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I love Ackley but other 2Bs get to that ball, and Seager DID get to the 3B hit, just didn't get his glove down on it. Of course, gold-glover Brendan Ryan has cost us a bazillion runs this year with a couple of boneheaded mistakes in the field, so it's not just the underwhelming defenders letting us down in crucial times.
We are 7-7. The sky is not falling. But our mistakes as a young club tend to be critical ones, made at the worst possible times, and that haven't been overcome either at the plate or on the mound.
Is it positive that we could realistically have 3 more wins? Sure.
Does that help us in the standings right now? Nope.
We need the kids to have a few easy games. Even when they put it together at the plate, the pitching tries to give it up, which keeps the pressure on the lineup to produce more, more, more...
And in tight games when the offense can't score, they hang the pitchers out to dry...and the pitchers have hung themselves along with the laundry a couple of times too.
Tough games. To watch, to lose...just tough.
We need some easy ones, STAT.
~G