One of the big things was that we were able to take advantage of our opportunities. But, the real key was pitching. Hoffman and Waldron got the job done for us.
Hoffman pitched very well. He was in trouble in only the one inning they scored. He was pretty much in command in every inning other than that.
Our pitchers were okay. It's tough when both teams are using so many pitchers.
Matt did a good job in the second game before running into a little trouble in the seventh, which wasn't all his fault. Joey then finished it out.
We need six starters for the season and four for conference play.
We'd like to win these two games, but the conference games on Saturday and Sunday are more important for us.
We basically gave them the two runs, making a key error.
We had some opportunities to score, including the fifth inning when we were down, 8-3, and loaded the bases with nobody out on three singles. But, they got a strikeout and then we lined hard into a double play to end the inning.
We're swinging the bats extremely well. From one through nine in the order, the players are taking good hacks.
This weekend will dictate a lot of what happens to us this year in the conference. These are a couple of teams we will be battling with all season to make the tournament.
We could be better than 18-11 at this point, but we could be worse. We have been playing pretty well lately.
Dumas came up with another big hit for us.
Every year it comes down to the final weekend in conference play for us. That's why every conference weekend is important for us leading up to the end.
Things were looking good for us at this time.
Offensively and defensively, we're pretty set. We won't be making a lot of changes.
It was only fitting that Dave got the game-winning hit on the day he broke the all-time hits record.
Dave struggled some and went deep in the count to a number of their hitters.
Everyone, from one through nine in the order, seems to be contributing right now and that's what we want.
Their weather down there is supposed to be good on Thursday. We'll take a look at some of our other pitchers in the game.
The kids are just going to relax tomorrow. They're going to the beach tonight and we don't have anything big planned for tomorrow.