First we scrimmaged the West Palm Dirtbags on tuesday night. This is a team that is filled with players who played on the Hammertime team which was Coach Pete's team several years ago. All of the players on the Dirtbags are now in various colleges playing ball. Game started off well for Diamond Vision. The old saying is patience is a virtue and we showed that in the first inning. We made the opposing pitcher work and ended up squeezing out a run in the first to take an early lead. We ended up scoring 5 overall as we exploded in the third. Offensively we were led by Mike Kelly and Brad Gero who each collected a pair of hits. The pitching continued to be outstanding for Diamond Vision as we did not allow a hit till the 5th inning which was very impressive while facing this team filled with college hitters. On the mound was Michael Kelly, Chi Chi Gonzalez, Kurt Copeland, Orlando Hernandez, and Brad Gero. This proved to be a good tune up game as we were heading into this weekends Team One tournament. Final score was Diamond Vision 5 Dirtbags 2.
Our first game was saturday against the Florida Snappers, we were supposed to play Friday bur mother nature had other plans for us. It was an early game being at 8:30. It took a little while for our bats to get woken up as their lefty baffled us for the first 5 innings but then we exploded for 6 to take a commanding lead. Don't want to sound like broken record but once again our pitching was very very dominate. Michael Kelly, Brad Gero and T.J. Farjad were next to unhittable on the hill as the Snappers could only manage to come up with two hits. There were many offensive highlights but the main one was Scooter Price taking a fastball over the left field fence for a 2 run homerun in the 7th inning to ice the cake for Diamond Vision.
The second game of the day was against Baseball Factory. These games are usually interesting because you never quite know what your opponent is going to be like because they are just players put together for that tournament. This game ended up being another dominate win for Diamond Vision as we won 6-1. On the bump was Kurt Copeland and Adrian Talton. They combined to throw a 3 hitter. One of those hits however was a moon shot to the 5 hole hitter. From what I hear many people think the ball is still traveling, but its ok Adrian you just wanted to make the other team feel good by giving them a run, very noble of you.
Sunday's game was against the Palm Beach Select. Their pitcher proved to be next to unhittable for us. I would compare their pitchers velocity to that of whatever Coach Pete's velocity would be while throwing batting practice (I can assure you Pete hasn't thrown batting practice in a very very long time.) Their pitcher proved the age old tale that its not how hard you throw it, but where you throw it. We ended up tieing the game at 1-1 as extra innings are not allowed during pool play in order to keep everything flowing well.
We were then supposed to play at 3:30 which was going to be our make up game from friday, but once again Mother Nature just didn't want it to happen. So the game has been rescheduled for tomorrow at 2:00, hopefully Mother Nature won't mind letting us squeeze this one in.
Diamond Vision 2009 Record 7-1-1
Thats all sports fans
Jim Holton
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