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I had a funny feeling in my stomach after Monday's practice ... it was either the shrimp scampi I ate for dinner ... or the feeling of Oh Oh Oh Man, these bats are really jumping!  And luckily it was the latter ... and I did seriously walk away from practice thinking "if these kids hit in the game like they did tonight, LOOK OUT!!"

And look out they did ..... Tyler, Mitchell, Caden and Ben absolutely put their stamp on the ball and sent them packing for the hills ... knocking doubles and triples into the outfield.  Nick, Dylan, Caleb, Colin, Anthony and Aidan all smacked the ball and ran hard to first getting hits.  Cam and Ryan ran into some tough pitchers, but their bats will be back on track sooner than later!  Mitchell was our stud hitter tonight, and was our only player to bat 1.000 for the evening ... going 3-3, RBI and a monster double into Right Field.   Tyler's big hits, including this season's first TRIPLE, helped four Giants to cross the bag that means the most.

Pitching was another highlight of the evening.  Colin started the game and went up against 7 of the Pirates finest over 2 innings getting 3 Ks and allowing just a hit ... and only once did he reach a 3 ball count for the coach to come out, crazytown!  Aidan relieved him in the 3rd and did not allow a hit facing only 4 batters ... Closer Tyler worked the final two innings facing 7 batters and getting his own K and only allowing 1 hit.

With the pitching rolling along defense was minimal ... but the D stayed awake to make some great plays ... 2B Ryan made the routine play to 1B Aidan ... P Colin and Aidan made nice unassisted pop up grabs ... P Tyler made a great reaching catch for the out behind the mound .... SS Colin took a grounder and made the strong throw to 1B Caleb .... and finally 3B Akey made the nice play catching his own pop up down the line.  Stat line I really like to see .... 0 errors. 

In every game you hope for special moments .... and the beauty of them is you absolutely have no clue when they will take place, and even by whom.  Tonight we witnessed one.  With a runner on second and the Giants needing only one more run to seal the deal ... MR. CADE strolls to the batters box with his biggest opportunity of his life (okay, maybe a little dramatic, but I'm pretty sure it was for tonight!!) ... he takes a practice swing and steps up to the plate ... and wastes no time as he agrees with the first pitch and takes it DEEP to centerfield for the walk off game winning double. 

They say kids forget about games, strikeouts, big hits, wins, loses, etc, etc ... I'm going to guess our Game Ball Winner Caden will remember this one for quite some time .... I know we will !!!

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