The End of the Road – For Now

The tired Titans are triumphant as they hop a plane back to Southern California ending an eleven day road trip. The team played 8 games in eleven days and only fell in one game in that time, which is an excellent record for the road. The Titans have definitely been on a tear with their bats and we are hoping to see some of that action this coming Thursday through Saturday series against Oral Roberts at Goodwin Field.

The loss came against Oklahoma State on Saturday, as Oklahoma State played the double header for the day, taking out the Rhode Island Rams in the first game as well. The Titans had an uncharacteristic 4 errors during the game, which gave the Cowboys the oomph to get past the Titans 10-6. The Titan bats were still humming along and we still managed to have double digit hits for the game at 13. Our problem, outside of the errors which allowed the Cowboys a five run sixth was that we left 9 men on base. Our attitude – the team had an 11 game winning streak and you can’t win them all. The Titans played better than anticipated for the duration of the road trip, so losing one is ok with us.

We faced the Rhode Island Rams again today for our final game of the tournament. After we scored in the first inning when Gary Brown hit a triple, and then scampered home on a passed ball, the Rams answered back by putting up a 3 spot. It was now time for the Titans to play come-from-behind baseball. Any true Titan fan knows better than to count our team down and out, as they proved in 2004 by winning the College World Series after a 15-16 start on the year. Up until the seventh inning, the contest remained very even with neither team scoring any more runs. Top of the seventh, Khris Davis doubled down the left field line. Then, Jeff Newman bunted, but instead of being a sac, was safe at first, and when no one was paying attention continued on to second, stretching the bunt into a double. Tyler Pill came into the game as a pinch hitter for Joe Scott, and with one swing of the bat proved that the Pill tradition of being a clutch hitter in a tight situation is still alive and well. Tyler doubled bringing in two RBI’s and evening the score. Starting off the 8th, Christian Colon singled up the middle, and Josh Fellhauer bunted him over to 2nd. Jared Clark got a free pass to first and then Nick Ramirez singled to right. Bases were now loaded for Khris Davis. Davis hit the ball to right field where it was caught, but it was a sac fly and Colon scored bringing the Titans into the lead for the first time since the top of the first. They then held on so Noe Ramirez took his 3rd win, while Michael Morrison took his 3rd save on the season.

I totted up a few stats because I was interested to see how we played during this extended road trip. . .here’s how we stand:

As you can see we outscored our opponents by a total of 50 runs, which works out to outscoring our opponents on average of 6.25 runs per game over the course of the trip, even with the loss. And look at the batting averages of our starters. Whatever was in the water or the air on this trip, I just hope they bring it on home to Goodwin Field and continue their run of total domination with the bats.
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LK Gardner-Griffie
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