Well said PH!  I was at the game Poets game Thursday,  I would have had more fun pulling my finger nails out one by one!   We have 17 errors thru 5 games and that is home cooking more like 21 or 22!  Changes need to be made or this ship will never sail, I don't care how well you hit the ball.  But what do I Know I'm just a pitchers dad!

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Poets take 2 of 3 from P-P and it was all The Sagehens could do to avoid a sweep. WC looks to have found out a thing or two about themselves.  I'm looking forward to see if they can build on this.

Yes they did!  Let's keep it rolling tomorrow and then into the weekend!

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I knew Redlands' pitching would be tough on the Poets, but was looking for the steal in Game 2.

We need to hit better, that's for sure.  I think we can do that.
We need to field like college baseball players for 9 innings (or more) a game.  We'd better be able to do that.
I did like the pitching we got from our Game 1 and Game 2 starters.  We can build on that.

Keep grinding.

Purple Heys you been around awhile and I'm a new freshman dad and of a pitcher at that!haha  But can you please explain that game 3 lineup to me I don"t get it? 

Purple Heys...After what I saw today you better revise your prediction 3-36

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OK...I'll try it for the fun of it.

Pomona 3-0 over CMS - given the level of competition each has faced and the results - looks to be a good pick, especially early for CMS as the players and their new coach get acclimated with one another.

La Verne 3-0 over Cal Tech - the only interesting thing is that Cal Tech will likely throw their #1 at the #3 in every series to try to grab a win.  This early it may be a bit early to slot as the 1, 2, 3 patterns have not emerged the way things seem to settle in later.  I just don't see that it matters in this particular series.

Chapman 2-1 over Oxy.  A guess.

Whittier 3-0 over Redlands.  A positive outlook for a dad.   Be advised, the Poets will sweep every series and go undefeated the rest of the way. 

Wasn't able to make it out to the Redlands-Whittier game today.  Did you make out PH?  If so what did you think?  I will talk to my son tonight and get his take.

For 4 innings we went toe to toe, pitch for pitch.  I dare say, our guy was even a little bit better.. But they broke through for single runs in the 5th and 6th (each with 2 out).  By not getting to their guy in the early innings when we had the opportunities, it gave Redlands the time needed to solve our guy.  Then we had the 7Th inning where we failed to play college baseball.

If we are going to beat teams, we need to play college baseball every inning.

I was disappointed in our hitting- facing their top hurler had a hand in that...we'll see if we can bounce back today.

Revised prediction 35-4 

Talked to my son last night and he pretty much said the same thing you said.  A lot of frustration going on with the bats.  We hit .143 yesterday that's not going to win many games. 

Quote from: Purple Heys on February 17, 2016, 08:04:21 PM
OK...I'll try it for the fun of it.

Pomona 3-0 over CMS - given the level of competition each has faced and the results - looks to be a good pick, especially early for CMS as the players and their new coach get acclimated with one another.

La Verne 3-0 over Cal Tech - the only interesting thing is that Cal Tech will likely throw their #1 at the #3 in every series to try to grab a win.  This early it may be a bit early to slot as the 1, 2, 3 patterns have not emerged the way things seem to settle in later.  I just don't see that it matters in this particular series.

Chapman 2-1 over Oxy.  A guess.

Whittier 3-0 over Redlands.  A positive outlook for a dad.   Be advised, the Poets will sweep every series and go undefeated the rest of the way. 

Wasn't able to make it out to the Redlands-Whittier game today.  Did you make out PH?  If so what did you think?  I will talk to my son tonight and get his take.

I like it PH!  I will Take 36-3!haha 

SCIAC league play starts next week.  Predictions anyone?
 
Whittier-Redlands   Redlands 2-1
Oxy-Chapman         Oxy 2-1
Pomona-CMS          Pomona 3-0
LaVeren-Caltech      LaVern 3-0

Thanks for the info Purple Heys sounds like you know the team.  My question is why don't we schedule some scrimmage games before the season starts?  Then we can work all this stuff out before it counts and lose some of those jitters.  The world is full of great BP hitters and fielders at practice but when the real games start things speed up very quickly.  Some guys can handle some can't.  It would be nice to find out before it counted like on Sunday!   

Hello Purple Heys and purplebaseball.  I'm new to the board and a new freshmen parent at Whittier.  Made it to my first game of the season today and it was tough to watch us give that game away today!  I thought the pitchers threw well and the defense let them down today.  Routine plays that have to be made at this level were not and ended up costing us the game.  Seems like you two have been around Whittier baseball for a bit, is this the norm?  I know they had a tough season last year.