My last posted ended in a dramatic win by the Allen Baseball Club over the eventual winners of the NABF National Championship. Further coverage seemed a bit unnecessary for either of 2 reasons:
1. We went on to lose the next 2 games and were unceremoniously kicked to the curb and sent home.
2. Matthew was taken out of the second game in the top of a disastrous first inning where we gave up 6 consecutive hits in conjunction with at least 4 walks and numerous errors for overthrowing his cut off man from left field, who, incidentally was looking the other way.
He attempted to make the throw to home in order to try and stop a runner who was going to score from second bad and stop the bleeding. The ball wasn't back to the pitcher before he was pulled from the game and, unfortunately, he couldn't be put back in.
It seemed a bit personal at the time; although, I realize that someone had to be made an example of in order to attempt to right the ship.
In my opinion, there were quite a few more costly errors that could have been exploited in order to make the point. Taking one of your most productive hitters out of the line up seemed a bit counter productive to me, but what do I know?
What I do know is that after traveling back to Texas, they closed out the Summer season with 2 games on August 11th where Matthew went 4 for 4 with 3 singles and a double.
Pretty impressive by most people's standards.
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