Contrary to what you are thinking....I am not referring to the 'Untouchables' We played the Solingen Alligators on May 1st and they are the defending division champs. They also have the best pitcher in the league. He's a guy from the Dominican republic who just recently got his German Passport meaning he is now a German citizen. This game was just hard for us. We lost 5-4 in 10 innings.
Actually i shouldn't say hard, this game was just sad. We had at least four errors which probably cost us the game. It's hard for me to say why its so hard for people over here to do certain things, mainly make adjustments in the game, but I guess all I can say is maybe they are not taught that over here? Our coach tells us to have a plan at the plate, but sometimes, you have to throw the plan out and take what you can get....or sometimes, actually a lot of times, guys just have the wrong plans.
One guys plan is to hit a home run, the next guys plan is to pull the ball, another guys plan is to just hit it out of the infield. Those are not plans, those are goals. A good plan would be I want to get on base via a bunt, or maybe I want to move the runner on second over to third. Or a good plan would be to see how they are pitching you...fastball first pitch away, second pitch will be a fastball high to try and get you to chase then follow that up with a slider. Knowing he will do that, you can say, first pitch, I want go for a homerun. Second pitch I will take, and the third pitch I want to hit it to the opposite field. That is a plan. That is what the team doesn't do.
I finished off the game 2-4...the only guy with multiple hits in that game. As proud as I am of that, I feel worse at the way we lost. It was as if we just didn't want to win, like we were scared to win.
The second game was worse! It wasn't as sick as the first one, but the score was just bad. we lost 11-1. How did we lose this game? Well we just didn't do what we should have done. We didn't hit, we didn't field balls and our pitching was shaky. I was 1-4 with the only RBI. The sad thing is that I would have had the only two RBI's but the runner on third base didn't tag on my shot to left field in my second at bat. He could have scored had he done a handstand to home!
Cy had about 12 million ground balls during the day and he was perfect on each one of them. He looks so smooth playing at short. It almost looks as if he's doing it in slow motion because everything just seems to happen. He is with out a doubt the best defensive shortstop I've seen here in Germany. I'm not just saying that cause he's my boy too. He makes all the plays and makes it look so easy. His hitting right now is in a slump...by that I mean he's not getting the base hits that show in the stats, but he is hitting the ball. He puts it in play and hits it hard most of the time, just maybe right at someone, or a deep fly ball to center. His hits will come soon!
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