I'm fortunate enough where I still get to do the things that I've done for Little League for 30 years and that's coach third base and call pitches. I get a lot of input from Dante and Mike.

It just hurt the momentum for us. I think if we're up 3-2, we'd have the lead and then see how they'd respond. It has an affect on everything.

For him not to come out and look at it, he has no base calls to make.

They have many dangerous hitters. Most teams have two hitters that you really worry about. With them you have to be very smart about how you pitch to every one.

That team was playing for (Ryan) Hartley.

I was hoping, and it wasn't. I've had Max for three years on my team. He's a special little guy. He was just so excited about it.

We needed that momentum to make them come after us.