After reeling from the loss on Friday evening to the Cubs, the Padres were fired up to win one against the Giants. The team played 5 innings of solid baseball today. The offense continued the momentum from the Friday with 9 runs at the middle of the 3rd. The defense kept the Giants to 1 run until the 4th.
Christian is out of his hitting slump and hit the ball hard every time he was at bat. He had an RBI in the first, 2 RBI’s in the third and 2 RBI’s in the 5th. Brock had a monster hit in 3rd and the core of our line up was solid. Coach Kevin and myself agree that we need to work with a couple of the kids at the batting cage next weekend.
The score was 14 to 4 at the middle of the 6th and Padres struggled to close out the game. The Giants capitalized on defensive errors with 7 runs and once again the kids didn’t throw the ball to the pitcher. We could have easily lost the game with the unlimited run rule. We will be working at throwing the ball to the pitcher at the next practice.
Our next game is against the White Sox at 5:00 pm on Thursday at Lynndale field 2. See you there.
Final Score: Padres 14 – Giants 11
