Critter

Congrats to Huffman solid team.

Bridge City ends a great season 26-6-1 and their 14th straight quarter final round.

Definitely worth the cost of a ticket to see this one tonite! Outstanding pitching duel! Game could've gone either way. Huffman found a way to scratch a couple of runs and BC didn't. Both pitchers with 8 K's and 2 hits, quality outings for both guys. On to game 3 tomorrow.

Rake1

KOGT are you kidding me technical difficulties in btm of 6th?

Why?... Kids are bigger and stronger. They train harder then years past. You can strengthen every muscle in the body but you cant strengthen ligaments. I have to agree with rake 100% and sometimes kids are just unlucky , bad mechanics , colder weather , not warming up properly. 

Whoa! Hold on just a minute before we put all the blame on Select ball or anything else. One thing nobody has addressed yet is the arm care issue, specifically before and after a kid pitches. This is a huge contributing factor to injuries. The lack of adequate warm up/stretching before most guys pitch along with how they care for their arms when they are done is terribly insufficient. Guys try to do too much too fast to get started and then not nearly enough when they finish or on their off days. You watch most guys, a little 3-5 minutes of stretching then they grab a baseball and start throwing rather than going through an adequate warm up period. Check out a professional pitcher and how long it takes them to get ready to pitch, it will blow your mind. It will also blow your mind to see what these pitchers do when they are done. The amount of running, stretching, icing, and so on is incredible. The off day work outs are often more intense than the actual game day throwing the pitcher goes through. It's basically the same concept as starting your car and going straight to 100 without allowing the car to warm up sufficiently, it causes damage. Now I agree pitch counts are needed and common sense should be applied as to what pitches a young player throws and at what age they begin throwing them, no dispute here. I just think more attention needs to be placed on how these young arms are cared for as well.

Out of curiosity I'd like to know if pitchers in Japan have the same arm issues as guys in the USA? You always hear the stories about guys like "Dice-K" throwing both ends of double header when they were in high school or averaging 125-150 pitches per outing. It would be interesting to know if they have the same sort of problems.

Rake1

Packed house in Nederland.....Two good pitchers, flawless defense for both teams under windy conditions......Not many HR's to CF @Nederland, Uzzle had one tonight....Huffman had two picked off at !B..Should be another great GM 2.

thats for you Critter. I know how it is to be at work with no updates. Uzzle K. 1 left on base

3 hits right?  :)

Watched kids for over 45 years, not many played the game with intensity and knowledge as Hunter.
 
 
http://www.orangeleader.com/hssports/x749170198/Cards-always-in-the-hunt-with-catcher-Uzzle

BC wins this series. Great coaching + talent + hard work = success

Silsbee wins this series.

Mr intelligence might want to take a look at that again. Silsbee hasn't played Crosby at all.

The total is right at 25, But Theodore Hoffman has 6 HRs not 5. You have him on 5 HR list and 1 HR list. Thank you for doing it all season.

Wednesday night in Nederland should be a great atmosphere with a big crowd! Hope the weather cooperates.

Rake1

Shuggart with a no hitter and 13 K's!
Also was 2-4 with 2 rbi's

I would say he did ok

Go Cards.... lets keep it rolling!

Astro manager Bo Porter said it was a great game plan that Silsbee came up with to beat Kolek tonight. He was very impressed.
 
Silsbee with 8 stolen bases tonight.

Was told 102 but I didn't see it myself

Tigers Win!
 
Brayden Griffin complete game win.   2 Hits, 0 Walks, 0 ER's  w/ 10 K's.
 
Colby LeBlanc 3 for 3, 3 Stolen bases and 3 Runs scored.
 
Great Game. 
 
All the best wished to Tyler Kolek and his future career.

Middle 6

3-0 Sils

Minor updates to Kelly players for next round of HR posts:
Proctor (Jr)
Harris (Sr)
Duplissey (Jr)

Great thread!

Critter, West Sabine has 3. Rickel Thomas(Sr.), Nick Williams(Sr.) and DeMarie Smith (Fr.)
thanks and keep up the good work.................

Critter, thanks for keeping this thread going for the past 3 or 4 years. The amount of views each year is a testament of it's popularity.

This game might be worth throwing....LOL... JK.. Kolek is a beast but they lack in run support.

Some video highlights.... missed the start of the first inning but listened live to KOGT and it sounds like the controversial stuff didn't start until the game was already 3-0 (as I was walking up)
 
http://vype.com/setx/2014/04/22/vype-video-stangs-strike-shugart-for-six-early-runs-beat-bridge-city-6-3/
 
As far as the rest of the night, this umpire was so bad, as an impartial fan covering for the media, if I see him behind the plate ever again, I will not be wasting 3 hours of my life on him... sorry to say that because the kids from both teams deserved the coverage last night... but this guy was a joke, and couldn't have been 22 years old...