She'll be our lead-off batter. She's just a quick kid and she's a huge addition. Overall, we have more team speed, which is good because we won't hit the long ball like we did last year.
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He was throwing pretty well. He got himself in trouble a little bit with hitting the lead-off batter. Passed ball, then boom-boom.
Sean did a good job for us at the top of the lineup. He is our lead-off man and he needs to get on base and score runs and he did that in this game.
They're better than people give them credit for. Their lead-off girl hit a triple in the last game.
We'll hit the ball well sometimes, other times not at all. We need our lead-off guys to get on base.
Oh, most definitely. We lost some good seniors. We lost our lead-off hitter, number one pitcher, and number two batter. So we're looking to replace some good people, but that's what recruiting is all about, and that's what coaching is all about.
We thought we'd try to get him some pitches. He's still not seeing a whole lot, but he gets on base and scores runs. What more could you ask for in a lead-off guy
I got a fastball across the middle on the homer. I'll take some hacks. After the first inning, I'm not really a lead-off man. I've got to try to drive guys in just like anyone else.
Especially in the seventh inning, with their lead-off batter (Little) coming up, and all she'd done against her tonight, Shelley stepped up and showed her maturity in finishing the game so strong.
He was, like, a 160-pound shortstop. Our junior year he batted second and I was lead-off. He didn't drink. He wasn't up to running around to the bars that we used to do, which is OK. He hung around the weight room a lot. He really got upper-body thick.
Walks have hurt us in one-run losses. When you walk the lead-off man, there is a good chance that he will be in scoring position with one out.
Both of the runs they got we walked the lead-off man. You just can't walk the lead-off man in a close game.
To be perfectly honest, no knock on my girls, just give all the credit to Lancaster. We haven't figured her out for 14 innings now. We didn't get enough lead-off hits, we didn't get enough girls in scoring position with less than two outs we just didn't do enough things to win a softball game tonight.