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I was at the Hopewell at Monacan game yesterday afternoon.  Monacan jumped all over them in the first, Josh Barber (or Barbour?) dominated, and it ended up something like 15-0 when the rule got invoked.  But the first inning involved "one for the books."

Leadoff man hit a shallow pop up that was misplayed a double, and Barber followed by doubling off the wall in CF.  Third batter, Aaron Robinson, hit the first pitch he saw this season, a belt-high fastball, roughly 390' to LCF for a HR -- into an upper level wind.

The inning snowballed on Hopewell from there, and Robinson got up again in the inning, this time facing a reliever.  Having seen what Robinson could do with a fastball, the reliever started him with a curve down and in.  Robinson dropped the bat head on it and lined it out, just over the 340' sign near the pole, for a grand slam.

2 HR, 6 RBI, all in the first inning -- and on the first two pitches this batter had seen on the 2016 season!

It's all downhill from there, I suppose.

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Wow I don't know how bad the wind was there, but in the valley it was a steady 30-40 mph all night. ( blowing in at our game) You would have had to have been Godzilla to hit one out. Good for him but tough to follow up a performance like that...

Four no hitters last night. We had one (Millbrook) ,I think you saw one, and two more according to PBR.

Thats 5 I count in two days... Also crazy.

"Four no hitters last night. We had one (Millbrook) ,I think you saw one"

Barber (sp?) retired the first 11 hitters, then had a routine grounder to third reach on an errant throw in the 4th to break up his potential perfect game.  I left after that, but today's paper indicates he gave up a hit at some point, which I assume happened in the 5th.  (They can't be counting that E as a hit, because their line score shows both 1 Hopewell hit and 1 Monacan E.)

I would guess he (a lefty) was mid-80's with a very effective curve.  Hopewell gave away 2 outs in the first, chasing fastballs up out of the zone for K's, and by the time they came to bat in the top of the 2nd, the rout was on.

 

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