3’s are wild

Belhaven beat up on McKendree 7-1 at Smith-Wills Stadium today and did so with the help of three triples (plus some stout pitching by Brett Blaise). The Blazers, now 6-1, already have 10 triples as a team, but no one player has more than two. Smith-Wills is a big yard, but still … this is an amazing stat. The Blazers don’t appear to be a team of blazers, and yet BU has more triples than doubles (nine) or stolen bases (eight). And one of the team’s fastest players, Anthony Doss (DNP today with some kind of wrist injury), doesn’t even have a triple yet. Weird, wild stuff.
P.S. Here’s a weird, wild idea: What if the Mississippi Braves were to hold a Retro Night … at Smith-Wills? They could wear the old Jackson Generals uniforms, perhaps play the new Jackson Generals, the Southern League club in Tennessee. Or they could don Jackson Senators garb; the Braves once had a minor league club in Jackson that used the nickname before the independent team came along. Such a game would be well-attended. Absolutely. Of course, it’ll never happen. But it sure would be fun.