Traverse City 4, Chillicothe 2
It's just hard. That's how it is. It's just hard to focus on the game at hand knowing what's around the corner. Everything, one way or the other, is winding down and things are slowly getting back to the Fall and Winter Season moods. That's how it always is when baseball season finally ends.
For the offense, they did manage to pull something together for the third inning, when Joe Spiers had a double, Sean Anderson was hit by a pitch, Bubba Garcia sac bunted to move the runners over, and then Josh Blackstock had a 2-RBI single. Unfortunately, that was all that the Chillicothe Paints could come up with.
Playing against a team like Traverse City, a team that still has some type of chance of reaching the postseason, it was going to be a hard road to travel through. In fact, on the very second pitch of the game, Traverse City got on the board real quick with a solo home run shot past right field.
Mike Rocco made the start for the Paints, and he gave up 6 hits and 5 walks, and in total 4 runs in 4 and 2/3 innings pitched. It was a rough game for Rocco, who was indeed not getting any beenfit of the doubt on borderline calls behind the plate. It was just tough all around, and not surprisingly, Rocco was upset, and he would let the home plate umpire hear about it in the ninth inning. He would get thrown out of the game, but you can't really blame him because of the bad track record the umpiring crews have had this year. It's just a shame.
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Not every crew that has umpired this year has been bad, but you are right, the home plate umpire last night has not had a very good year. I have seen him behind the plate 5 different times and he has been awful. Inconsistent strike zone and he flat out missed a fouled off bunt early in the year and called it a wild pitch. He might want to stay away from home plate!
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