Just back from Kennesaw. The pitching staff was excellent tonight. Cross was lights out, really had the KSU offense off balance with the mix of fastballs and curves. 2 longballs by KSU was all he gave up. Very impressed with Over in his inning of relief and then Darras. I was surprised it wasn't Routolo but after reading on here that he is still suspended now I know why. If no one has seen Darras pitch he reminds me of Al Harbasky(spelling?) from the Cardinals in the 70's. Aside from a little control issue with 3 walks he was very effective. Sidearm pitcher with that wild, hurky, jerky motion.
As for the offense, it was nice seeing guys like Sundberg, Siena and Testani come up big especially with Davey and Melley have off nights. Deroche-Duff just missed a homer to right center by about 2 feet off the wall. The guys really worked the count tonight and made the KSU pitchers throw a lot of pitches and work deep into counts. They were very effective on the base paths with several stolen bases, just one base blunder with Hill getting picked off first with 1st and 3rd and 2 outs in the 8th.
Very good effort by the boys tonight. Hope they keep it up tomorrow afternoon.
KSU does have a lot of lefty batters so it will be nice to have the lefty Kay going tomorrow.
