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Sometimes the ump makes the wrong call and that’s baseball…\u00a0 In a controversial call on the last play of the game, the Phantoms lose, but technically won the game. We have to remember that the minors level is a developmental division, we don’t keep track of wins or loses and standings.<\/p>\n
Yogi Berra once said that “Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical…” I’m not sure if the Phantoms are too confident or if they are just getting bored. In the last couple of games, the team in green hasn’t been ready mentally to play baseball. The kids are quiet on the bench, not cheering for each other and not playing like a good team.<\/p>\n
The Phantoms had a season low of 6 hits and 14 strike outs for the game. Sean contributed with a double in the sixth inning. Chris, Sean, Ceasar and Ian had singles. As a team we were held to 5 base on balls.<\/p>\n
Alex R was our starting pitcher going 1 inning facing 5 batters with 1 strike out, 0 hits, 2 walks and 2 runs given up on a throwing error. Chris pitched the second facing 7 batters with 0 strike outs, 5 hits, 0 walks and 1 run given up. Ryan pitched the third inning facing 5 batters, 1 strike out, 2 walks and 0 runs. Ian pitched the fourth facing 6 batters, 1 hit, 3 walks and 2 runs given up. Jordan pitched the fifth facing 3 batters, 2 strike outs, 0 hits, 0 walks and 0 runs. Christian started the sixth struggling to find his control walking 3 batters, 1 strike out and 3 earned runs. Sean closed us out with 1 strike out and 1 walk.<\/p>\n
We had a couple good plays in the game. Sean caught nice pop up at 3rd base. Chris had a 6-3 combo with Ryan in the first inning. Alex B started a 9-4-1-6 with Christian, Chris and Sean. Chris had 1-2 with Jordan and a caught a line drive a pitcher in the second. Ryan had a pop-up at pitcher and Sean caught a pop-up at short in the third. Ian had a 1-4 with Ryan, a pair of 1-3’s with Jordan in the fourth.<\/p>\n
Jordan was our MVP for the game. He had the 1-2, two 1-3’s and 1-3 with Ryan at 1st base in the fifth inning and 2 strike outs facing 3 batters. Jordan had a double in the 3rd and was hit by a pitch in the fifth.<\/p>\n
In the last play of the game, Sean with the count of 2 and 2 pitched to the lead off batter Michael #2 on Windermere. Michael hit a grounder to 1st and Ryan caught the ball and immediately ran toward 1st base. Ryan beat the runner by 2 strides and collided with Michael at first. Sean who was helping to cover 1st was base was blocking the view of the fielding ump and the runner was called safe. The go ahead run at 3rd came home and we lost the game. I would have contested the call with the home plate ump had it been a playoff game, but in the end it didn’t matter and there is another game to play on Monday.<\/p>\n
Final Score: Echelbarger 7 – Windermere 5 (8)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sometimes the ump makes the wrong call and that’s baseball…\u00a0 In a controversial call on the last play of the game, the Phantoms lose, but technically won the game. We have to remember that the minors level is a developmental division, we don’t keep track of wins or loses and standings. Yogi Berra once said […]<\/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-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseball.abella1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}