The margin is slim, the one between winning and losing in the post season, the one between the contenda and being a pretenda, the one between being the champ and being the also ran.
More than at any other time during an extended season, little things matter. Doing the technical stuff, the basics, the fundamentals. A miscue here and there, other things being equal, and the tolerance between success and failure increases.
Texas Longhorn’s were ready in yesterday’s elimination game with the Cardinals.
They fashioned a classic run in the top of the 3d. Lead off double. Runner advances on an infield out to the first sacker. Sacrifice fly plates the score. 1 nil, Texas.
In the bottom of the inning, the Cards left two on, without a tally. O.J. Hinojosa made a sterling play on a shot by Sutton Whiting. If he doesn’t, the Cards might have answered with a run of their own. They didn’t.
It was that kind of day. Louisville wasn’t ready enough. Continue reading U of L Forgets Fundamentals; Cards’ CWS Case Closed