![]() ![]() Like many domains of communication, the milestones related to following directions are geared towards younger children: These areas were reviewed in further depth in a previous post on following simple directions - a lot of that info applies here, too!Ĭomplex instructions are relevant for students across the grade-span. If that’s the case for you and your students, you’re not alone! There are plenty of factors that influence the ability to follow complex directions: hearing/vision, executive function skills, language comprehension, grammar, student level of interest, task complexity, and sequencing, just to name a few. But each individual failure has consequences, and tonight’s was another loss that will sting long past the next victory, whenever it may come.This is a guest blog post by Holly, a school-based SLP, all about teaching how to follow 2 and 3-step sequential directions! Teaching Sequential Directionsĭo you have students on your caseload that can follow one-step directions pretty well, but–as soon as the complexity increases–that accuracy goes out the window? As we hover just before the midway point this year, they sit at just two in 2023, with a 4-8 line in extras that is no more indicative of true quality than the variances, the walk-off walks, errors, and wild pitches of the past two seasons, or the ill-placed line drives of this evening’s earlier innings are of a greater trend. A year before, they had 10 walk offs and were 14-7 in extras. Seattle had 13 walk-off wins last year and went 11-5 in extras. Seasons where the Mariners have pulled off games like this, been the ones screaming and dancing past the dumbstruck faces of a slack-jawed opponent who cannot reconcile the outcome they’ve just witnessed. And yet, as the M’s dropped their big leagues-leading 8th extra innings loss, it’s hard not to think back to last year, and the year prior. By the time Trevor Gott allowed a walk and a pair of perfectly-placed grounders through to push the game out of reach, it hardly felt fair to expect more of the bullpen yet again. ![]() Crawford, Julio Rodríguez, whose high-leverage plate appearances have been under some scrutiny, worked a four-pitch walk without chasing multiple sliders, aided by a pitch clock violation. His stuff is still potent, to be sure, but he has not been effective due to shaky command and a limited repertoire. That meant Jordan Weems, who despite a solid ERA in small sample work, has bounced across three big league clubs in the past several years as a replacement level arm. The bottom of the 10th against an atrocious Nationals bullpen that had already used most of its best healthy relievers en masse this evening and the night prior. Two shutout frames, first from Andrés Muñoz in the 9th and then Justin Topa in the 10th, presented the M’s with a gift. ![]() But Paul Sewald got a slider scooped into the right field seats by contact maven Keibert Ruiz, and Seattle could not scratch across runners late, forcing them to extras. That lead kept creeping up despite multiple incursions from the Nats, up to 3-1 and then, on a replay review of a Jarred Kelenic slide into home, 4-3. The evening was full of scraps with the moribund Nationals, including some feistiness between Cal Raleigh and Washington Nationals infielder Jeimer Candelario, who was doing an ‘Airplane!’ level routine attempting to (legally!) pass along where Raleigh was setting up while on second base. It was not for lack of care or effort that Seattle found themselves on the losing end this evening. Still, on the day that Chris Flexen was designated for assignment, it was once again the offense who shoulders responsibility for this missed chance to scrabble back to. All the same, it was a massive letdown to squander another solid outing from Bryan Woo, the promising rookie who was approximately 10th on the rotation depth chart at the outset of the season. To me, that is still the Easton McGee game, or perhaps the catastrophic Cubs meltdown in Wrigley. Tuesday night’s 7-4 loss was not, at least from my vantage point in First Hill, the worst of the year. In front of a rowdy (especially for a Tuesday night) crowd of 22,671, the night following a raucous, energizing comeback win, the Mariners once again managed to grab the balloon given to them by a teetering opponent and squeeze the air out of it, deflating their fans, their shot at winning, and their dwindling path past the rest of the American League. Half a mile from the space where one of their sporting neighbors has become famous for generating false starts, the 2023 Seattle Mariners are challenging for the title. ![]()
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