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The Phantoms win another game! They have now won 4 in a row and are steamrolling the opposition with offense. This is a fun team to coach, no bad attitudes to deal with and players who want to play no matter what position they are placed in. I can’t ask for anything more.<\/p>\n
The team in green had 14 hits, 7 walks and 10 runs scored, while Olympic Paving officially had 5 hits, 7 walks and 6 runs scored. Chris had a nice triple, Ryan & Ian each had doubles and we had 11 singles from Chris, Ryan, Reilly, Benji, Caesar, Ian & Alex R.<\/p>\n
As of this game all of our eligible players have now pitched an inning. Alex B started us off in his pitching debut, he gunned down the 1st batter with 3 pitches. He would end up with 2 K’s for the game! Chris continues to be our ace with 2 K’s and 0 hits in 1.1 innings. Reilly had some trouble in the 3rd, but Ian helped him out of jam with a side ending strikeout in 5 pitches. <\/p>\n
Benji also had his season debut pitching the 4th, his fielders Ian and Christian helped him with 2 outs and he got a swinging strikeout to end the inning. Christian closed out the 5th with a 1-4 play with Ryan and 2 strikeouts to end the game.<\/p>\n
I’ve noticed that other minors coaches only put the same pitchers in every game. Although I have done that in a couple games this season, I don’t agree with it and my philosophy is to develop our pitching staff. The only way for the players to learn is to have all of them pitch in a match. PLL minors is a developmental division and our goal as coaches should be to get them ready for majors not focusing on wins.<\/p>\n
Fielding wise the Phantoms took better care of the ball, but we still had some errors that cost us runs. I do like the aggressiveness that our catchers are showing to throw the runners out at 3rd base. The team as a whole is improving in moving when the ball is pitched and not just standing around.<\/p>\n
Alex R was our MVP with a self double play by catching a pop fly and tagging 1st base when the runner didn’t tag up in the 3rd inning. Our 1st double play of the spring.<\/p>\n
I will be focusing on pitching, plays to 3rd base and introducing bunts at our next practice. My hope is to try it out soon. <\/p>\n
Our next game is Saturday 4\/10 against Showcase Sports at 3:00 pm on Lynndale Field 2. Should be a good match. See you there. Go Phantoms!<\/p>\n
Final Score: Echelbarger 10 – Olympic Paving 6<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Phantoms win another game! They have now won 4 in a row and are steamrolling the opposition with offense. This is a fun team to coach, no bad attitudes to deal with and players who want to play no matter what position they are placed in. I can’t ask for anything more. The team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}