Front Royal smacks down Waynesboro, 14-1
Front Royal battered Waynesboro pitching for 21 hits, and Corey Sessions limited the Generals to six hits in a complete-game effort in a 14-1 Cardinals laugher Sunday night at Linco Park at Kate Collins Field.
Sessions (3-0) struck out two with no walks in an efficient, effective performance for Front Royal, throwing just 81 pitches, 56 for strikes.
Front Royal broke the game open with a trio of big innings, getting three in the third, the big blow being a two-run homer by Bobby Lang, four in the fifth, all unearned off Waynesboro starter Brett Sasse (0-1) after a two-out error by first baseman Kevin Phillips opened the floodgates.
The Cardinals added five in the sixth off reliever Jordan Harmon.
Waynesboro got its lone run in the fourth when Jeremy Taylor led off with a single, stole second, advanced to third on a grounder by Michael Brosseau and scored on a sacrifice fly by Clayton Taylor.
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Too many errors… Starting pitchers are not well prepared, batters doesn’t have NO discipline on the plate. Third base coach is sending runners to steal, when team needs as much runners on base (gotta milk it when y’all are down a few runs). Bases loaded opportunities, NO run scored… not once, not twice! BASEBALL is all about adjustments (defensively and offensively). This TEAM is loaded with talents. It’s time to get real serious… from coaches all the way down to the last player! Replace your 3B coach as he doesn’t have no clue on what’s going on and y’all will start winning some games! Enough of all these excuses.. it’s ridiculous!
“Front Royal starter Corey Sessions only needed 81 pitches to finish out his complete-game effort Sunday night.
Put that in perspective: if Generals hitters had kept their bats on their shoulders the entire night, and Sessions got all 27 outs on three-pitch strikeouts, he does that in 81 pitches.
As it was, Sessions ended up with two strikeouts on the night, getting five outs on the first pitch of at bats, and 14 outs on two pitches or less.
That’s a lot of swinging at pitches early in counts, which if you’re going to do that, great, but when as a team you get a total of five balls to the outfield all night, maybe a patient approach is the better approach.
On the other side of the ledger, Front Royal had 21 base hits on the night. For emphasis: 21.
The Cardinals didn’t need three Generals errors to give them four unearned runs, but add those in for effect.
This all happened in the game following a move by coach D.J. King to sit several players for the start of a 6-5 loss at New Market Friday night because they were late arriving for the team’s scheduled departure time.
The kids might not like to hear this, but whatever.
It’s called baseball. Play it. It’s called adversity. Play through it.
They’re called expectations. Play up to them.
A lot of people put a lot of time and money into creating these opportunities for players to play summer baseball.”