Clint Wheeler thinks his club might be acting a little too cool
for school.
The Gilroy High baseball manager saw his team fall to 1-5 on
days it plays when there is no class in session, as the Mustangs
lost on Friday 7-3 to visiting Monterey in the third-place game of
the Lions Easter Tournament.
GILROY – Clint Wheeler thinks his club might be acting a little too cool for school.
The Gilroy High baseball manager saw his team fall to 1-5 on days it plays when there is no class in session, as the Mustangs lost on Friday 7-3 to visiting Monterey in the third-place game of the Lions Easter Tournament.
It was another deflating defeat for GHS, which scored in the bottom of the sixth inning on a Jose Gamboa sacrifice fly to pull within a run, 3-2, entering the final frame of the game.
Gilroy’s starting pitcher, Taylor Chris, got into and out of several jams up until the seventh inning, but with a high pitch count, Chris was pulled in favor of Neal Dinsmore, who gave up four hits and a walk for four runs in two-thirds of an inning.
“We’re just not mentally prepared to play this game,” Wheeler said afterwards. “We gotta just get sick and tired of this and compete for a full game. We still don’t have that mean streak where we want to win.”
Both teams had more than their fare share of opportunities to score more runs, as Monterey threw GHS runners out at home plate twice, while Gamboa, playing right field, made several fantastic catches to deny Monterey runs.
“After the first one, I said to tell that right fielder ‘great catch,'” Monterey manager Michael Groves said. “After the second one, I said tell that right fielder, ‘great catch, but he’s pissing me off.’
“After the third one, I said tell that right fielder, ‘great catch, but I want him out of the game.”
Gamboa was clearly one of Gilroy’s few bright spots on an otherwise dark afternoon for the Mustangs, who have now lost two in a row and are currently 10-9 on the season. Gamboa scored on a triple by Roberto Celestino in the second, while Gilroy’s last run came in the seventh on an RBI-double by Lukas Fortino.
“Basically, we just waited around too long to come through,” Gamboa said. “We need someone to step up. We have hitting, we have all that. We just need a leader to get us through.”
The Mustangs will be back on the diamond today at 4 p.m. they host Live Oak.
