Dexture mccall jr6/5/2023 ![]() ![]() If you don’t stay in shape and keep your strength during this season, you’re not going to last.” When asked how he hopes to endure the longer season, McCall said “Our strength and conditioning coach Joe is always on top of us. ![]() This will be the longest season they have played so far in their careers. Most of the Bandits’ players played short-season rookie league last year. The challenge now for the Bandits is to sustain this kind of play over the remaining four months of the season. Rogelio Armenteros had similar numbers with the Bandits – 18 innings, 20 strikouts and 3 walks with a 1.93 ERA – before being promoted to the Lancaster Jethawks. He has pitched 17.1 innings, and has a 2.08 ERA with 24 strikeouts against only 3 walks. The have held opponents to three or fewer runs in 9 of the last 10 games. The pitching staff has also turned things around. The Bandits are 8-0 in games where they do not commit an error, and 2-12 in games where they commit at least one error. The Bandits’ first win didn’t come until the sixth game of the season, which was also the first where they did not commit an error. One stat that seems to back up the idea they were pressing or playing tight is errors. Now we’re looser, and we’re just having fun,” Marlow said. “That’s part of the game and when you do that, good things come.” “I think when we first got here it was kind of a press where we had to do this, had to do that. Marlow felt the team was playing tight at the beginning of the season. “When you slow the game down, things come to you a lot easier and it makes the game a lot easier.” I feel like I had been rushing and everything,” Marlow said. “I think the only adjustment I made was in slowing the game down. He recently went through a six game stretch where he went 12 for 25. Infielder Brooks Marlow is another player who has been on a hot streak after getting off to a slow start. When asked what his change in approach was, McCall said “Mentally, trying to stay up the middle of the field, not pulling off balls, getting a good pitch to hit. Without him being on top of me things wouldn’t be going as well.” “He’s always there when I have questions so I give all the props to him. “He’s been on me every day,” McCall said. McCall credited hitting coach Joel Chimelis for the turn around. Since then he is 15 for 37 with 5 doubles and a home run. He started out 2 for 24 in his first six games and was struggling so much that Bandits’ Manager Omar Lopez finally benched him for two games. McCall’s season has mirrored the Bandits’ season so far. Needless to say there has been a drastic improvement in almost every aspect of their game.ĭexture McCall hit his first home run in the second game of that April 28 double-header. They won the first game 11-2 and the second game 3-0, and committed no errors in either game. Their best day of the season was when they swept both games of a double-header against the South Bend Cubs on April 28. The Kernels pounded out 15 hits against four different Bandits’ pitchers. They were held to five hits, and committed five errors. Their worst game was on opening day back on April 7 when they lost 12-4 to the Cedar Rapids Kernels. In their next ten game they nearly reversed those numbers entirely, going 8-2 and scoring 40 runs to their opponents’ 21. They were outscored 63-32 during that stretch. The Quad Cities River Bandits got off to a very tough start this season, going 2-10 in their first 12 games. ![]()
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