Baseball Update - Etherton's versus Steinert High School

One of the things I love most about baseball is the sense if drama approaching mysticism that is routinely involved in the game. How else can you explain the Yankees losing four straight to Boston on the Red Sox way to winning the World Series after so many years of the Curse of the Bambino?

This week there was a version of that striking a little closer to home. Both Etherton's, Dan and Steve, pitched against the respective Steinert team, Varsity and Freshmen within a 4 day period.

To keep things brief, both outings had highlights and lowlights. Both were lit up pretty badly by the strongest program in the region but both suffered from the defense giving away too many errors causing the pitchers to have to get too many outs.

The scores were 12-3 for the varsity loss and 8-7 for the freshman loss. Both Etherton' pitched well for 4 innings but had 1 bad inning giving up 8 runs and 7 runs respectively.

In addition, both show promise as pitchers who throw strikes but pitch at about 70 percent velocity because of thier mechanis. Room for improvement or potential for becoming truly special, time and work will tell.

It was great to be present for both games although I agonize over each pitch and every missed play or ball hit hard. I'ld like to be able to coach them to meet thier potential but I recognize its in thier hands and thier trust in thier coaches and willingness to assess what could improve and work to make it happen.

In all, two good days, almost...

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