The Phantoms are able to keep up with the best teams in the league. Even when they have bad defensive games, they are within a few points to win.
My lineup strategy has been to put Chris and Christian as the leadoff batters. Both are good hitters, fast base runners and have really small strike zones. The advantage is that it makes the opposing have to pitch perfectly in order to get them out. This has been working really well and even the best pitchers are having a tough time pitching to them. They get on base and then our power hitters are right behind to drive them in.
Christian was walked 3 times in this game and finally got a hit late in the game. He’s had better games defensively, but he wasn’t the only one to miss grounders and pop ups.
The Phantoms had a couple bad calls by umps go against them. It cost us a couple runs and we could have tied up the game or gone ahead. Team Bennett & Bennett was undefeated until they played 3D Roofing, the only team now to be undefeated. We feel pretty good that we gave them a good close game even when we didn’t play well.
This was the first of 2 back to back games for this weekend. We have Little League Day and a game against NWK8 on Saturday.
Final Score: Coldwell 11 – Bennett & Bennett 12
