By ALEX SPONSELLER

The Warwick PAL Connie Mack baseball team is approaching its final regular season games and is gearing up for the playoffs that begin next week. PAL sat at 6-4 heading into the week with three makeup games remaining to be played.

PAL is made up of primarily Pilgrim and Toll Gate players. To this point, the team has boasted one of the league’s most talented and deep pitching rotations, with five arms that regularly get work.

“We lost a few guys from last year but picked up a few new guys and they’ve done a good job. We are an average offensive team, but we’re pretty good defensively and our pitching has been lights out,” said manager Ed Colvin, who returns for another season

Some of the team’s standout pitchers to this point have been returning ace Bobby Court, as well as Toll Gate ace Brayden Ogden. Filling out the rest of the rotation have been Devyn Robbins, Tyler Cote and Jack Colvin.

Although the pitching has been excellent to this point, the team’s offense is still trying to keep pace. Without many big bats in the middle of the lineup, PAL has been making the most of its speed and savvy on the basepaths.

“We don’t have a ton of power which was the expectation going into the season, but we have a lot of team speed and we steal a lot of bases. We can play small ball. We have been in a lot of close games and really only had one bad night,” said Ed Colvin.

With its full roster expected to be available to compete in next week’s postseason, PAL is looking to make a run at a title as the final pieces fall into place.

“The kids are ready to go. We should have everybody back in time for the playoffs, the standings are close so we do not know who will have, but we’re hoping to get home field,” said Ed Colvin.