Baseball Diamond Notes: Sloppy Defense Compounds Offensive Woes

A handful of errors, coupled with the Stags’ on-again, off-again hitting, has really hurt the squad of late.

In yesterday’s doubleheader against St. Peter’s, Fairfield committed three errors in total. In game one, the lone error did not prove too costly, as the Peacocks went from being up 7-1 to 8-1. The same cannot be said for game two, however.

After jumping ahead 2-0 and then letting the Peacocks tie it up, Fairfield booted a ball to give St. Peter’s the go-ahead run. The error came with one out in the top of the third. The Stags would not recover.

In its last five games, Fairfield has made 11 errors. Four of those five games have been multi-error games. Many of those errors, like the error in yesterday’s game two, proved costly in close situations.

With only three or four guys swinging the bat well lately, the Stags cannot afford to give opponents extra outs. After scoring a whopping 20 runs in the three games prior to yesterday’s twin bill, the Stags notched a meager three runs combined on Saturday.

-Frank Romano