying it’s a “coin flip” when Akins is at bat.

Akins以32个RBI和1.246 OPS的大二命中率达到了.459。他的队友认为他是一个.500击球手，游击手肯德尔·埃尔德曼（Kendall Erdmann）和右守场员丹尼尔·科尔（Daniel Koehl）都说当阿金斯（Akins）击球时，这是“硬币翻转”。

“It’s a sight to see when he’s up at the plate,” Koehl said.

“这是一个景象，可以看到他什么时候起床，”科尔说。

Akins is hitting .417 this year with a .583 on-base percentage, 45 runs scored, and 25 RBIs in 29 games.

阿金斯（Akins）今年以0.583的基准率达到.417，在29场比赛中得分为45次，得分45次和25个打点。

He has always been hitting. From the very start. He looked good at age 2.

他一直在打。从一开始。他在2岁时看起来不错。

“When he first picked up a bat, he started swinging left-handed. My wife said, ‘Isn’t he swinging on the wrong side?’ Nope. It was perfect. He’s a left-handed batter.”

“当他第一次拿起蝙蝠时，他开始左手摆动。我的妻子说，'他不是在错误的一面摇摆吗？'不，这是完美的。

And a baseball player now. Only baseball. His basketball days are done.

现在是棒球运动员。只有棒球。他的篮球日已经完成了。

“I played both sports until I hit high school,” Carson Akins said. “Dad said you can do what you want now. I took that and I ran.”

卡森·阿金斯（Carson Akins）说：“我参加了两项运动，直到上高中。” “爸爸说你现在可以做你想做的。我拿走了，我跑了。”

And threw. And hit. And tried not to spook the horses.

并扔了。并击中。并试图不吓到马。