They got hits. Um, but the stone bases
are what, you know, kind of, um
, you know, we got exposed again today and
, um, you know, really have to clean
that part of the game up, you know,
especially late in the game and they took advantage of
some, some of our guys, um, got
him in scoring position and, um, you know
, got the big hit when they needed it.
So they did a good job in the ninth and
we've had, we've had conversations, um, all
year long. So I guess I have to message
it a little bit differently, um to, to
figure that out, um, because it's, it's
a real thing and especially late in the game and
, um, you give, you know, guys
chances to get back into a game or to win
the game and, um, you know, kind
of affected the outcome tonight and we didn't have much
chances after that. Um Ortiz did a really good
job, uh, the ball, we had trouble
getting the ball off the ground tonight in general.
Um I think we had probably had close to a
70% ground ball rate as far as us hitting it
on the ground after that first inning, Ortiz did
a really good job of keeping the sinker down and
running, running it on our hands and us chasing
maybe a little bit off. But I thought the
Ortiz did a really good job after that first inning
to really shut us down and kept us, kept
it off the barrel and we just couldn't get it
off the ground and not in the air. Yeah
. Um, yeah, he went obviously seven innings
and went out in the eighth inning. Thought his
pitch count was, um, efficient enough where we
, I thought he got in the eighth. Obviously
, the walk to Davis cost him, um,
you know, to continue. Uh, but I
thought he deserved it with, you know, a
really fast seven, seventh inning. Um, but
yeah, he pitched great. Um, everything was
working for him. I thought the change up was
excellent. Slider was excellent. Fastball command was,
um, as good as it gets. So,
yeah, I mean, I thought he had enough
to get the eighth inning. Uh, once the
guy got on is, you know, when I
decided to, to go with Scott.