College Baseball: Padyšák back in the game. Pospíšil has his first homeruns
There were four Czech players playing in college baseball in USA in the previous week. Furthermore Jan Pospíšil did so with two homeruns.
After a short pause Daniel Padyšák returned for Georgia. And he got an opportunity to play in two games right away. First, he played against Kennesaw State for an inning as a reliever. He managed it excellently with only 7 pitches needed. He then started the game on Saturday against Missouri. He didn’t allow any runs for two innings, but unfortunately he started the third inning with a walk and then hit two batters with a pitch. Coaches substituted him but all three runners reached the home base later on. In the end, Georgia won 10-7 and currently holds 27-9 record.
Michal Kovala continues with good performances. In the previous week he got a chance to play in Tuesday game against Georgia Southern. There he threw the third and the fourth innings with one hit and two strikeouts. Georgia Tech won 5-4 also thanks to him.
Jan Pospíšil playing for Pitt Community had to wait till April for his first homerun. It came against Lenoir as a grand slam. With the floodgates opened he scored his second homerun against Brunswick on Saturday which kickstarted the comeback from 0-3 to 6-3. He then had a hit in each of two remaining games.
Date | Opponent | Result | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | BB | SB |
Apr 10 | Lenoir Community College | W, 12-7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Apr 13 | Brunswick Community College | W, 6-3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Apr 13 | Brunswick Community College | L, 9-0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Apr 14 | Brunswick Community College | L, 14-8 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Nicolas O’Rourke played two games for Diablo Valley. On Thursday he pitched against San Joaquin Delta and threw 3.1 innings where he allowed 4 runs (2 HR). In the offense he had 2 RBI which helped his team to 12-8 win. A day later he played against the same opponent in the right field and had two hits and one run in the offense. Unfortunately, his team lost 5-10.