Can Post 58 hit its way to a title?

All along this American Legion baseball season we have talked about this team being a hitting machine - a lineup of all-star hitters. Yesterday, Joe Bell sent out the stats on this team and the hitting numbers are unreal.

There are 13 players on this squad that batted at least 40 times during their 24 games to date. Not one of those players hit less than .300.

This team had a total of 330 hits in its 24 games. That mathematically works out to over 13 hits per game. Here is a figure that is out of this world. They had 271 RBI with 330 hits which is over 11 per game. That works out to .82 RBI per hit.

This team hit 47 home runs in 24 contests. That is a smidgen less than two per game.

The team batting average is .387. That is almost .400 for the entire team.

Ben Fish leads the way hitting nearly .500 at .489. Right on his heels is Collins Cuthrell at .486.

Xavier Macklin did not start playing until the last regular season game. He hit 10 homers to tie Ben Fish for the team lead. Macklin hit his 10 in 15 games.

Fish had 45 hits and lead the team with 45 RBI. If you look at Ben's high school career and now Legion ball, he may be the most clutch hitter I have ever seen. He is the all-time rbi king at Rocky Mount High. - man (Xavier Macklin) has 26 RBI in his 15 games.

Alex Pearce and Brandon Denton share the wins leadership having won five games each. Dillon Cockrell added four wins. Bill Clark, T.J. Taylor and Nick Hahula added two wins each.

This pitching staff improved every game. The entire season the defense gave up only 5.5 runs per game. If we had the ERA totals, I am sure that the staff ERA was around four per game.

Post 58 begins its quest for the second state title in Post 58 history Saturday afternoon at 4:30 against Mooresville.

ECU is not that far away. If you want to watch an entertaining team, then this could be it. None of us have any idea of how good the competition is. We may lose two straight and come home happy to have just made the tournament. Regardless, this team will be fun right to the end.

The midget 9-10 year old Little League All-Stars start their state tournament tonight in Erwin. They play at 6 p.m. Good luck to them.