BaseBows: Marc Flores Crushes Several

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BaseBows: Marc Flores Crushes Several

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Friday night, May 2nd, 2014. First of four against NYIT.

Beautiful evening of baseball at Murakami stadium tonight.
Cool, very little breeze, and not a drop of rain. Decent crowd.

New York Technical Institute. They made a few errors, but
their pitchers just didn't have the arms for the bats the
'Bows brought tonight. Had some Manoa Magic on infield fly
balls early to get us going (there is no breeze in the park,
and infield fly to third is coming straight down, then at
the last second, curves/bends 6' towards the outfield 3B
never had a chance!) After that anomaly tho, it was all
bats from the home team.

Treat of the night? Without a doubt, it was #25 Marc Flores
just knocking them out of the park on consecutive swings

So, one of them was fair, with 2 men on for a 3 run homer...
& the two back-to-back swings that cleared the right field
fence foul over the bud light/ bullpen were sweet also
but it was on *one* hit the whole crowd just went nutz...
and was buzzing for 20 or 30 minutes after that one swing!

OK, it was a foul ball, not by much, but it was the *hit*

OMG. i don't use that phrase lightly, this hit, was just,
well, choose your own "i've never seen one like that"
before.

Marc crushed one, so high, and so hard? It cleared the
fence by 60' easily, and was still climbing when it left
the yard. It didn't peak and start to come down until a
few seconds after it was out of the park and into space.
I watched it all the way, hanging in the sky like an
asteroid headed to mars or something, just blown away
that it didn't hit the apex until the Waialae onramp!

That hit had to be well over 450 feet. I have seen lots
of balls hit out of Murakami stadium, and we have had
some major league hitters in this park, but never ever
have i seen one fly so high and easily to Moiliili!

Funny thing was on that swing? Marc didn't muscle it
or even swing hard, his stroke on that connection was
as pure and natural as water flowing downhill. Even my
little league buddy, who was here for Marc's grand slam
a few games ago just said *wow* when he saw that hit!

Although I loved watching that little white object go
distance into space? What i loved even more? Was the
sound! I don't like aluminum bats, never have, much,
but part of that dislike was that they never sounded,
well, *solid*, like when you got good maple on a good
heater. You felt it, the pitcher and the crowd heard
it, and you *know* when you connect with wood. Tonight?
I heard aluminum connect! Marc just stroked it through
the middle of the plate and that bat made a sound almost
as good as solid wood. I've never heard aluminum sound
so solid and sweet...but my oh my, oh my...watching
that ball take flight? It just soared up, up, and away,
like was going into orbit or something, up there with
the stars.

Special time tonight seeing *that* hit, a real beauty.
Yeah, Marc we know when you knocked those out of
the park foul balls back to back we felt ur frustration.
You are just too quick and powerful for the pitcher,
ahead on every pitch.

Fun one to watch, after Marc's 3-run homerun and
fouling several out of the yard? Next time up, about
6th inning. NYIT totally avoiding the zone...painting
outside the lines on all four sides, can you blame 'em?
So Marc already has 3 balls and a strike, could have
taken that last pitch for a walk...i mean it was well
above the numbers, chin high. Impossibly, Marc
gets the bat on *top* of that thing and muscles it
in for a hit. Kid you not when that bat made contact
it was at eye level and Flores still managed to turn
that into a hit, he was having that good of a night.

But heck, pitchers from NYIT were almost too easy after
most of the teams 'Bows have been playing this season.

Bows won by a landslide, it was almost ugly the number
of hits and runs (close to 20) and NYIT had no runs all
night. Coop started, struck out more than 10, but the
long innings (Bows batting the rotation) had Matt's arm
going cold so but Eric Crease in for the relief/save.

But bats were hot for the 'Bows tonight, probably every
guy in the lineup had one or two. Trevor and Connor in
late, and LJ at 3rd looked good, fielding and hitting well.

Scoreboard? The videos are great, and pictures of each
player with hometown info and stuff when they are at
bat is a really nice upgrade. Only downside is that the
white LED's for hits/runs/errors, balls and strikes? They
are soo bright you can not tell what is what. The glare
from the LEDs makes it impossible to read painted stuff
on the board.

Case in point, with a few errors, a few outs, a few balls
and strikes? On the new 'board they are just a bunch of
bright numbers out there but can't tell which is which.

Problem is the scoreboard is not lit at all, and the LEDs
are *too* bright. Maybe paint the LED's orange or
something to knock the lumens in half, or paint the hits,
runs, errors headers in brighter/reflective paint. The
current combo just doesn't work after dark.

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