Last season our pitching outright stunk. Now in three games we limited a team that practices outside all year to a .150 batting average. I know that we hold scrimmages behind the netting in the WATTS, but our pitchers had not worked off a mound since the fall. I sure hope that this weekend is not a fluke.
Baseball simply has to succeed to justify the enormous expenses. It is our most expensive sport outside of football, compounded by our lack of a campus facility. I wonder what will happen when the Scrappers fade away after the 2020 season. Cafaro will probably nuke the facility and build something else on that site. Perhaps our future is at Cene Park. Or lacking space adjacent to campus, perhaps the university could take over an abandoned or seldom-used city facility, put in a turf field, and erect 500 modern seats. Borts or Pemberton come to mind.
