There's No Place like Home

There is no doubt that Post 58 has a good hitting ball club this year. To say the least our group of all star hitters have feasted on the short fences of Northern Nash. Just looking at the old or new Yankee Stadium. I don't see any body wanting to remove Babe Ruth from the record books because of a short porch in right field.

When Post 58 puts a pitcher on the mound he is faced defending the short porch just as any pitcher is. Why do you think Post 13 had a rain out Monday at the small Fike High School field. Instead we played Tuesday in the spacious Fleming Stadium. With that in mind I would suspect Post 13 will play in the rain tonight just so the game can be played at Fleming if need be.

Post 58 remains alive in the third round of the East Area playoffs with a 32-5 thumping of Post 13. Demunitive center fielder T J Taylor hit three home runs including two in the third inning leading the way for Post 58. On the night Taylor was 4-5 three home runs and eight rbi's.

Trying not to let T J out do him Ben Fish was 4-4 with two homers and seven rbi's could of had eight but an error in the outfield took away a possible rbi.

Post 13 pitching yeilded 24 hits ,eleven base and balls and Post 13 defense created four errors and every error seemed to happen with the bases loaded to compound their problems.

Lost in all the hitting barrage was Alex Pearce's pitching. The three innings he pitched he gave up a solo home run walk only one and struck out two. Leading 25-1 after three inning Matt Bryan took Pearce out hoping to save him to pitch again this week and Nick Hahula pitched the next three innings not giving up any runs. Ray Valezquez pitched the seventh walked six batters and gave up a hit while allowing four runs.

Now let's talk about the third inning. Ahead 3-1 Taylor lead off with a solo home run to start the inning.Twenty five batters later a double play ended a twenty two run second inning which included 14 hits and seven walks and two errors. The first twenty five batters that came to the plate reached base. There was an out made on a force play but the batter reached base until the double play ended the 45 minute marathon.

Taylor and Fish had four hits but not to be out done Dillon Cockrell also had four. Tyler Clark and Cameron Ramsey had three hits. Mike Smith added a couple. Then Collins Cuthrell,Xavier Macklin, Grant Johnson and Nick Hahula all got hits.

Tonight game four is at Fleming Stadium and Post 13 has saved Justin Nygard to pitch in Fleming. There is a big question as to who will throw for Post 58 but I am guessing first game starter Dillon Cockrell will toe the hill for 58.

Regardless tonight is a hugh night for Post 58 to get game five back in Northern where in three games this years against 13 Post 58 has scored 53 runs.

I will be out of the loop until Saturday so go to the game tonight and hopefully again Friday. saturday will be my next blog.

Good Luck 58!