Pitcher of the Week - Week Four - Chuck Boring - Southern Ohio Copperheads

You have to have a certain mentality to want the ball when the game is on the line. Not all pitchers can handle the stress because closers can make or break a game. That is why Chuck Boring, a closing pitcher for the Southern Ohio Copperheads, has been chosen at the Pitcher of the Week for the week of July 2 to July 8 of the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League, a wood bat baseball league for college athletes. He has “made” several games for the Copperheads.

“His role as a closer is important. He has a good mindset late in the game. He wants the ball to finish the game,” say head coach, Mike Deegan.

Boring himself seems to enjoy the down time that being a reliever gives him.

“I pretty much just sit around. I don’t even get my cleats on until the seventh and then I start warming up,” says the freshman from The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown.

But when he does get his chance on the mound, the wait was worth it, for the team and for Boring.

“He has good stuff,” Coach Deegan states. “His fastball is running around 90mph and he has good movement on it.”

Boring concurs, saying that his fastball is what gets him through those last two inning of any game. The six saves credited to him, not to mention the 0.00 ERA, can certainly attest to the fact that whatever he’s throwing, his opponents can’t hit it.

And that’s just the way Boring likes it.

“[As a closer,] you can burn out and throw the best pitch you can every time as hard as you can,” he says of his strategy.

As the season goes on, the skill of the closer can only become more apparent, and Chuck Boring already has a head start.

Apparently no team can take the heat of Boring’s fastball blazing by them.