“That’s probably the best thing so far about this team. The mass departure after the all-star break has taken its toll, but the team is still blessed with a never-day-die attitude, said Thunder Bay starter Karson Shepherd, who had to be pulled after three innings, exceeding the 35-pitch league limit in a four-run third. You look at our guys and you look at their guys and you look at the names of the programs some of these guys are coming from … and that’s no knock on these programs.” I think we’re lying to ourselves if we say we should be in these games.

Obviously you want to win games, and everybody in Thunder Bay wants to win ballgames, but at this point, we’ve just got to try our best in every single game,” Kelly said.

“These guys are getting an experience that they never would have gotten before in their life. Left with a cast of characters trying to cram a summer’s worth of baseball learning into a handful of opportunities as the 2023 Northwoods League season winds down, on occasion, like Saturday’s 7-6 over the playoff hungry Waterloo Bucks, good things happen.Īlmost nothing went right for the Border Cats, who were trounced 19-5, narrowly missing out on surrendering 20 runs in a game for the second time this season. Kelly isn’t pulling any punches about his team’s chances down the stretch.

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