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00:00Welcome to the
00:23Fast Pitch Stadium at the Space Coast Spring Games. I'm Victor Canales. I'm joined once again by the very lovely Silent Rain Espinosa.
00:30And I don't even get a chance to say much other than Whitney Waddell leads off with a ground out to the shortstop Scott over to Gearheart.
00:41Good play by the shortstop on that one.
00:43Yeah, we'll get caught up again here.
00:45Si's been joining us for the last two days and helping to enhance the event.
00:50We're bringing up number 18 Sadie Harding, the third baseman inside. Tell me a little bit about the fun you've had so far hanging out with these kids.
00:58Yes, I got to hang out a little bit yesterday with the Wildcats just feeling their energy in the dugout and you know their cheers were crazy.
01:09I had one of the seniors come and warn me and she was like, you might have to join in on this and give us some dance moves.
01:18I was like, I don't know if I can do that, girl.
01:21Well, you know, the one thing, and I was a former baseball player, but it's so cool and that's what I first had to get used to when I was coming over to softball.
01:34Yeah, well, the energy is so different and you see softball or baseball starting to adopt that now and it's just so much fun to be a part of this game.
01:43Yes, it is.
01:453-1 on Harding. Pitching for the Wolverines is Sydney Uhlenberg.
01:51We'll try and go through the whole lineup here shortly.
01:54We started off talking, me and Si, and unfortunately we weren't unmuted yet, so we were having a great conversation.
02:01Nobody wanted to hear.
02:04It's a bright, sunny day in Vieira, Florida, much brighter than where these two teams are from, Michigan and Indiana.
02:12Fouled off.
02:15You're a lefty too, right Si?
02:17Yes, I am. I'm a natural right-handed thrower, but I switched over to the left side when I was about 12 or 13.
02:29Never switched back.
02:32Strikeout for Uhlenberg.
02:35And that brings up the third hitter in the lineup, number 27, the catcher, Abby Harvey.
02:42That was a good spot on that outside corner by that pitcher.
02:46You know, as a hitter, I'm sure you watch everything and just go, OK, I'm sitting up here and I'm seeing spin.
02:54It was interesting to see as a baseball player.
02:57I'm used to the overhand curve, but you were telling, hey, if you can't see the top of the ball, it's a rise.
03:03That was just amazing to hear.
03:05Yeah, one of the girls, I think it was maybe the second or third team we went and visited with, but she asked me the same question.
03:14And I said, you know, try to see the top of the ball.
03:18And the girl was like, hey, that's what our coach says.
03:22The coach just shook his head because, oh.
03:26Line drive to Nightingale.
03:28Sometimes you got to hear it from a different source for it to, for it to hit home.
03:34You know, it's almost like when I talk to my kids and somebody else tells them, hey, you know, maybe if you did this, it'd be, we were doing that with financial advice with one of my sons, which is hilarious.
03:43I'm like, really?
03:45Yeah.
03:46All right, we're going to go to break into the first inning and it is 0-0.
03:52Be back after this message.
04:02There's something about a kid's imagination.
04:08Something out of this world.
04:10Something almost unreal.
04:14And once it takes the leap from make-believe to make it happen, anything is possible.
04:21Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
04:24Discover something real.
04:29I said it before and I'll say it again.
04:34Life moves pretty fast.
04:40You don't stop and look around once in a while.
04:44You could miss it.
04:55And we're back at the Space Coast Spring Games on the Fast Pitch Stadium with the University of Michigan Dearborn and the Indiana Wesleyan University Wildcats.
05:08Victor Canales here on the call.
05:10That was really cool.
05:12I hate to say that.
05:13I looked up and saw the outfielders do cartwheels.
05:16Did they really?
05:17It's so cool.
05:18You know, again, we were talking about how much fun it is to be a part of a fast pitch.
05:23Just the energy these kids bring is awesome.
05:26Didn't even get a chance to say anything.
05:28Grounded in the shortstop.
05:30Beating it out is going to be Olivia Scott.
05:34Good pick over there by the first baseman on that.
05:38Good first baseman with great infielders.
05:43We're going to call that error.
05:48On Waddell, but it gives a runner to the Dearborn Wolverines.
05:54Brings up the right fielder, number two, Braylon Grutter.
05:57You got to talk to Coach Babs a little bit during that whole time.
06:01He's a fun guy to talk to, isn't he?
06:03Yes, he is.
06:08Offered on.
06:09Yeah.
06:10OK, we'll get that right now.
06:12Offered on and we have an 0-2 count on Grutter.
06:20Reached on and fouled off.
06:22Starting in the circle for the Wildcats.
06:25Starting in the circle for the Wildcats is number two,
06:28Isabelle Beitel.
06:29She's and I may be killing that name,
06:32so I'm sure somebody text somebody eventually.
06:36I'll take the blame for that.
06:49Nice little slap hit and you know we talk about this
06:52and you can hear the energy in the stadium as these kids just
06:55don't get this type of opportunity to be on these games.
07:12Brings up the catcher, Ava Kraft.
07:14Ball outside on her in the first pitch.
07:23Did a good job.
07:28That brings up the designated
07:30player number one, Kendall Philip.
07:32You know we were going.
07:34I'll go back to it.
07:36I mean, you've played in front of the biggest crowds possible
07:39for softball.
07:40These kids don't get this type of opportunity.
07:42You can feel their energy going up.
07:44Just seeing the crowd, seeing the TV cameras.
07:49Yeah, you know, but.
07:52When you play in these environments,
07:55it's key to treat every game the same.
07:58You know you don't want to.
08:00Try to outperform yourself just because the stage seems bigger.
08:07Something I've learned in my career playing in the World
08:11Series as a freshman and then.
08:14Playing on the same stage as a fifth year senior.
08:18I I was able to approach it a little bit differently and more
08:21confidently by fifth year.
08:23Just realizing that it's it's the same game,
08:26just on a different field with a lot more people.
08:31Lot more cameras, lot more people,
08:33but it's the same game at the end of the day.
08:36Well, and you know that's a perspective.
08:38Not many people can share on it,
08:40and it's it's honestly it's you said something yesterday to a
08:44few people that I thought was just great,
08:46which is be where your feet are.
08:48Yeah, and that was a great.
08:52That was a great statement that you made to a multiple.
08:55That's going to score a run as a grounder.
09:00Brings in Olivia Scott and the Wolverines strike first blood.
09:06Yeah, when you get that lead off on.
09:09You know.
09:12Get him on, get him over, get him in is the old saying.
09:16Probably I know that because I'm old.
09:22No, but that run doesn't score if that.
09:25Third batter up doesn't move them so they did a good job
09:29there of playing basic softball.
09:32Well, and I think that's filed off.
09:34I think what you said again,
09:36going back to be where your feet are.
09:39But it's just amazing how many times if you go back through a
09:43game, whether it's a D1 DT,
09:45any I juke or any of those,
09:47it's always hey,
09:48do your fundamentals and you're going to win the game 99% of
09:52the time.
09:53Yeah, you know,
09:54doing your job at the plate instead of.
09:56Worrying about how can I hit this ball out the park?
10:00You know,
10:01looking at the situation and how many outs there are.
10:04Lindsay Marlow.
10:05It's with a base.
10:06It brings in Grutter.
10:08And Wolverines are up to zero in the bottom of the first.
10:15And this is an interesting matchup because the Wolverines
10:18have traditionally been a great team.
10:22In the WAC had a couple of off years here in the last couple,
10:25but Indiana Wesleyan is still and consistently a nationally
10:29ranked in the IAT.
10:31I know it was hard for you to see the other side of the
10:34team, but you know,
10:35tell me what does it feel like when you're a player and you
10:38know you're facing Goliath and you're David?
10:41Yeah, we try.
10:44You know,
10:45not to really worry too much about the opponent,
10:48but worry more about our game.
10:51And if we're,
10:52if we're playing,
10:53if we were playing Husky softball and,
10:56you know,
10:57looking at the game,
10:58you know,
10:59we're not going to be able to do that.
11:01Husky softball and you know,
11:03looking at the other team gets you,
11:05puts you in a position to try and control things that are out
11:09of your control.
11:12Hitting for the Wolverine ours.
11:16Kendall Gerhart,
11:17the first baseman 3-1 count on her.
11:23You know,
11:24and so here's another thing that you said yesterday that I
11:27thought was great.
11:28And that's how you obviously played on some of the biggest
11:30stages.
11:32That's going to be what a great catch.
11:37Liam May is the Indian.
11:38I guess we'll come back to that thought.
11:40Yes.
11:41Let's do a replay on that one.
11:44That was a great diving catch.
11:49Well,
11:50we're going to go to commercial as we go to the top of the
11:52second,
11:53the Michigan Dearborn Wolverines are up to nothing on the
11:55Wesleyan Wildcats.
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12:56We are back in the top of the second leading off for the
13:00Wildcats is Briley Bilger.
13:02The first baseman,
13:03silent rain,
13:04Espinosa,
13:05and Victor Canales on the call.
13:07Very happy to be here with you guys.
13:09And like I said,
13:10you're not going to get much more of an expert than silent
13:13rain.
13:14And yes,
13:15I'm,
13:16I'm playing up her credentials,
13:17but she is actually,
13:18as having been an umpire for her and seeing her move up to
13:21the top,
13:22She is a great,
13:23great source of knowledge.
13:24Again,
13:25it was just awesome today to see you or yesterday to see you
13:28talking with all these players and then pulling knowledge from
13:31you.
13:32It's really a great contribution to the game.
13:34Yeah.
13:35They were asking me some tough questions yesterday.
13:37He takes that pitch inside on the corner.
13:39Two and one.
13:40He's got it.
13:41He's got it.
13:42He's got it.
13:43He's got it.
13:44He's got it.
13:45He's got it.
13:46He's got it.
13:47He's got it.
13:48He's got it.
13:49He's got it.
13:50He's got it.
13:52He's got it.
13:53He's got it.
13:54He's got it.
13:55He's got it.
13:56He's got it.
13:57He's got it.
13:58He's got it.
13:59He's got it.
14:00He's got it.
14:01The Wildcats,
14:02I believe are ranked in the top 15.
14:04Possibly the top 10 of any.
14:05I got around on that one.
14:06You know,
14:08it was fun.
14:09I don't know if you saw that as we came from commercials.
14:11We'll reach.
14:12We're ready to go.
14:13And we were still at commercial break.
14:15They started the grip.
14:16What do we do now?
14:17Popped up shortstop settling underneath it.
14:24That Scott gets the out.
14:28Brings up the center fielder
14:30Courtney Thomas for the Wildcats.
14:35You know what's funny as well,
14:37so I don't. I don't know if you see it,
14:39but some of the kids keep looking
14:41up at the replay up on the screen.
14:44That's us.
14:48Pitches outside ball one.
14:52This is one of the many different
14:55games that we have going on here.
14:58It's basically spring games.
14:59130 hundred and 60 teams depending
15:02on on the count of the JV's.
15:05And it's called for a strike on the corner.
15:10You know, I I bet you every single
15:12one of them is enjoying the weather
15:14with the possible exception of the
15:16number of schools who weren't used to
15:18the cold that we've had over the last
15:20couple of days. I know a lot of the
15:23teams that I've talked to are from
15:25Michigan area or else where they say.
15:28But yeah, it's freezing where we are right now.
15:31Well, it was really funny is the Minnesota teams.
15:35There was a Minnesota team got in late
15:37last night was supposed to play at
15:3910 in the morning yesterday.
15:41And they said, hey, we're snowed in.
15:44Oh wow, and they finally got here.
15:48When they did get here,
15:50they were wearing short sleeves.
15:51Everybody else was bundled up.
15:54Fouled off strike three on Thomas
15:58Uhlenberg collects her second
16:01strikeout of the game.
16:04The 6th hitter right fielder Ella Phillips.
16:14And that one's popped.
16:16Looks like second baseman
16:18Nightingale pulls it in.
16:23A 123 inning and we go to the
16:26bottom of the second Dearborn
16:28leads two to nothing.
17:14Is that good? Welcome back to the fast pitch there.
17:36Did you see the cartwheels in centerfield?
17:38No, I keep I'm watching the infielder.
17:41Spoken like a true infielder.
17:43Silent rain Espinosa.
17:45OK, next thing wildcats come out.
17:47We need to focus on those
17:49centerfielders or the outfielders,
17:51but leading off the top of the second
17:54is first baseman Kendall or excuse me.
17:56Second baseman Maya Knight Mia Nightingale.
17:59Her family reminded me last night
18:01that I pronounced her name wrong.
18:04She's been coming down here for
18:06three years and for three years
18:08I have pronounced it incorrectly.
18:12Me 1000 off swings at one.
18:15She is down knowing too.
18:19And rather than murder her name,
18:21I'm going to continue to call her
18:22Isabel on the pitching rubber.
18:30I don't know. I've done that a couple times.
18:33Will you call the ball so
18:35confidently that it goes out,
18:36but you've played on this field as a player,
18:39and it's a little bit different.
18:42My first professional game was on this field.
18:45It was the first time I had played on.
18:49On all AstroTurf.
18:52You know it's crazy to me,
18:54but it'll get the Isabel gets the backwards K.
18:58I'm bringing up left fielder Mackenzie Shelton.
19:01It's interesting to me how different the
19:04turf game plays over the natural field
19:06plays a lot quicker, especially on the
19:10on the infield.
19:13That second hop tends to get.
19:15Pretty slick.
19:20Shelton steps in fouls went
19:23off one and one to count.
19:28Indiana Wesley wearing the all red.
19:31Wolverines in the home whites
19:33with the blue and yellow.
19:36Glad to have you with us if you are.
19:39Joining us online live grounded too.
19:41I'm going to try it again.
19:43Vital she's beetle. She's.
19:48A little bit silent rain.
19:50Yeah, I'm not gonna.
19:54Well, either way, she gets
19:55her second out of the inning.
19:56I think you butchered it, you know.
20:01We're here to enjoy the day exactly.
20:05And stepping in his wheel brand.
20:11Files the first one off.
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20:43Two in one to count.
20:47That's outside.
20:51And you know, so we talk about this.
20:54How the Pro League is is playing
20:57and bringing kids in and.
20:59No.
21:01Bill Brandt draws the walk.
21:05How hard is it for you to?
21:07I mean, people think it's easy.
21:09You become a pro athlete.
21:10Suddenly money starts coming in left and right,
21:12but you know, just finding out how to get that.
21:16Is it been difficult for you
21:17to navigate through that?
21:18Yeah, you know, professional softball
21:21isn't on the level that we want,
21:25or that it should be yet.
21:26But you know, just working on growing
21:29the game one step at a time and.
21:32Being in these spaces and just
21:34creating more.
21:38It's not that picture.
21:40Scott grounds out the vital she's
21:43and we are in the top of the third.
21:45The Wolverines leave three to zero.
21:48Great snag as you can see on the play.
21:53Calmly and coolly puts it over.
21:54Will be back for the top of the third.
21:57Michigan Dearborn to Indiana Wesleyan 0.
22:05No.
22:23I used to wait.
22:30It's a bit.
22:32Yeah, yeah, yeah.
22:40I'm a.
22:52Right?
23:02We're back in the top of the third.
23:05Left fielder number 13 Milani Clemens
23:08for the Wesleyan Wildcats.
23:11So far, Uhlenberg is holding him.
23:15Right where she wants him.
23:23So I know sometimes you get to play the
23:25the Michigan Wolverines in a World Series.
23:28Didn't you? I feel like you did.
23:31No, we played them in a super regional.
23:35Super regional game and we played
23:37him a lot in preseason games.
23:40Would play them at law at the
23:43Judy Garman tournament at Cal State Fullerton.
23:49Silent rain Espinosa former Washington Husky.
23:53I believe now she she can no longer say
23:56she's a Pac 12 fan. I mean she can,
23:58but there's nobody in it.
24:01Yes, I'm now a big big 10 big 377.
24:07Exactly. I was I was actually trying to.
24:12I was actually trying to figure out who
24:14all is in what conference anymore.
24:16I don't even know anymore.
24:17It looks like that one meme where the
24:20strings are going to everybody.
24:22Every which direction.
24:25Fouled off.
24:26Oh, and two still yeah I went and
24:29watched Washington play in the Palm
24:32Springs tournament in the Mary Nutter
24:34and they had the big 10 patches on
24:38their jerseys and it just looked weird to me.
24:42Called strike three on the inside
24:44corner in Uelenburg has picked,
24:46collected her third strikeout of the game.
24:48And so I I don't think I am incorrect when I say.
24:58They're leveling up based on what's going on.
25:04Washington or he? I'm sorry,
25:07the two teams that are playing yes.
25:13Big game, big stage, big player,
25:16big game. Is that what we say?
25:19I usually just I usually
25:20just go up and strike out.
25:24That's not a good mindset to have.
25:26Well, I'm just saying I'm at 50 now.
25:28I mean if I'm playing a 22 year old,
25:30he's going to be.
25:33This running stuff is for the birds.
25:42So many fans here today.
25:45Just outside one and two.
25:48Bad. Well, and you know if you're
25:51going to be a parent of a college kid
25:53and you know that hey,
25:54we get one week to go down to Florida
25:56and leave Indiana and Michigan,
25:57you're probably taking it for sure.
26:03Line drive by Veltman.
26:06Caught by the second baseman Nightingale.
26:10We have two outs.
26:13In the top of the third,
26:15Leah made the second baseman.
26:17Outcomes to the plate.
26:22Stretched out. I think
26:23that was in the second inning.
26:30Never fails. Never fails the great
26:34play on defense follow up by a hit.
26:39And in the third inning,
26:40the Wolverine or the Wildcats
26:42finally get a runner on brings
26:44him back to the top with Waddell.
26:47She's old for one on the day.
27:01The sign of the delivery just a bit outside.
27:07You know, it's also interesting.
27:08I don't know how much is bothers people,
27:11but I know from here I can see all
27:13the sun glinting off of all the
27:15windshields in the outfield.
27:18It's a bright one today to use.
27:24We needed that yesterday you were
27:26wearing two or three layers and I was
27:29freezing it was the wind the wind was.
27:32Pretty early yesterday.
27:35And that's how I know size from California.
27:37I haven't heard the word gnarly
27:39in a very long time.
27:41Breaking for second throws into
27:43the outfield just a little wide,
27:45but Mays not going any further than that.
27:50Good job getting in a scoring
27:51position there with two outs.
27:57Looks like she would have
27:58handily beat the throw anyway.
28:16Watch it away, kid. Here we go with mine.
28:21Yeah, wait.
28:38Back here three and two.
28:40We're still with Waddell.
28:46That pitch is just inside draws the walk.
28:56We're on 1st and 2nd.
29:02And that brings up third baseman
29:04Sadie Harding. She struck out
29:06in the in the first inning.
29:11You and Berga trying to keep.
29:16Trying to keep the Wildcats
29:18from drawing any blood on her.
29:23It's quite the commotion side.
29:24We got a lot of stuff going on.
29:26It's almost like we have nine
29:28fields going at one time.
29:29Crazy.
29:38Might be a good time to go
29:40out and say hi to her.
29:42Settle down, get yourself in there.
29:44Yeah, I think the key thing for
29:46number 18 right now is just trying
29:48to keep this little rally they have
29:50going not trying to do too much.
29:56That's we had some nasty intentions on it.
30:03One in two and Harding 2 outs.
30:05Runners on 1st and 2nd.
30:10Trying to get the Wildcats on the board.
30:15The Eulenberg with the strikeout ends
30:17the threat and brings in the Wildcats
30:20or the Wolverines as they lead to
30:22nothing going into the bottom of the 3rd.
30:25Will be back after these commercials.
30:36There's something about a kid's imagination.
30:41Something out of this world.
30:44Something almost. Unreal.
30:48And once it takes the leap from
30:50make believe to make it happen.
30:52Anything is possible.
30:54Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.
30:57Discover something real.
31:02I said it before and I'll say it again.
31:07Life moves pretty fast.
31:09You don't stop and look around once in awhile.
31:19You could miss it.
31:29And we're back at the fast pitch
31:31stadium in the Space Coast Spring
31:34Games of the campus of USSS
31:36National Headquarters.
31:38Silent rain. There you see it.
31:40Yes, now we saw the cartwheels.
31:502 nothing heading into the bottom of the.