“There’s just so much disappointment because this team was set up with the goal of reaching the baseball playoff semifinals.” This is what Andrea Graziani, president of Hotsand Macerata, says, the day after the clear defeat (5-0) on his own pitch against Grosseto who thus snatches the pass for the championship semi-final having won the series by winning 3 out of 5 matches, two of which in away.
It was a two-faced journey: the one in the poule scudetto was impeccable, so much so that he finished the group in first place, very disappointing in the following phase. “I won’t hide – says Graziani – that the first part was very positive, but now there’s only room for disappointment”. Grosseto, fourth in the group of the Poule scudetto, overturned the predictions of the eve: the round went through despite having played three away matches. “Perhaps – ventures the president – there was excessive tension, perhaps our coaches were not very lucid, it cannot even be ruled out that our group was less coaching than that of the Tuscans”
Hotsand Macerata won the two matches against Grosseto when Gabriele Quattrini got on the mound while they remained empty-handed when the hitter was a foreigner, but it should also be emphasized that in this phase there was no contribution hoped from the attack. “The defeat (1-0) in game 3 burns when we weren’t able to score points, the problem is in the extreme difficulty in serving”. It’s difficult to understand what happened because in the league the Maceratas had recorded a very positive batting average. “It’s hard to understand how it is possible to go from a phase in which he fought often and continuously to one in which this did not happen: there were some questionable technical choices, but above all the performance of those who had excellent performance was negative batting averages. It’s not even that they have irresistible pitchers: in short, there are still aspects that I struggle to understand.”
Now it’s time for the Scudetto semi-finals: San Marino-Grosseto; Bologna-Parma, while it’s time for the club to reflect on the season that has just closed. “Now let’s allow ourselves a little rest, then – concludes Graziani – we will make our reflections trying to include a few more Italians in the team, in any case there is something good from this formation and that something we absolutely want to keep considering that we also have some interesting young profiles”.
2023-08-23 04:27:47
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