Baseball (for seven inning games) is a race to 21 outs. The team that plays a better game of catch typically wins. The winner will normally score more runs in one inning, than the difference in the score.
All these adages almost proved true for the MBC team last night. The difference in the game was the Tiger's ability to "get off the field" and MBC's inability to "get off the field"
MBC got superb pitching performance from Cole Burcham and Danny Hunt but could not get those battling pitchers off the field in time to win the game. MBC lost 12-4, and allowed only 3 earned runs. Ouch!
MBC loaded the bases in the first against a struggling Tiger starter, and could not put him away. MBC did get on the board in the second to take a lead, but fell victim to staying on the field too long in the third inning.
Five plays. Five plays in the third could have been outs. Five plays that we normally make. Five plays in the third inning could have avoided disaster. Five plays were simply not made and a hole was dug. Five plays that we WILL be making down the road. It is early, and this night simply provided us with another lesson.
The fourth inning gave us three plays that would have gotten us off the field, and in the fifth we whittled it down to just one play. Instant progress, but still room for improvement.
Instinctively knowing that getting off the field was an important part of baseball, MBC tried their luck in beating the system, by simply running off the field after two outs. Our infield turned a nifty 6-4-3 double play and ran off the field. The other team took the field, and if it wasn't for that pesky umpire keeping track of outs, we might have gotten away with this great new idea.
Offensively Joe Eskanazi kept pace with his hot hitting with a single, and Cole Burcham collected two hits.
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