Sinclair Community College\u2019s men\u2019s baseball team finished up a challenging road trip during the break between quarters.<\/p>\n
The Tartan Pride traveled down to play the defending national champion Louisiana State University-Eunice Bengals for a four-game series. The Pride, who came into the series on a one-game losing streak, lost three of the first four.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst off, LSU-Eunice is one of the most talented junior college teams in the country,\u201d coach Steve Dintaman said via email. \u201cThey have so much talent that they could win a lot of games in any Division-1 conference in the north.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first game, on March 24, saw Sinclair lose 6-7, in part because of six errors, a performance that Dintaman called \u201cuncharacteristic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nearly impossible to beat anyone with six errors, let alone the defending national champions,\u201d Dintaman said.<\/p>\n
March 25 was a doubleheader. The Pride dropped the first game 3-9 and the second 0-5. In the opener, the Pride managed 10 hits and two walks but couldn\u2019t score enough runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn [that] game, our pitching staff didn\u2019t throw enough strikes, we walked 10 batters,\u201d Dintaman said. \u201cNot only do they have dangerous hitters, they also all run like the wind. They stole [more than] 15 bases in one day against us and it wasn\u2019t all on our pitchers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The issues with stolen bases continued into the second game. Not only that, the Pride only had three hits.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth pitchers threw well. McElroy for us, pitched 5 innings and left trailing 4-0, he pitched well but walked the leadoff hitter twice,\u201d Dintaman said. \u201cOnce [that batter] gets on base, you\u2019re looking at two stolen bases every time.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the fourth and final game on March 26, the Pride won 7-4 behind a strong effort from starting pitcher Alex Kimsey. He threw seven innings, allowed three hits, three runs (all earned) and walked and struck out four. Dintaman called the effort \u201cthe game of Kimsey\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen Buglione lead the hitters with four total bases and a double.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur guys battled at the plate, had great at-bat\u2019s and put pressure on their defense,\u201d Dintaman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was Eunice\u2019s first home loss and one of the biggest regular season wins in our program\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dintaman said if the team does what they are supposed to and stays healthy, \u201cthen I love our chances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sinclair Community College\u2019s men\u2019s baseball team finished up a challenging road trip during the break between quarters. The Tartan Pride traveled down to play the defending national champion Louisiana State University-Eunice Bengals for a four-game series. The Pride, who came into the series on a one-game losing streak, lost three of the first four. \u201cFirst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1CF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6241\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}