Bottom line is this team is young and struggling to take the next step to beat the top teams in the ACC and nation.
They don't play good enough defense and they don't execute the fundamentals of winning baseball.
Lala got the job done getting Riveria over to 3rd. Was ready to pull my hair out as Lala took strike one and then made the same mistake as Vilar pushing at the ball when bunting. Lala has to remember he's sacrafice bunting. He's used his technique when he's bunting for a hit which is wrong...
He used poor technique in his one attempt to bunt. You don't push the bat at the ball, you catch the ball with the bat. It's a sacrafice bunt, not a bunt for a hit. I can't understand why year after year I see bad technique when sacrifice bunting.
I totally agree. I wouldn't mind seeing Gil at 1st base against lefties. Toral is getting owned by left handed pitching as well. This is killing us at critical times when all we need is for them to put the ball in play to score runs.