Catching Up

My goodness it has been quite some time since our last post, so we've got a lot of ground to cover. The Mavs went 1-2 in three, one-run games against the 66ers, split a four-game home series against Lake Elsinore, and last night fell in a pitchers duel at Rancho Cucamonga. We'll get back to last night's Rancho game later, but for now we'll focus on the two previous series.

The Mavs could have easily swept that series against the 66ers just with a little more timely hitting. The team went into that series with great numbers at the plate with runners in scoring position. But for some reason, they just couldn't get that clutch hit when they needed it most.

The comeback win against Lake Elsinore in the first game of the series looked like it might have been a good sign of things to come. The Mavs got pummeled in the next two games by a combined score of 28-7, and gave up 38 hits to the Storm. But it was good to see them bounce back from those losses to win big themselves by a 10-1 score in the final game of the series.

If you've read these posts before, we've brought up the topic of how the Mavs weren't playing complete games. It looked like they had solved that problem against Lake Elsinore the first time around, but more of the same has shown up again. Sometimes, that's just how it goes. For instance, you can't apply the lack of a complete game theory to last night's loss. Nobody in the Cal League would've been able to hit Steve Marek the way he was dealing for the Quakes last night. But it was very encouraging to see Jon Lockwood throw his best game of the year, even though he picked up the loss for making one mistake. I'm interested to see how the rest of the series against the Quakes plays out. I like our chances with Cotter and Vega going the next two days.

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