The Raiders enter the season with some unknowns.
The question was posed to Watertown High baseball coach Joe Chiodo several times over the long winter months – How’s the team looking? And each time he had to answer with a laugh, “I don’t know.” Those are the problems a coach faces when he loses his top two starting pitchers from a team that made it to the tournament before bowing out in extra innings to Saugus in the first round. This season, Chiodo will be looking for the solution to the problem, and instead of getting production from one or two guys to fill the voids, he might have to a committee or small army to do so. “We have good athletes on the field, but I think on the mound we have to find out who is going to step up and throw strikes and give our defense a chance to perform,” …
The Raiders will not be able to use it normal home diamond at Victory Field because of the renovation to the complex. WHS's football team will also be affected.
Dorothy’s famous phrase from “The Wizard of Oz” was “There’s no place like home,” but this season the Watertown baseball team’s home schedule will be more like a whirlwind because the Raiders will be on the road even when they are at “home.” The team has been displaced from Victory Field due to the renovation of the athletic complex on Orchard Street, said Athletic Director Michael Lahiff. Friday, the Raiders take on Reading in a matchup scheduled to be in Watertown. Due to the unavailability of the field, however, Watertown will be playing the Rockets up in Reading. The renovation will also displace the WHS football team during the first part of th season, Lahiff said. The field will not be ready for the first two home games in September…
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