dperry
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05-22-22 07:37 PM - Post#341753
In response to dperry
Well, I have to give Boretti, Columbia's coach, credit, in that he gambled on Higgins, who had a good game 2, and having done that, he then had the better starter in Game 3, who induced a lot of fly balls that weren't quite hard enough to get out of the park and that the Columbia outfielders could run down. That said, while Penn definitely improved this season in terms of their patience at the plate, in Game 2 they squandered a whole lot of chances swinging early in the count, and also on questionable tactical choices (the play where Polo got picked off in the seventh being the perfect example.) Sometimes you got to stop thinking and let the team hit, and Yurkow still has to commit to sound offense. What makes this really frustrating is that we had the at least slight favorites in 2020, so you figure with the core of this team we would have had two cracks at it, but the league had to be stupid. Well, now I know how the Vikings fans felt after they had the Minneapolis Miracle and then got wasted by the Eagles the next week. Very frustrating end to the season.
David Perry
Penn '92
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