Errors costly as Tuatara fall at home

The Auckland Tuatara dropped the first game of their four-game series against the Canberra Cavalry 6-2 at McLeod Park yesterday.

The home side made a couple of crucial errors in the field and didn’t have the success with the bats they had the previous two weekends in the Australian Baseball League.

Starter Jimmy Boyce worked hard to get through six innings but didn’t get the run support or fielding support he needed to get the win. A fourrun fourth inning on the back of a couple of mistakes proved pivotal.

The loss means the expansion franchise falls to a 2-6 record with three more games against the Cavalry scheduled across the weekend.

“We have to catch the ball,” said head manager Steve Mintz. “You can’t win ball games if you keep making errors. It was the same in the first week. We didn’t make errors last weekend and we won ball games. Jimmy pitched well and should have only given up a single run. That should’ve been a 3-2 ballgame or so.”

Kiwi teenage prospect Kyle Glogoski is set to pitch the first game of today’s double-header and carries a two game scoreless streak into the weekend.