HERTS RAPTORS SUFFER A DAY FULL OF LOSSES.
Report by Herts Baseball Newswire reporter, HUNTER DEVINE The Herts Raptors suffered their second walk off loss of the season on Sunday, falling 18-17 to the Braintree Rays. In both cases the Raptors had sizable leads only to watch them slip away through poor defence. Leading 10-2 through the first half of the game, Jake […]
AN UPDATE AFTER OUR FIRST WIN!
Last Sunday’s win, the first in Raptor history, was thebest I’d seen us play as a team. Everything was rolling along really. Pitching,Jake was awesome, defence, was awesome despite the rough infield which caused anumber of bad hops and the offence, which has put up 19 runs or more in thelast two games. On a […]
OP-EXTRA: OLD TIMERS’ RESPOND (Letter to the Editor)
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Herts Baseball legend and current Old Timers' ace, PAUL RAYBOULD, gives his vews on umpiring, field standards and other topics raised in the “Welcome to the Show” Column in the wake of the clash with the Raptors on '08 Opening Day. With reference to “Newswire Game 1 Recap”, although I understand […]
GAME 1 RECAP
Well it’s been a while since I updated this,and for good reason. The HSL did not end well for me. Snowed out games andhorrific stomach bugs led to some serious frustration at the lack of baseball Iwas playing. However, opening day finally arrived andwith it the chance to, not only play baseball for the […]
AN UNEXPECTED CALL UP
I’d already made a fielding error earlier inthe game which had cost us the lead. It’s funny, when you’re a rookie the onlyperson who seems to get particularly annoyed with your mistakes and errors isyourself. That or your team mates probably don’t let on that you’re now theirleast favourite guy on the team. I was […]