complete game shutout!

In easily his best pitching performance ever, last night Will pitched a five inning, complete-game shutout, leading his team to a 4 – 0 victory.

Leo Mazzone’s goal is for a pitcher to throw 14 pitches an inning, and Will’s first four innings were 11, 12, 14, and 14 pitches. He struck out four in his first four innings and walked none. In the 5th inning Will struck out two more batters. He only allowed four soft hits the entire game.

In the field, Will fielded a grounder back to the mound, and threw the runner out at first. Later he covered first to record a putout, when the first-baseman ranged to his right to field a grounder in the hole.

Will also was the leading hitter at the plate, collecting two of the Dodgers’ six hits. inning Will singled up the middle in the first, but was forced out at second on Christian’s grounder to short. In the third Will hustled to stretch a single into a double, sliding in to just beat the throw from the outfield, Ryan Langerhans style.