What difference a week makes at West Raleigh ! I usually start off with , It was a hot sunny day on Nowell Field ! NOT this baseball day ! Chilly~ windy~ and Burrrr ! The Hot chocolate was made and all our Mudcats were warming up for a VICTORY !
It sure was fun to see the boys having some spirit pre-game ! They looked like they were having fun and isn't that what it is all about ? ( and a solid win helps )
1st inning~
Jay lead off the Cats ( The Mudcat Coaches shook up the line up some) and got on base. Connor stepped up with a , " to hot to handle" line drive to the outfield to move Jay around. We would end this up to bat scoreless.
On defense Sam had a great throw from left to 2nd~ they did not make the out BUT the throw was solid and the Cats were playing solid defense! Moose had some solid throws from the outfield as well to keep the Bulls 0-1 !
2nd Inning ~
Will started us off with several foul hits to right field then bombed a great hit to center field ! Action moved Will to 3rd ! The Cats were looking real good at the plate. Moose was up and Coach Jaime yelled, " SWING ALL THE WAY THROUGH" Moose ! A~N~D Moose delivered bringing Will home for our 1st run ! Let me just end this inning by saying ~~ DON'T LEAD OFF ON 2nd BASE !! If you were there you know exactly what I mean ~~ and that was that for our up to bat. Again~~ the Mudcats don't really need 3 out's every time they Bat to get it done ! We play better under pressure :-)
On defense ~~ OUT CAME the umbrellas, drizzling rain made for some messy chilly baseball however 1~2~3 OUTS and we were back to the plate !!
3rd Inning ~
Coach Jaime was on fire at the plate ~ he was throwing some heat as out Cats struck out a few times ( Just teasing with you Coach Jaime)! I think our Cats just were ready to be hitters and the chilly rain and wind was a curve ball for players and pitchers :-) Up came our Lil' Papi with a great hit ! I love it when he gets a hit~ that smile is priceless !
As I re-read my defense notes for this inning, there are a few rain droplets, runny ink so if my memory serves me correctly~ we had some throwing errors and sealed the inning 1-3 ! Time to make up some runs.
4th Inning ~
A solid hit by Braden and some Mudcat luck & he is on 1st !
Connor "Crush-Smiley" brought Braden to 3rd~
Channing had a pop-up BUT also an RBI bringing in our 2nd run~~
Cameron moved Connor to 3rd~
Will stepped up ( let it be noted-- no sleeves~ no batting gloves but ) TOUGH HOT hit to move in 2 Mucdats ! 4-3 ! No GLOVES~ NO SLEEVES~ " NO PROBLEM" :-)
***** GREAT INNING MUDCATS****
Defense for this inning was solid ! Pop fly caught from Jackson and a double play by Braden and Channing !! WOO HOO CATS !
5th Inning ~
Moose with a leadoff hit and speed getting on 1st~ Alex with a hit moving Moose to 2nd~ Great hitting Cats~ those Bulls played some tough defense this inning and kept us scoreless!
Defense~ A "COOL" snowcone catch by Braden at2nd started off an exciting defensive inning for our Cats. We had a few errors throwing that scored a run for the Bulls and tied up this ball game ! The Cats truly hunkered down and seemed to be determined to end this inning and finish off this game with a win.
6th Inning ~ A Mudcat yelled from the dug-out, " You gotta hit it Braden"- after a record amount of foul hits-and he surely did !
Connor and Channing had solid hits to move the Cats around and score one more run for The Cats 5-4 !
Will delivered with a RBI bringing in Connor and we ended our up to bat 6-4
*** If you remember this inning, again you win some calls and loose some calls** Mudcats are tough with the Umpire selection of outs and safe calls !
RAIN*wind* RAIN *wind* RAIN** just made our Mudcat defense tougher ! Cameron took care of the 1st out ~~ WILL with a AWESOME clutch catch for the 2nd out & Action getting the 3rd out and we put this one in the BOOKS-- !!
Burrrrrrrrrrr ~~ this one was cold but our Mudcats were H~O~T :-)
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