Not a bad effort, but tough one to lose

I was reasonably happy with our performance tonite. The Royals are a good club, no shame in losing to them. They have 3 12 year olds that were All-Stars last year, so they have some talent. Jerald pitched well and had a nice bomb to CF. Matt had the at-bat of the night--9 pitches I think, which ended with a base hit. I love to work the opponent's pitch count like that.

With 3 games in 4 days, I had to juggle and watch pitch counts some what. That didn't help our cause any. I wanted Mickey available for Saturday or Monday, so I had to yank him at 20. Spencer struggled a little, but he has never pitched before. I have confidence in him for later in the year, though he is toasted on pitch count for the next 2 games.

We struck out 10 Royals, and we struck out 12 times. I'd like to see us put the ball in play a little more. Everybody but Spencer and CJ struck out at least once tonite. Mickey did a good job at first getting a couple outs.

I thought the boys played reasonably smart when the ball was hit to them. We did the right thing, which makes me very happy. We fell a little short in some cases where when not immediately involved in a play, we weren't backing up throws and stuff like that. But we will improve.

Hope the rain holds off. I love that we get another shot 14 hours later.....