He's thrown some in the bullpen, but he doesn't get in there a lot during games.
He must have fouled off 24 pitches in a row before he got that hit.
It kind of came out of the blue. But he smacked it really hard to the opposite field.
We are still early in the year, and I can't keep Alex out there seven innings. The same with Hunter. Our pitching isn't four deep, which is where we have a tough time.
Today was a good day if you could just eliminate the first inning of the first game. We showed a lot of heart coming back. Unfortunately we ran out of time.
We finally got those big base hits with two people in scoring position, instead of the two-out hit with nobody on, which we had been doing.
He had good control. I think that was a bit hard on Alex. He walked the next guy (after being warned). But his arm was looking good and his velocity in the last few innings was better than the first few innings.
He threw really well. We had one bad inning where he had five earned runs, and one unearned, then the rest of the runs were unearned.
That's the thing. You get a couple of innings like that and you can go six or seven innings. His curve was working. His fastball up (high) was working, an outstanding outing for a sophomore.
That's the thing - we have to be able to stop the bleeding, and we haven't been able to do that in a couple of innings. If we eliminate those innings from both games, we are right there.
