THE SQUARE PULLED ONE OUT OF THE HAT

IT WAS SIMPLY STUNNING
IT was almost unexpected
But once again in almost unbelievable fashion
Joey Hillers boys got it done.
Now most of you know that I have a blog for Tattnall and I have enjoyed it immensely.
But tonight I write on here
basically because this is a more personal blog
Its a baseball story but its not a gamer story
This is how in my eyes Tattnall pulled one out against a team that suddenly wasn't scared of the Trojans and maybe just maybe had a little more talent than the Trojans.
I saw the games Wednesday night and I saw a bewildered Tattnall Square team pull out a win in the first game despite not playing its best game and then I saw them get slammed in the second game.
I saw frustration in players eyes, the first time I had truly seen that all year.

Then on Thursday Tattnall had the bases loaded in the first inning and Strong Rock, who by the way, has a baseball team as strong as a rock, came right back in their half of the inning and put four on the board.
Tattnall was in serious trouble.
Now we get to hero number one and that would be Dawson Brown.
Now Dawson is just back from a broken bone in his foot and made his first appearance in the second game on Wednesday. He didn't pitch poorly but he wasn't the same guy who had been dominant before the injury.
Dawson returned to being dominant on Thursday and kept Tattnall in the game.
The bats came alive enough to tie the game at four but Browns pitches for the series were done. Brooks Gorman used his 34 pitches and was nursing a 5-4 lead but Strong Rock was threatening in the last inning.
Who the heck does Joey Hiller go to now ?
Of course it only made sense.
Lets put Trey Ham in . Yes Trey Ham the catcher, who had been behind the plate for over 20 innings in the last 24 hours. Yes Trey Ham who has not pitched a single inning all year.
Trey walked in a run on a very questionable pitch and had the bases loaded with only one out. The Tattnall season was going to be over in a matter of a minute.
But then the game got crazy, crazier than it had been before.
Hunter Alexander was behind the plate for maybe the first time all year, and he couldn't handle one of Ham's pitches. The ball rolled to the backstop but Alexander was on it and threw to Ham covering and the runner trying to score was easily out. But the runner going from second to third forgot how may outs there were and started jogging towards the plate. Ham put the tag on him and it was the third out, forcing the third out.
Tattnall gets Gorman on base and its time for hero number two.
Trey Ham comes up and rips a line drive into the left center gap and Tattnall has runners on second and third and Alexander rips a hit to score Gorman.Then with two outs Kaden Toth rips a single to give Tattnall a huge insurance run.
So Ham comes out and gets the first two men out before losing the strike zone. A visit by JB Brooks doesn't help and a batter later after the second walk, Coach starts to walk out to take Trey out and Trey basically waves him off. He battles back from a 3-0 count to throw two strikes and throws another close pitch that is called a ball. An error scored a run to make it 7-6.
This time Trey is gone .
Time for another hero in Carter Fink a sophmore who gets the number four hitter to ground to third and Tattnall wins 7-6
To call this a gutty performance by Tattnall would be an understatement. It was damn near a miraculous win.
Joey Hiller and his brilliant coaching staff never gave up on this team and it showed . These kids were challenged the entire series and they found a way to advance.
It is my friends, what Tattnall expects and usually does.