Barbee's World: Winners and losers on Day 1 at the NWAC Baseball Tournament

Friends of the Devils – LCC takes down Columbia Basin; and other notes from Story Field

LCC’s Cayden Spanier stares into the sunset along with the rest of a locked in Red Devil dugout during a 4-1 win over Columbia Basin in the opening round of the final bracket in the NWAC Tournament, Thursday, May 22, at David Story Field. / Photo courtesy of LCC Athletics

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Sam Barbee is an educator, a baseball coach, a game official, and a regular contributor to Blast Zone Media. He is an R.A. Long graduate, and a former leader for The Daily News sports desk.

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STORY FIELD — There are about 200 pitches, give or take, in a baseball game. There were four baseball games today. So that’s like 800 pitches, right? I could go look and do the math but it’s not that important. So let’s call it 800. For simplicity’s sake.

I probably saw maybe 30 chucks toward home plate today. Like actually watched. Hit, just caught, or managed to glance at. I remember an arm angle. Don’t remember what side or what team. Just a big long whippy arm action. I liked it. Was there flow?

I’m usually glued to the live-stream during my lunch at a high school, but that landed between games today, so I was stuck checking scores and whatever. So if this seems a little more sparse than last week’s softball renditions, I’m not lazy. Just busy. I did manage to catch the end of the nightcap for the hometown Red Devils, though, which we’ll get to later.

So we’re gonna keep the format the same. Because I liked it. Because it’s an easy way to hit a bunch of notes without having to worry about smoothly transitioning from topic to topic. I don’t need a clever paragraph or a quick, concise line (that isn’t my strength anyway).

No, I can play around with stuff here. So I shall. These are things I liked and didn’t like from the first day of the NWAC Baseball Championships.

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