Eureka Post 177 Baseball

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Players of the Game 🏆
YBM Legion Summer Series
Presented by Kilogear!
Eureka Post 177 opens the summer in style, earning a 5-0 victory over Kirkwood Post 156.
Jack Baker & Cade Gustafson (P) | Combined 8 K
The Eureka pitching duo set the tone from the first pitch, teaming up for a shutout performance.

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⭐Player of the Week!
Camren Mahler
St. Peters Post 313 | FZN HS | UMSL Commit
Weekend vs. Hannibal Post 55:
2-for-5, 1 double, 2 home runs, 6 RBI, 4 runs scored and 3 walks.
A huge offensive performance earns Mahler this week's MOALB Player of the Week honor!
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Eureka Freshman win 7-1

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Eureka Legion Post 177 14U were triumphant over Gamers Baseball 14 Blue 7-4 on Wednesday

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The 156 is back! Your 19u MO State Finalists open @MOLegionBall against @Post177Baseball 5:30pm game time at Kirkwood HS with Bliss Food Truck on the scene. Can’t be there? Watch it in @YBM_cast

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Gavin Czarnecki leads Eureka 177 past Elsberry.

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The Scouting Classroom #15

WHAT SCOUTS WATCH IN BATTING PRACTICE

One of the biggest misconceptions in baseball is what people think scouts are watching during batting practice.

Fans watch where the ball lands.

Scouts watch how it gets there.

Anybody can get fooled by one loud round.

One long home run.
One ball hit over the scoreboard.

One swing that gets people talking.

But scouting has never been about chasing highlights.

It’s about identifying repeatable ingredients.

Because batting practice gives scouts something valuable:

A controlled environment.
No velocity.
No breaking balls.
No two-strike count.
No game pressure.
Just the hitter and the swing.

And when you remove the variables, the swing starts telling a story.

Scouts begin asking questions:

Is there rhythm?
Is there balance?
Is there bat speed?
Is the barrel accurate?
Does the ball jump differently?
Can the hitter create easy carry?
Is the swing efficient?
Can he repeat it?
Does he stay through the middle of the field?
Can he backspin the baseball?
Can he manipulate the barrel?
Does the body actually work?

Those things matter.

Because tools show themselves before production does.

You can hit a long BP home run and fool people.

I've seen players put on unbelievable batting practice shows and completely fall apart once the game started.

And I’ve also seen future big leaguers take quiet rounds where the average fan saw nothing special.

But scouts noticed. Why?

Because the ingredients were there.

The rhythm.
The bat speed.
The timing.
The barrel accuracy.
The ease of operation.
The body control.
The foundation.

Good scouts learn to separate results from ingredients.

Because distance is easy to see.

The swing underneath it takes experience.

The swing tells you a story long before the stat line ever does.

That’s Scouting 

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Eureka Legion Post 177 15U Take Lead And Never Look Back In Win Over New Haven Legion

[Jermaine Curtis @JermaineCurtis]

When I was in pro baseball, I started making a lot of weak contact.

Weak fly balls.
Weak ground balls.
Jammed contact.

Honestly…
I felt like if I didn’t figure it out, I was going to get released.

Then I remembered what Barry Bonds told me:

“If you’re making weak contact, your top hand probably isn’t working TO and THROUGH the baseball correctly.”

He explained that the top hand helps create the barrel path through the zone.

So every day, I practiced 3 things:

1. Top-hand-only tee swings trying to drive the ball to center field and the opposite-field gap

2. Split-grip soft toss working through the middle of the field
(2–3 inch gap between the hands)

3. Regular BP trying to hit line drives gap-to-gap with the thought of “catching” the ball with the top hand

That’s when I started squaring baseballs up and driving line drives with authority again.

Thank you for reading,
Jermaine Curtis

P.s. - Try this if you’re making weak contact and let me know how it works for you, by posting a video below.

P.s.s - And if you found this valuable, share it with another hitter.

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Eureka Vs Kirkwood • Opening Day. May 22 Ronsick Park • 1st Pitch 8:30pm. Follow on Gamechanger https://t.co/O7tcPvfEGf

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Eureka Wildcats are Moving on after a 1-0 win over the Rolla Bulldogs. Winning Pitcher John Haberkorn 7IP , 3 Hits, 0 Runs, 5 ks. Cole Rogers, Levi Fieser, Tyler Sweeney and AJ Scott each had a hit for Eureka. Eureka plays the winner of the Lafayette vs Marquette game.

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The landscape in college baseball is changing. With the 34-player limit, Division I schools are turning more to junior college players for immediate impact. And no school embodies that more than Kansas. Free at ESPN: How juco turned KU into a powerhouse. https://t.co/lT0Kdy7OmR

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SEMO Baseball Camp June Prospect Camp
When: June 15th 9:00am 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Where: Capaha Field – 627 Capaha Drive, Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
Who: This camp is open to any and all High School baseball players. Cost: $175 https://t.co/rbkNG03aQq

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Eureka 177 14U team off to a 9-3 start. Follow on GC. @legionbaseball @MOLegionBall https://t.co/bbtV3uEgUR

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