Back to the drawing board for Newbury College

[shotglass]

I don't really know where to start, except to refer you to the boxscore of today's NCAA Division III baseball game:

http://www.bridgew.edu/athletics/DIRECT/Stats/baseball2007_stats/bscbb14.htm

 

[BYH]

You only cover us when we lose by 56 runs!!!

 

[shotglass]

Well-played.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Dammit, I left Steve Smith on my fantasy bench!

 

[shotglass]

MM, that bottom sig almost made me tear up right here at the desk.

 

[Football_Bat]

But they tried really, really hard.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

MM, that bottom sig almost made me tear up right here at the desk.

Cuteness: the ultimate in passive-agressive weapons. Particularly when mixed with internet geek speak.

 

[shotglass]

At what point did Newbury pitchers No. 2 and 3 begin taking long, agonized glances at the bench between pitches?

 

[hockeybeat]

The 13-run first really set the tone for the rest of the game...

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Seriously, what on earth do you do? You don't want to wear the pitcher's arm out or have him be beaten into a Solomon Torres-esque mental case, but you can't burn everyone else out on a game they can't win, when you've still got other games left in the season (and the week, probably).

Scary thought: Bridgewater State went in at 7-6. It wasn't like they were playing Florida State.

 

[westcoastvol]

I sincerely hope Newbury's coach took all the players out to Pizza Hut afterwards...

 

[shotglass]

Scary thought: Bridgewater State went in at 7-6. It wasn't like they were playing Florida State.

Yeah, that hit me right away. Just how bad IS this other team?

Newbury lost its first two games in a Friday doubleheader to Maine-Presque Isle ... 5-1 and 5-3.

 

[BYH]

Would love to read the Newbury gamer.

Brian Fish was the star of the day for Newbury as he limited Bridgewater State to five runs in one inning of work.

 

[Write-brained]

Hate to see those ERAs ...

 

[D-3 Fan]

The two Newberry pitchers (#3 and #4) who gave up 20 and 22 runs respectively are the ones looking at each other like "who's next to get shelled?"

 

[hockeybeat]

Well, if I'm the Newbury coach, I emphasize the positive. "Boys, you scored a run. And you only committed five errors. Let's build off of that. Baby steps."

 

[write then drink]

imagine covering that game for the Newbury paper?

"Coach ... umm ... could you sense the game was slipping away a little when Jamison gave up those 22 runs?"

 

[Mystery_Meat]

The big words on the Newberry College website: "We Bring Out The Best In You!" Yeah, if you're wearing the other team's uniform. Then I realized that Newberry and Newbury aren't the same words. So I pressed on.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Homas Mathew should be batting third. That could make all the difference.

 

[ondeadline]

Two painful pitching lines:
IP H R ER BB SO
Jamison Torres ............ 2.0 16 22 19 5 3
Homas Mathew .............. 2.0 15 20 11 8 2

It's pretty bad when 14 players from one team EACH outscore the other team.