Titans Winning Streak Continues

Tuesday night the Titans took the field against the Arizona Wildcats. We have enjoyed seeing them home for a while and the two-game Arizona series finishing Wednesday will be the end of six straight home games. Kevin Rath got the nod for starting pitcher. Mid-week games usually have what we in the stands call pot-luck pitching. You start with one, and it’s kind of like a sampler plate, by the time you reach the end of the game, you’ve sampled almost the entire bull-pen. Well, the game ran a little different than normal in that the Titans used only 3 pitchers for the entire game. Kevin Rath went 5 innings, then Travis Kelly pitched 3, and Nick Ramirez came in to close the game out. The Titan pitchers combined for 11 strike outs during the game.

I’ll have to admit that when Rath took the mound and walked the first batter, gave up a double to the second, hit the third and gave up a single and a run to the fourth, I thought we were in for a very long game. Four batters to the plate, not one out and the Wildcats had already scored. The Rath seemed to take stock, settle in and he then struck out the side and the game was on. On Titan offense, Christian Colon opened things with a bang by homering at his first at bat on a 2-2 pitch, which evened things up nicely. The Titan offense managed to put one run up in each of the first three innings, and then 2 in the 5th when Gary Brown doubled, and Josh Fellhauer homered. The Wildcats managed to score one more run in the 3rd, but weren’t able to put any more runs up on the board after that. Travis Kelly has not had a lot of pitching time this year so far because he has had a few issues with mechanics, but when he came on in relief took control of the mound. It was certainly good to see him back on form. Nick Ramirez came in for the close, and racked up two strike outs and a ground out to finish up the game.

We had a little bit of a scuffle between Wildcats coach, Andy Lopez and the officials when the home plate umpire gave a warning to the Wildcats pitcher for interruption of his movement. I didn’t see how the guy even threw the ball straight because he actually turned around to face second base in his wind up and then whipped around to throw the ball. It was very evident this was a ploy to try and confuse the Titan batters as he pitched the remaineder of the game facing the batter’s box.

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LK Gardner-Griffie
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