‘All My Worth Is Through God’- Nathan Dettmer

July 19, 2022197 views0

‘All My Worth Is Through God’- Nathan Dettmer

2022-07-19T12:40:18+01:00

By Church News

Despite pitching for the fifth-ranked college baseball team, Texas A&M University’s Nathan Dettmer doesn’t let baseball define him through either the wins or the losses.The 20-year-old shared his faith with the press after leading the Aggies over Notre Dame 5-1 in a College World Series elimination game. Dettmer pitched seven innings without allowing a run and allowed only three hits.During a post-game press conference, Dettmer told reporters he had struggled since the team was beaten by the University of Oklahoma in a game where he gave up seven runs and was pulled in the second inning. He said that the mental battle was won with a bit of help from teammate and fellow pitcher Micah Dallas.“He texted me that from one game, it doesn’t define me. It doesn’t define me as a person. And baseball doesn’t define me as a person,” Dettmer told reporters.“All my worth is through God. I just prayed to Him that night. And He just told me that that’s not my story. He’s got a plan for me and that one game wasn’t it. I just have to trust in His plan,” he continued.Dettmer also shared a photo on his Instagram page of him pointing skyward with a caption quoting Proverbs 3:5: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your understanding.”With six strikeouts and zero walks, Dettmer notched his longest outing on the mound since April, when he was named SEC conference pitcher of the week.Nathan Dettmer said, “I knew He had a plan for me and had success today, and it was an awesome great feeling.”Notre Dame’s Brooks Coetzee told The Associated Press that Dettmer’s pitches had depth, “He had the sinker going, he had the fastball’s run going, had the changeup going. Nothing was going straight, and he was pitching everybody differently. He didn’t fall into tendencies.”ALSO READ Nigerian Christian Widows Empowered With Management Skills In Benue State