Rested Development
I asked Matt Ceriani after batting practice if the team had yet taken its near-traditional visit to The Block -- a popular outdoor mall in Orange about 15 minutes from the Outlaws' road headquarters in Fullerton.
"If the mall was in my bedroom, I was there," he said. "It was all sleep today. TV on, sun coming through the curtains a little bit, it was perfect."
Because Monday morning the team bus didn't arrive until 10 a.m., six hours before the trip to Goodwin Stadium for the series opener, today was the first full day to catch up. Second baseman Jesse Kovacs said after last night's loss travel nights ahead of road openers are usually a factor.
"Guys are human, they're on the bus sleeping off and on all the whole way, never really getting comfortable sleep before the game," he said. "You're not as fresh as you are on most nights."