Portland @ Oregon (Pilots win series 1-0)

[cordy02c]

2-1 portland bottom of 5

[greenyellow]

Jones has had a good start to the season. Is he a freshman?

Yep. Horton has some really talented FR this year.

[oregontrack]

My only beef with Hortonball:

Pizza gets a leadoff walk, Horton has Jones sacrifice him to second. It's on Marder and Kuresa to drive Pizza home.

That's all well and good, but right now, Jones is your best hitter, and Marder and Kuresa are both really struggling. The strategy is sound, but the pieces are not. It's one thing for a poor hitter to sacrifice a player over, but Jones knocked in your only run of the game on a triple his last AB. If you want a base hit, the odds say Jones is a MUCH better bet to get you one, not Marder or Kuresa. At least not right now.

[cordy02c]

5-1 portland bottom of 7

[duckgrad99]

It looks like it might take awhile for this team to gel, especially offensively.

[cordy02c]

ducks with bases loaded 1 out bottom of 7 pizza up

[cordy02c]

peterson pinch hits for pizza

[cordy02c]

5-3 now 2 run single by jones

[cordy02c]

ducks lose 5-3

[oregontrack]

5-3 now 2 run single by jones

This only adds to my beef with sacrificing Jones earlier.

Yeah, bad game. Portland is 5-1 against us since the rebirth. They just own us.