What a great day for baseball…Beautiful weather and great hitting! The 2010 Phantoms offense came out with fire against team Sparta’s.
The top of the order is in fine form and we were able to capitalize on runs early in the game. Chris lead off with nice single, Christian also hit a single and Jordan was able hit an inside the park home run.
The middle and bottom of the order is a work in progress at this point. Many of these kids moved up from super 9’s and haven’t been in kid pitch for a whole season. Alex R, Reilly, Sean, Jack and Caesar did get some good hits in the game.
This years team is a little light in the pitching department. We had 6 strong pitchers last year and we are going to need to mold our staff this year. The bright spot was that Christian started real strong with 1-2-3 strikeout to their lead off batter, but the ump didn’t call the close ones for him and he struggled to find his control after he walked a batter.
The other area we need to work on is defense. My starting fielders are going to be pretty strong, but as we rotate players through the field positions we have some holes. Team Sparta’s took advantage of our mistakes on the field and scored several runs on errors. This will get better with more practice and games.
The MVP for this game was Jordan for the HR in the 1st inning.
The Phantoms are an exciting team and will be a great squad. We have a fabulous cheering section and we have great assistant coaches working with the kids.
Our next game is Wednesday, 3/24 at 7:00 pm on Field 2 against team Windermere. See you then. Go Phantoms!
Final Score: Echelbarger 10 – Sparta’s 14
