Salem had to move the Region 8-AAAAA game from its on-campus park to the American Legion field on the other side of town due to unplayable conditions from weekend rain. That was followed closely by unwatchable Salem pitching.
The Seminoles staff allowed two runs on a single wild pitch, and issued 13 walks. Despite the moans and whines, moan-whines and whiny-moaney-whinerings from the home dugout and bleachers, very few pitches that were called balls could've been confused as strikes.
If you saw one of these pitches jogging in a park wearing a neon green track suit, you'd immediately say "that's a ball jogging in a park wearing a green track suit".
Five of the walks came in the top of the seventh when Apalachee, down to its last two outs, tied the game at 3-3.
In the bottom of the seventh, Ndiayemon Harrison walked with two outs and Cary Campbell's fly ball bounced off the glove of right fielder Aaron Carley and out of play. That meant two bases from the field for Harrison, who was rounding second when the ball left the field of play. After some controversy, the Salem second baseman was awarded home and the Seminoles walked awkwardly off with a 4-3 win.
The gate in right field that helped Salem win Monday.
It's the second time in six days 300 Game Season has watched Salem walk off against a league opponent.
* One Apalachee fan was not shy about giving encouragement and she put on a Baseball Phrase Hall of Fame performance.
Here are most-used phrases:
"You don't have to kill it, all you have to do is meet it" - said 15 times
"Tough with two" - 12
"Use the whole field" - 9
"Base hit, ball four" - 7
"Anything close, battle" - 6
"Hard and level somewhere" - 4
"Make him leave swinging" - 3
"Come on blue, it's not about you" - 3
"Make him earn it" - 3
"Deep breath up there" - 2
"See it and drive it" - 2
"That's why you get three babe" - 2
"Let's roll it" - 2
"Knock it down, tag a bag" - 2
"Hit it hard and run for a while" - 1
"Square it, kid" - 1
"Go where it takes ya" - 1
"Find some grass" - 1
"You and the mitt you got this" - 1
"Be a wall back there" - 1
No comments:
Post a Comment