This is a blog about my first year out of the college life and in my first season as a professional baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. Just some thoughts on things and feelings at the time.
Friday, August 26, 2011
10 more days
Sorry it's been so long for the follow up to my last one, but the site wouldn't let me access my account, and i finally figured it out right now. Anyways, a little catch up to whats happened so far since the last blog. After the last game i wrote about, our team went on a good streak of games where we won 9 out of 11 games and were making a run to get out of last place. Right when it seemed we were gonna be doing it, we lost our edge and started to lose again. So right now we're about 5 games out of 4th place in the league, and we have 4 games coming up against the team ahead of us, so if we want to get there, we have to sweep them. As far as my personal performances have gone of late, I've been doing very well minus one outing a little over a week ago. I had a streak of 11 innings where i hadn't given up a run yet and only 4 hits. I let that get into my head and thought I could keep it going, but i got too comfortable and gave up 4 runs in 2.1 innings. So I learned a good lesson that day. Since then i'm back to being a solid help to the team out of the pen. I got my first career save the other day, and it was the second outing in a row where i was used in the last inning to finish a game. So hopefully that means that for these last 10 games i'll be in the closer role, a role i've wanted my whole life. As i just said we only have 10 games left, which means in 11 days i get to go back to Fresno. Which i'm actually excited for cause i miss my family and friends. I'm only going to be back there for a little over 10 days though, because i was invited to instructs sept 18th - oct 21st. It's a time where you get one on one time with coordinators and the other pitching coaches to get better. So i'm pretty excited for that. Then i should be free until Feb. Anyways i gotta get started on the day, we have to have a good last 10 games. I'll update the blog a lot sooner than a month in between unlike this last one. Thanks for reading.
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