From the dugout, Brent Honeywell felt confident his team was going to win Game 1 of the Florida State League Championship.
He watched teammate Chih-Wei Hu spin an eight-inning shutout, a career performance, that when all was said and done, gave the Charlotte Stone Crabs a 1-0 win over the Daytona Tortugas to open the best-of-five series.
"He was in attack mode all night," Honeywell said of Hu after Thursday's game. "I told Doc that run could be the winner, and it was."
"Doc" is Steve ‘Doc' Watson, the Stone Crabs pitching coach, who Honeywell credits for much of his progress this season, on the mound and off.