Jays round 2

Well, that wasn't the most stellar of performances. The thing that drives me the most cuckoo is 9 strikeouts looking. Aye carumba!





I realize we were facing the best pitcher in the league for the whole game except the first 1 2/3 inning. But it was frustrating to see our guys dropping the bat, or just staring at strikes. It is one thing to swing and miss, but to be baling out or just looking at strikes is rough. I was telling the guys, if they didn't think they could get around on the fastball, just wait for the curve ball. It was coming, just hang in there and poke that. That plan didn't work too well I guess. But of course, with no practice.....

We also did not meet my goal of a BB/HBP or less per inning. We gave up 9.



On the good side, we started the game nicely against Taylor Hill. Walk, hit, walk, walk, hit, hit. That got us a couple runs. Of course the base running limited us. CJ went on a hit and run that I gave, but just sank in the mud, and didn't have a good slide. The batter missed the sign too, and maybe the swing would have given CJ a split second more. Then Jerald got thrown out at the plate. Pretty much everybody on our side thought he was under/around the tag, but so be it.

Our defense was reasonable. We had a couple errors, which cost us. Also an error that gained us! The dropped liner just in front of 2nd base got us a double play. In my opinion, that wasn't an Infield Fly, because it was more of a looping liner. But that is why Infield Fly is in the rule book, to prevent the defense from getting cheap double plays. So since the ball ended up getting dropped, we got a cheap double play.

We did get a lot of putouts in the field. We only had 3 strikeouts on the night. Aren had a couple nice plays fielding, and then throwing to first. Ryan and Sam each did so from the mound as well.


Guess how many games we have now played. Let's ask Mrs. Bueller.