End of Season, Beginning of Playoffs
So the Triple A Mets finished up with a couple wins which put us in second place by the end of the season. Emmett pitched the last inning of the last regular season game and finished with a flourish: strikeout, pop-up (that he fielded), strikeout.
Playoffs are double elimination, and we had our first playoff game yesterday. Reed finally pitched to his own standard and basically mowed down the opposition for three innings. It was both awesome and deadly boring since he struck just about everybody out. Jallah pitched for an inning and 2/3rds, and had the two big hits of the game - ringing doubles into the gap. Eian came on in relief of Jallah and shut-down a bases loaded situation, then drilled through 1-2-3 sixth inning and we beat the tough Devil Rays handily.
Emmett caught several innings (and was good back there, though nothing spectacular to report. Still, we scored about four runs on their catcher's misplays, so making no mistakes at catcher is huge). He made contact in all four at bats - but only got two hits. Still they were both RBI hits (he's hiting sixth now), and he also came around to score.
We're limited to how many innings Reed or Eian can pitch during the playoffs (not more than six innings in a week). I expect we'll burn through Reed and Eian for two more innings each in tomorrow's game and then hope that Emmett and Jallah and either Morgan or Nathan can carry us on Sunday's game. Should be enough. Emmett and Jallah are as good as most teams' #2 pitcher.
Playoffs are double elimination, and we had our first playoff game yesterday. Reed finally pitched to his own standard and basically mowed down the opposition for three innings. It was both awesome and deadly boring since he struck just about everybody out. Jallah pitched for an inning and 2/3rds, and had the two big hits of the game - ringing doubles into the gap. Eian came on in relief of Jallah and shut-down a bases loaded situation, then drilled through 1-2-3 sixth inning and we beat the tough Devil Rays handily.
Emmett caught several innings (and was good back there, though nothing spectacular to report. Still, we scored about four runs on their catcher's misplays, so making no mistakes at catcher is huge). He made contact in all four at bats - but only got two hits. Still they were both RBI hits (he's hiting sixth now), and he also came around to score.
We're limited to how many innings Reed or Eian can pitch during the playoffs (not more than six innings in a week). I expect we'll burn through Reed and Eian for two more innings each in tomorrow's game and then hope that Emmett and Jallah and either Morgan or Nathan can carry us on Sunday's game. Should be enough. Emmett and Jallah are as good as most teams' #2 pitcher.