Bulldog / Hose and Fitting Supply opened up the season (and the team's existence) in style with a road trip to Sartell MN to play in an early bird tournament at Upper Deck Sports Bar & Grill. The main objective was to prepare for next week's qualifier at Lac Lavon and stay healthy. Overall, we ended up breaking even at 2-2 but ended up identifying areas of improvement that should hope us towards our season based goals.
Highlights:
- Season ending scare ... Hard hit ball back to the pictcher was stopped by safety mask. Good investment!
- Home Run Derby Champion - Congrats Brian!!!
- Getting 10 runned in our first game...opening jitters?.. but then getting our revenge 2 games later.
- Acker's rundown ... But then again is that really a surpise to anyone :)
- OFFENSE
- In both games that we lost, we didn't use our home run total.
- Base running needs to be better executed. We had one run down and a couple of opportunties to get some extra runs with two outs.
- DEFENSE
- Always solid, but need to do better at holding runners to 1 base. A couple instances of the ball being thrown around and taking away our opportunity to have a force at 1st or 2nd.
- Need to determine when 5 infielders is effective / ineffective. When we have a lead, should be play in a straight up defense?
- STRATEGY
- Need to be flexible in order to beat opponents that are at the same caliber as ourselves. I believe it is the adjustments we make throughout the game that will make the difference.
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