SAN DIEGO – "Listen up," David Wells says, and the players pull in tighter. It is crunch time in the high school baseball season, another practice about to begin, the state tournament just up ahead and mistakes to correct, fast.
The head coach looks at his boys, his boys look back at him, and right here along the third-base line another afternoon of teaching begins. In yesterday's loss, Wells saw some let up and tentativeness that he is not happy with. Twenty-one outs, he tells the boys. You've got to go hard for every one of them.