Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Rays Playoff game 2

Guys, just wanted to get a quick email out to everyone - great game by our boys last night.  We played a very good Phillies team that gave us alot of trouble that last two times we played them.  We played very well as a team on offense and defense.  Key defensive plays were Jordan's running down of a ball down the line with a quick strong throw to the cutoff man to stop another run from scoring in the first(we especially liked this as we practiced this on Sunday and I challenged all our outfielders to be aggressive and try to throw someone out).  Also Jake Mathew made several solid plays on hard him balls at SS as he typically does every game.   Nick Cruciani also had a nice play on a hard hit ball down the line to get a force at third.  

Good offense also - Jake Mathew broke the game open with a triple(with two strikes on him and while under alot of pressure) with the bases loaded that put us ahead by 6 late in the game.  He went 3 for 3 at the plate with 4 rbis.  Jake Mckenna had three very tough at bats during the game and was 1 for 3 but had one at bat which went to a full count and he fouled over several balls and ate up 9 pitches.  Tyler had a big RBI single in the first inning also.

Quinn hit a walk off grand slam in the fifth inning to make sure that the Phils didn't get another chance to bat and he pitched a very good game against a strong hitting team limiting them to only 4 hits - as I said before the defense was key as there were several hard hit balls that were just outs and not hits.  Unfortunately this stopped Sam from having an opportunity to close out the game but he will be fresh for the next game.

Our team was pumped up and in the entire game from start to finish and it was good to see.

Coach McKenna

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