Baylor’s John Tipton throws a shutout in the first game of a doubleheader and wins 2-0, against Brentwood Academy.Having watched his team get shut out in a game that barely took an hour and a half, Brentwood Academy baseball coach Buddy Alexander decided patience was a virtue his team needed to learn quickly.
After Baylor’s John Tipton completed a four-hit masterpiece in a 2-0 win in the opener of the TSSAA Division II best-of-three quarterfinal series Friday, the second game was delayed for nearly two hours because of inclement weather in the area. The delay gave Alexander more time to work on his team’s new hitting approach, and it paid off as the Eagles earned a split, 4-0.
The deciding game will be played today at 1:30 at Baylor.
“We did take a lot different approach in that second game,” Alexander said. “We’re typically free swingers and we usually don’t put clamps on them, but we did some tonight and we might see that again tomorrow. That’s the first time we’ve taken that approach offensively against them, and it seems that, because we know each other so well, it’s like a chess match every time we play and it always comes down to one or two moments.”
Brentwood Academy (19-15), its patience on full display, made Baylor (20-11) game two starter Buddy Lindsay work hard early in the game, and though the Eagles left six runners on over the first three innings, the extra work eventually took its toll.