“That’s unacceptable I guess would be the word. “We remain shorthanded and especially so when we don’t get past the third inning on a start, in 10 games, that’s probably the sixth time we haven’t done that,” Handelsman said. Zach Carden (Creighton University) did work three innings to save the bullpen some on Wednesday. He only went three innings and allowed eight hits, six runs (four earned) with two walks and three strikeouts, and the River Dragons had to tax their pitching staff once again using Civic Memorial grads and current McKendree University pitchers Geoff Withers and Brandon Hampton on back-to-back nights. Zach Curry (Pittsburg State University) got the start on the mound and had his second ineffective starts. I thought we did too early and then it just gets to the point where it makes it just really tough to keep fighting back, fight back, fight back.” They swung the bats well and had some really good at-bats. If you don’t throw competitive strikes, you don’t get ahead in the count, you don’t make good 0-2 pitches, that’s what happens.
We talked about before that the teams in this league are too good. We have our nights where we’re just not very competitive. “You’ve got to be competitive on the mound. Nothing with last night had anything to do with what happened tonight,” Handelsman said. There was some wonder whether a disheartening loss like Tuesday’s would have some carryover, but certainly wasn’t an excuse for River Dragons manager Darrell Handelsman.
Their starter had a bunch of pitches through three innings and we were able to get into their bullpen after they played 12 innings last night and that was big.”Īlton (4-6), on the heels of a gut-punch loss Tuesday, 7-6 in 12 innings against the Burlington (Ia.) Bees in which the River Dragons squandered a 6-1 lead, simply had no juice from a pitching standpoint. I thought we drove it all over the field, put pressure on their defense, worked counts. I don’t really think there were a lot of cheap hits we had out there tonight. “I only had eight hitters to start it off, got six new guys here starting this week and they’ve all been hot at the same time. That’s really what it is,” Quincy manager Justin Paulsen said. Quincy scored in each inning but two, including the first four to race out to an 11-3 lead and never looked back against a bruised and battered Alton pitching staff at the moment.
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