Coming off back-to-back losses, the Berlin baseball coaching staff remains optimistic about the remainder of the schedule.
“We dropped a couple of games this week that maybe we should have won,” said Dan Mackin. “When you give up just one hit in six innings, you expect to win any ballgame and that was the case Thursday in Littleton. However, when the one hit you give up is a grand slam, and you only get two hits offensively, it is pretty easy to see how that game can be lost.
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