Everything kind of clicked today, luckily. I can call all the plays I want to, but it takes them to execute. |
He's banged up. We're taking a much more conservative approach with him this season. He's two weeks into his therapy sessions. Hopefully, he'll be ready to throw two or three innings against East Aurora (Saturday). |
If that's an omen for the season, it's going to be long one. |
It's nice to put up runs early, but to not let them answer is huge. |
Kenny Laag was super on that mound, but Andy Reid was the man. He got ahead of a lot of hitters. He took charge out there. It was a big start for a senior, and he really stepped up and shined. |
Offensively, we didn't attack. That's a far cry from the team we saw in the summer. That's probably the most frustrating and disappointing thing, we know we can play better and we're just not doing it. |
Our approach at the plate still wasn't very good. That's something we've really got to work on. It'll come around. |
That game could have been 2-1 going into the seventh. We did not do a good job handling the baseball. We did not field it well. |
That's a giant bright spot. Those three guys have thrown a number of varsity innings. It should help calm down the rest of the team, offensively and defensively. |
The second inning was better than his first. He had some nice pop, but when you can't get your second and third pitch over (the plate), teams are just going to sit dead red on the fastball and drive it. |
The second time through they had a much better approach and were aggressive at the plate and drilled the ball. We just took too many strikes today. That's not the approach that we want or need to take. |
Their pitcher did a great job. He kept the ball down, moved it in and out and generally kept us off-balance. And we didn't do a very good job attacking the ball today at all. |
Tyler pitched a great game. And we definitely needed it. |
Vince is a natural athlete. I think he opened up a lot of eyes last summer. |
We just got beat by a better team today. We couldn't overcome a lot of two-run spurts. |