Saturday's scrimmaged turned out pretty good. The team we were facing has a strong baseball program so I had little expectations going in, mainly wanted to see improvement from our team and not so much worried about the score.
We scored in the first inning and stranded 2 runners...that in and of itself is a tremendous improvement. I think it took us a few games to get a run last year and this year we not only scored...and I know this sounds odd to look at as a positive...we stranded 2 runners.
We hung with them for a few innings in-spite of my starting pitcher struggling to find the strike zone. I wanted to get a look at everyone so I made the commitment to myself that I wasn't letting any one throw more than 50 pitches. In the 3rd we struggled on the mound. Probably gave up 10 runs through 4 pitchers. We ended up getting out of the inning with a triple play. It wasn't pretty but it was a triple play.
We weren't keeping score but you know the fans in the stands were, I think the final was 16-2, and that was with me allowing everyone to play and bat. I probably have 4-5 kids that I've kept on the team just to build the program and have numbers and create, generate so excitement.
We scored 2 runs, stranded 5, 3 stolen bases and 6 strike outs. I feel pretty confident those numbers are competitive to the entire season last year.
We scrimmage the same team this Thursday as well as another cross county rival. I looking forward to it! I was able to get a friend from church who pitched for Mississippi State to come out yesterday and work through some mechanics and pick-off moves yesterday.
I just want to say thank you to this group for your help and your encouragement.