What a difference a few days can make. Four days prior to the White Sox game we were riding a three game wining streak with hopes of making it four. It feels so long ago. After coming up "short" against the biggest "little" league team I've ever seen, we are now on a three game slide. A strength of ours the whole season has been the ability to hold our oponents to single digits in the run column. Leading up to this game we had allowed double digits only one time. The Pirates put up 11 against us. The only team better than us with this stat is the White Sox. Before we scored 14 on them no team had scored more than 7. (Most teams are in the 6-9 game range.) This was part of the reason I was so shocked to see us fall behind by such a large margin. We are an average team with the bats but a much better team on defence than most. We win games with our gloves and steady pitching. If we struggle with either we end up in trouble. My stated goal this whole season has been to be playoff ready. Sure we wanted to win all our games but we knew we had alot a growing to do during the season. And we have. The kids are also building confidence in themselves and their teammates. They are learning to never give up. Down 18-3 the kids kept plugging away. And with momentum on their side they just may have come all the way back and got win. But we will never know. The umpire took that chance away from them. ( I know we could have done more earlier in the game and the umpires are not the people who cost us the game, but) Rules are rules and we finished the inning with time remaining on the clock that should have allowed us to play one more inning. The umpire that ruled we were out of time and could not continue playing later admitted we should have been allowed to play another inning but he didn't feel like going back out on the field!!!! Chalk this game up as another learning experience. Our seeding for the playoffs is pretty much set. We will be the 2 or 3 seed in the bottom bracket. I am going to use our next two of our next three games to build on our depth at certain positions so we don't get caught short handed as we try to have a long playoff run.

Stats from the game; 11 players scored a run. 10 had at least one RBI, For the first time this year every kid reached base safely.

Next up; A 7:45 game against the Orioles on Monday at Ball Park #2. Good luck the rest of the way kids!