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’Canes baseball began their final full week of scrimmages today, as the squad gets ready to take on Niagara next Friday. It was a quick 5 inning scrimmage Wednesday night with Alex Giroux and Brixton Lofgren on the mound to start the game.
The first inning was relatively quiet, Giroux sat down his batters 1-2-3 in quick work, and Lofgren did the same minus an error from Cuvet. They both sat in the mid 80’s, utilizing their off speeds to induce weak contact.
But in the second inning, the home run party got started courtesy of a Derek Williams 2-run homer against Giroux. It was pretty remarkable how Williams pulled that ball with how it was middle-out to outside, when he jumps on those he’s feeling confident. Lofgren also gave up a run in the second; an error by Jake Ogden followed up by an incredible play from him at short, and a Michael Torres RBI single to close it out.
In the third Giroux’s struggles continued with another home run given up, this time to Fabio Peralta. He sneakily continues to be one of the better performing freshmen in the class. Jake Ogden also got a hit off Giroux. The bats were mainly quiet of Lofgren all night, a few walks here and there but nothing strung together.
In the fourth Daniel Cuvet joined the party with a 112 mph home run off Giroux that cleared the scoreboard by a long way. But again nothing really materialized after the home run for the rest of the hitters. Freshman Ryan Ashford came in for the bottom of the inning and continued to show his promise with a quick 1-2-3 inning. It's a mix between his arm slot and straight up stuff that keeps hitters off balance and grounding out consistently, a great sign for his development.
Giroux came out for the fifth and final inning, finding some optimism with no hits given up and only one walk in the inning.
Overall this scrimmage was a pretty difficult one to dissect. Besides the three home runs, the bats weren’t that active which is quite worrying. Not much to takeaway on the defensive side either, no really bad errors and they kept it clean for the most part.
The squad will take the field again Friday with the 9th scrimmage set for 1:45 p.m.
The first inning was relatively quiet, Giroux sat down his batters 1-2-3 in quick work, and Lofgren did the same minus an error from Cuvet. They both sat in the mid 80’s, utilizing their off speeds to induce weak contact.
But in the second inning, the home run party got started courtesy of a Derek Williams 2-run homer against Giroux. It was pretty remarkable how Williams pulled that ball with how it was middle-out to outside, when he jumps on those he’s feeling confident. Lofgren also gave up a run in the second; an error by Jake Ogden followed up by an incredible play from him at short, and a Michael Torres RBI single to close it out.
In the third Giroux’s struggles continued with another home run given up, this time to Fabio Peralta. He sneakily continues to be one of the better performing freshmen in the class. Jake Ogden also got a hit off Giroux. The bats were mainly quiet of Lofgren all night, a few walks here and there but nothing strung together.
In the fourth Daniel Cuvet joined the party with a 112 mph home run off Giroux that cleared the scoreboard by a long way. But again nothing really materialized after the home run for the rest of the hitters. Freshman Ryan Ashford came in for the bottom of the inning and continued to show his promise with a quick 1-2-3 inning. It's a mix between his arm slot and straight up stuff that keeps hitters off balance and grounding out consistently, a great sign for his development.
Giroux came out for the fifth and final inning, finding some optimism with no hits given up and only one walk in the inning.
Overall this scrimmage was a pretty difficult one to dissect. Besides the three home runs, the bats weren’t that active which is quite worrying. Not much to takeaway on the defensive side either, no really bad errors and they kept it clean for the most part.
The squad will take the field again Friday with the 9th scrimmage set for 1:45 p.m.
