{"id":10381,"date":"2016-05-28T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baseballontheisland.com\/?p=10381"},"modified":"2016-10-13T02:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T02:26:33","slug":"jimmy-joyce-does-it-with-the-bat-and-on-the-hill-in-wantaghs-game-one-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.axcessbaseball.com\/2016\/05\/28\/jimmy-joyce-does-it-with-the-bat-and-on-the-hill-in-wantaghs-game-one-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Joyce Does It With The Bat and On the Hill In Wantagh’s Game One Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Vinny Messana<\/strong><\/p>\n

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As Wantagh’s Head Coach Keith Sachs<\/strong> noted “this ain’t the pros,” so when his ace, Jimmy Joyce<\/strong>, is struggling with his command during the seventh inning of Game One of the Nassau County Class A Finals, you let him figure it out.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t find the strike zone,” said Joyce, who experienced a brief bout with Steve Blass Disease after retiring the first two hitters in the seventh inning–one out away from a CG shutout of Bellmore JFK.<\/strong><\/p>\n