After Colbie Bell singled in the third inning and moved to second on Jace Dispenza's walk, he began showing Jacob Perrin, who was standing in the batter's box, how to snap off a curveball. Bell's none-too-subtle sign language prompted a visit to the mound by the Pali catcher and, one inning later, a fastball in the ribs when Bell reappeared at the plate. . . . Stephen Williams apparently likes what the Pali pitchers dish up. In two games against Pali, he's 5-for-5 with 2 homeruns and 8 RBIs. . . . Malibu would have batted around in the third inning of yesterday's game if there had been 11 or fewer hitters in the lineup. Instead, there were 14, so Jamie Van Soelen, Daniel Williams, and Brett Weinstock missed out on the fun. . . . The freshman--Sean Conrad, that is--can hit. He's batting .417 after five games and is tied for fourth on the team in hits.
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Note: I have never, nor will I ever give a player a direct order to throw at an opposing player. That being said, this was an example of the time honored tradition of players policing their own. Props to Colbie for taking the beaning like a man, taking his base, and coming around to score. Props to the Pali players (the coaching staff had nothing to do with THIS one) for A) hitting him low, and B) hitting him with something off-speed. It might be hard for the lay-person to realize, but some respect and admiration between players, coaches, and teams exists due to the way this strange but long-standing ritual went down. Also note that Malibu took the high road and did not retaliate, even though we had a 10 run lead. Might have had something to do with us not wanting to throw at the 310 lb. culprit with anything other than a real bullet, for fear of him trampling half of our Yountville bound squad.
Was it an off-speed pitch? I thought it was the big guy's rather anemic fastball. My hat's off to him if he could throw the change-up with that kind of accuracy in his first inning on the mound.
looked like a curveball from the 3rd base coach's box.
Oh yeah? Well it looked like a strike to me.
Care to settle this for us, Colbie?
Most definitely,
It was definitely a mediocre fastball, but a fastball nonetheless. Likewise it hit me actually pretty high up on the shoulder...I've got some nice seams to prove it too.
either way, curveball or fluffy fastball, as I said in my original comment, at least it was off-speed. Better than the Hollywood kid hitting us in the bat with his hanging fastball.
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