Though the semester is over, baseball plus the basement has kept me busy. I am going to try to rip out more carpet tomorrow; I have some nice matting to lay down in its place. And using those heavy duty scissors has given me sore forearms!
I’ve got some baseball to talk about as well.
Workouts:
Wednesday: weights only between the Bradley MVC game (11-7 loss) and the Chiefs 3-2 win over the Dayton Dragons (very well played game)
The weights: pull ups: 50 plus, 7 sets of 7 plus a set of 5 (mixed the grip)
bench: 10 x 134, 3 sets of 6 x 155
high incline: 6 x 105, 6 x 105, 5 x 110
4 inch trap bar: 10 x 134, 10 x 184, 10 x 225
Thursday: 10k walk (6.2 mile course: 5 hill course plus 1.25) in 1:34:27, 3 minutes faster than two days earlier. I was at 1:02:57 at mile 4 and walked my fastest 2 after that (14:2x average). Teenager yelled at me and I yelled back.
Friday (today) slow 2 miler after weights:
pull ups 7 sets of 7 then 2 sets of 3 to get 55 reps (mixed the grip)
bench: 10 x 134, 7 x 155, 5 x 160, 4 x 160
incline: 3 sets of 5 x 134
high incline: 3 sets of 6 x 105
Baseball:
Bradley lost to Belmont 11-7 in a game that saw the Braves take 1-0 and 4-1 leads. Belmont then lead 8-4 before back to back Brave home runs cut it to 8-7, but it never got closer.
The game was scheduled to be played the day before.
Night: the Chiefs beat the Dayton Dragons 3-2 behind excellent pitching. Rincon started by retiring the first 6 batters he faced, but gave up 3 big hits (including a HR) in the 3’rd, but then regained form. The bullpen was solid, throwing 4.3 shutout innings.
Thursday: not quite as cold but the bats WERE cold. The Chiefs lost 1-0 despite mostly good pitching. After 5 solid innings from the starter (allowed 1 hit) and 2 shut out innings from relief pitcher 1 (and a spectacular double play off a line drive caught by the first baseman), then came the 8’th inning:
strikeout, walk, walk, walk, walk, strikeout, strikeout. That was the lone run of the inning and the game.
With the exception of the 4 walk sequence, the pitchers on both teams owned the game.
The Chiefs got my hopes up with a lead off single in the bottom of the 9’th, but advanced no further.
Life of an old goat 