Struggles Continue For Redwings Baseball

Errors continue to plague the HHS varsity baseball squad, costing them the win in the final home game of the 2010 regular season. Bayonne High School took the 9-3 win as Hoboken stands at 6-15 on the season with one game remaining.

"This is game number 21," Coach Buddy Matthews said, "It's not the time to be making errors. We're way past that point in the season."

Bayonne scored two in the first, on an error and two singles.

Hoboken struggled on the bases in the bottom half of the inning. "We missed a sign, and got picked-off," Matthews said, "You can't have that. You can't be missing signs."

Bayonne doubled their lead in the second, going ahead 4-0 on an error in left, and three successive singles. Mike Santana knocked in the RBI. Starting pitcher Hipolito Aldea walked two with two outs for the second run.

The lead grew to 6-0 before Hoboken finally got on the board in the bottom of the third inning. With one out, Duke McCourt reached with a base hit to right. Following an out, Sal Pagan walked and Travis Haber reached on an error to load the bases. A patient Anthony Richards earned an RBI walk. 

Luis Morales had the only RBI hit of the day, bringing in Pagan and Haber with a two-out single. Hoboken trailed 6-3.

The lead didn't last long, as Bayonne took back all three in the top of the fourth. They held off Hoboken for the rest of the game to secure the 9-3 win.

"At this point in the season," Matthews said, "It's a matter of how badly we want it. And yesterday, we didn't want it badly enough."