2012, Game 11: Ironpigs @ Roseville Nationals – A tale of two hits.
After losing our first game of the season, we needed to get back into a hitting frame of mind. We’ve been doing a lot of swinging and missing at the… Read more »
After losing our first game of the season, we needed to get back into a hitting frame of mind. We’ve been doing a lot of swinging and missing at the… Read more »
Winning streaks are harder than they seem. We’re 9 games into the season, and while we’ve had a couple of close calls, we haven’t lost a game yet. At some… Read more »
We’re riding a winning streak, and feeling good about it. But that doesn’t mean we can take it easy – on any given day, any team can beat you. They… Read more »
I often say that an evening spent playing (or coaching, in my case) baseball is better than an evening of pretty much anything else. We got to test that tonight…. Read more »
We’ve hit that part of a winning streak where it starts to seem inevitable that we’ll win, and the temptation to take it easy sets in. This can be a… Read more »
There is a saying in baseball that pitching and defense wins games. We came into Game 6 knowing we were down two guys – both Marco, our #3 hitter, and… Read more »
For the second time in as many games, Joey, our #12 hitter, came to bat with the game on the line, and for the second time he delivered a solid… Read more »
Our 4th game of the year was our first home game. We returned to Afton #1, our practice and home field, with a 3-0 record. Thus far, we’ve faced teams… Read more »
This should have been Game 4, but we postponed our 5/31 game against the Roseville Orioles because it was the same night as the 7th grade band concert. Since 3… Read more »
That the Knights are an Oakdale team is kind of odd, because Oakdale teams are usually major league teams – the other Oakdale teams in our league this year are… Read more »