Well the Geneva Twins have been incredible to start July, and it's leaving me scrambling to find how they have done it. So to make sense of it, we'll look at each aspect of the game for the Twins.
The teams pitching has been phenomenal, as starting pitchers Mitchell Powers (Southern New Hampshire University) and Luke Salerno (Castleton State College) have continued their success, and Christian Vukas (Wabash College) has found his form. Vukas and Powers pitched 8 innings their last times out against the Genesee Rapids, giving some much needed rest to the Twins bullpen during the series.
In addition to the starting pitching, Twins hitting has been incredible. Over this 8 game winning streak, Geneva's Western team has hit an unimaginable .332 average.
Leading the way for his team has been Bob Barnett (Widener University), the returning center fielder for the Twins. Putting together his own 8 game hitting streak, I asked if he thought that his hitting streak had a direct correlation to the team's winning streak. In a way, he agreed, but only in that him getting on base was giving RBI opportunities to his teammates who he knew would "hit [him] in."
One of those teammates has been the slugger Connor Simonetti (Kent State University). He has two homers in as many games against this Genesee team that is struggling to find the answer for the first baseman. At this point, the best answer might be to pitch around him as he has been punishing pitchers for going at him. Simonetti's first home run of the series was on Saturday night when he turned on a 3-0 fastball down the middle and launched it over the right field wall. Then, on Sunday night he took a first pitch and cracked it out of right center for number seven on the season. I was told tonight that Simonetti also parked two home runs in a game that was not finalized due to a delay against the Wellsville Nitros. So unofficially as of now he stands at nine long balls.
Random stats:
- The Twins are 20-2 when they score the first run this season.
- Connor Simonetti leads the league in home runs (7) and is tied for first in RBI's (26).
- Simonetti is nearing the NYCBL HR record of 14 in one season.
- 7 Twins are hitting in the top 30 in batting average.
Topher Lane is the voice of the Geneva Twins and Geneva Red Wings. He is on Twitter, @Topher_L, and you can tune into his broadcasts of every home game on teamline.cc
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