Scrimmage Report for Fri, 1/26/24 Orange is home team. On the field for ORANGE: P - #3 So Cade Fisher C - #28 So Luke Heyman 1B - #14 Jr Jac Caglianone 2B - #5 Fr Sammy Mummau 3B - #1 Sr Dale Thomas SS - #44 Sr Armando Albert LF - #24 Fr Blake Brookins CF - #50 Sr Jaylen Guy RF - #2 Jr Ty Evans BLUE Batting: Top of the 6th. 0-0 Kc/B/Kc/B/Ks - #11 Rs So Michael Robertson goes down swinging B/B/F/Kc - #4 So Cade Kurland singles over Short B/B/ #4 picked off 1B/Ft/B - #10 So Colby Shelton grounds out to 2B. Play gets applause from the crowd. Top of the 7th. 0-0 F/B/Kc/F - #6 Sr Tyler Shelnut reaches on E4 #29 So Brody Donay hits into 6-5-3 DP Kc - #16 Fr Hayden Yost flies out to left Top of the 8th. 0-0 New Orange pitcher is #41 Rs Jr Blake Purnell B/Kc - #26 Sr Tanner Garrison F/Kc/B - #5 Fr Sammy Mummau/Palm Harbor flies out to right Kc/B/B = #30 So Ashton Wilson grounds out to 3B B - #23 Fr John Martinez singles up the middle B - #11 Rs So Michael Robertson grounds out to short Top of the 9th. Orange 1-0 Ks/F/Ks - #4 So Cade Kurland goes down swinging Kc/B - #10 So Colby Shelton grounds out to 1B. P covers #6 Sr Tyler Shelnut hits ground-rule double to right F/F/F/F/B - #29 So Brody Donay singles thru left gap. Runner in. #16 Fr Hayden Yost doubles to right. #29 out at the plate. --------------------------------------------------------------- On the field for BLUE P - #12 Fr RHP Liam Peterson C - #29 So Brody Donay 1B - #30 So Ashton Wilson 2B - #4 So Cade Kurland 3B - #23 Fr John Martinez SS - #10 So Colby Shelton LF - #6 Sr Tyler Shelnut CF - #11 Rs SO Robertson RF - #16 Fr Hayden Yost Orange Batting: Bottom of the 6th. 0-0 #50 Sr Jaylen Guy grounds out to short Kc - #1 Sr Dale Thomas grounds out to P B/Kc/Kc/B - #14 Jr Jac Caglianone doubles to right/center fence B/Ft/Ks/B/B - #28 So Luke Heyman grounds out to P Bottom of the 7th. 0-0 #2 Jr Ty Evans grounds out to short Kc/Kc/Ks - #44 Sr Armando Albert goes down swinging B/Kc/Ks/F/F/F = #24 Fr Blake Brookins grounds out to 2B Bottom of the 8th. 0-0. New Blue pitcher #33 Fr LHP Robert Satin B/B/Kc - #5 Fr Sammy Mummau singles to shallow right #50 Sr Jaylen Guy grounds out to P. Runner to 2B. Ks/B/B/F/Bt/B/F - #1 Dale Thomas grounds out to 3B. Runner to 3B. #14 Jr Jac Caglianone singles to short (ball was deep and throw late). Runner comes in. Kc/F/B - #28 So Luke Heyman pops out to 1B Bottom of the 9th. 1-1 B/B/F/Ks/F - #2 Jr Ty Evans pops out to 1B Kc/F - #44 Sr Armando Albert singles to shallow right/center #24 Fr Blake Brookins flies out to center F/B runner steals 2B (throw was wide)/Kc/B/Ks - #5 Fr Sammy Mummau goes down swinging FINAL 1-1
I won't be back at practices until next Friday at the earliest. This is my time of year to get company and go visiting before the season starts. Everyone knows to not bother me from the middle of February to the end of June! I told everyone I'd pin this thread and everyone can add their own reports/insights. All info is welcome!
Not hardly. It was more like.... Mummau hits a wounded duck to right. Three Gators converge but it lands exactly where no one can get it. Second basemen picks ball up, wipes off the blood, and throws the ball in.... But that's hard to say during the action.
FYI I don't recall any hit batters. Seems like I recall one wild pitch that ricocheted off the bricks but no one was on. No triples but very few hits either way other than Cags hard hit double to RCF. I guess the ball Evans could not get to near the corner would also be a double, even though they threw out the runner that was on first who rounded the bases and was thrown out at home. Someone with speed, like the way Langford played LF last year would have made it look easy. Too bad no one can give us an update on the Saturday or Sunday practice.
Here's an update for everyone who used to complain about no shade at the Mac: Row 3 already was in the shade when I arrived and FROST immediately began to form on my body. After half a freezing inning, I moved around to beyond the 3B dugout to a seat in the beautiful sunshine and was reasonably comfortable. Also, Dale Thomas had a triple to the wall, perfectly placed between CF and RF, could only admire it. Poor Slater got bombed and gave up 5 runs in an inning.
Lol....always said I had more times freezing at the Mac than being hot Heard Thomas had 2 off the wall. Evans got dinged. Shelton had a bad day offense and defense. McNeilie solid start, Slater hammered as you said Young guys like Mummau, Brookins, Yost and Martinez have played well I still worry about Shelton at short, Thomas is easing my concerns about 3rd.
I might get details wrong but I remember a game at the Mac that went at least to the bottom of the ninth and maybe also to extras that was so cold that I didn't care who won the game as long as it was over. It must have been in the 30's. With wooden bats there would be killer bees in your hands for anything hit off the handle. Buddy Reed either hit the game winner or scored the game winner. I just wanted to go home and get warm and the Gators winning was a plus. Now for being too hot the Mac used to give away ice and had misting stations for people to cool off especially on Sunday games late in the season. They don't do that at the new stadium.
That must be it. Not sure how I got home because the rest of my cohort left innings before. Probably walking on clouds.
This was an early season game on a Saturday in 1985 for me and my kid. It was in the 40s that afternoon, but we were well-bundled, including a blanket. The pic made the front page of the Sun the next day and my wife used it for years as proof that I didn't have enough sense to keep the kid out of the freezing cold. He still takes my side that baseball fan training should begin as early as possible. We were sitting near the top of the old wooden bleachers on the LF line, that had been football east stands and later south stands The nice concrete Mac still was three years away. Not many years later, he was a star at chasing down foul balls- the other kids hated him for getting too many.