Written by Patrick Rayl | Contributing Author | 09.13.2013
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Pitch Slappers: Jacob Dunkle, Andy Hill, Patrick Rayl, Nick
Kappra, & Chris Foltz |
Patrick Rayl gives us his first article and it's a topic he's an expert on: his own team.
The Pitch Slappers: Fall ball started really rough for the
Pitch Slappers, but there are signs of improvement coming from the rookie team.
The team is made up of mostly high school baseball players and Andy. Opening
night was a wakeup call to this team on many fronts. With Patrick Rayl giving
up 12 runs on mostly HRs Pitch Slappers started 0-3. Chris Foltz and Jacob
Dunkle took over the pitching duties once Patrick promised to never pitch again.
Chris (4.44 ERA) and Jacob (4.5 ERA) have lead Pitch Slappers to a 3-2 record
with some promising performances from the mound. On offense it’s been the Jacob
and Nick show as both have carried a very hot bat. Jacob leads the league with
a 1.800 SLG% and Nick comes in 3
rd with a 1.462. Patrick is also one
of the very few players in fall ball that hasn’t struck out at the plate. Pitch
Slappers have a lot of work in the off season if it plans to contend next year.
Though fall ball was a great stepping stone for this team, it has shown that
each player struggles with consistency in each game. Once this team is able to bring its bats to
every game and step up defense it will be a tough team to play. Fall ball ends
first for the Pitch Slappers who look towards next Tuesday to play spoiler to
Team Bag Tag. If the Pitch slappers are able to push Bag Tag to the limit it
will show the length that the team has come.
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