Post 58 Is Rolling

Thunder off in the distance Post 58 traveled to Northeastern High School Sunday night to play a double header baseball  games in which Post 58 could lose both and still have first place to themselves when the night was over.  Whether the excessive heat from Friday's game against Post 13 and some of the heat was not weather related it was decided before Rocky Mount ever left to go to the game that Sunday night's game would only be five inning affairs.

Game one of the DH saw Chase Johnson take the hill for Post 58 and after three innings Albemarle lead 2-1.  If there is one thing that Post 58 has done this summer is hit the ball and the second time around the order P58 did just that scoring nine runs in the fourth and win game one by a score of 10-2.

So far this summer P58 has just about dominated every game they have been in in the middle and late innings.  Why would that be and the best way to answer that is I don't see too many teams that P58 has played in conference play have all that much depth on the mound.  Every team has at least one guy who can go five innings but those last four innings who do you put out there against a team that hits average pitching like batting practice.

Looking at the future I would think there will be several teams as the playoffs progress that will be able to hold P58 to five runs.  Then the pressure will be on the P58 pitchers to keep them in the game.  There have been moments where the pitching has been great and then moments that we are glad the offense can score ten runs  or more a game.  I don't think our conference has done P58 any favors this year getting Rocky Mount ready for the playoffs that begin July 12 at home that night.

Now for  game two.  If the thought is true that most teams in our league don't have quality pitching that can get past five innings then we need to look at game two being the 6th,7th, 8th 9th and 10th inning of one game.  The result Post 58 15-0.

Overall now P58 is 17-5 and 12-1 in league play and they get a chance Monday night at home to meet the only team to beat them in conference play in Windsor.  Tuesday they again play home hosting P39 Pitt County who makes the return trip to Rocky Mount after the opening night rain out in the 3rd inning way back in May.  The last regular season game is Thursday against Wayne County and then there is a week off to rest.