We talked about how you can leave no doubt at the end of the game. We had two batters today that I was really disappointed in how we pitched. One of them was the first inning, and then, the golden rule of baseball you don't walk the tying run on base and bring the winning run to the plate. We did that, but other than that we did extremely well.
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