There are no easy wins this early in the season.

But, that being said, some are certainly easier than others.

The Bainbridge High varsity baseball team seemingly breezed through to a 8-0 shutout win over the visitors from Ingraham Monday, a win which many in attendance felt should have ended in the fifth.

It almost did. A 10-0 lead in the fifth would have brought the game to an end via the mercy rule, and Bainbridge was poised to put the ordeal down faster than a horse with four broken legs.

But, with three Spartans on base and a 7-0 lead, a lazily lobbed pop fly became the third out — and doomed the contest to go the full seven innings.

Not that the extra time on the field had any effect on the board, however. The Bainbridge squad stayed ahead and untouched, with the win at home earning for them a 5-3 overall season record (4-2 in conference) and the eighth spot in the Metro standings.

Roosevelt High boasts the top spot in the league with a conference record of 7-1.

Spartan Head Coach Simon Pollack said that the team was playing better together and hitting its stride now, though some tweaking remained undone.

“[They’re] still at times taking some ill-advised cuts,” he said. “Not ill-advised cuts, just poor hacks. Pulling their head out a little bit and not being quite disciplined at the plate.

“Certainly I think if you give us pitches to hit, we’re going to hit them now,” he added.

The shutout win against Ingraham was the Spartans’ fourth win in a row. The team’s early season stumbling — three straight losses, including a disheartening 10-0 defeat at Garfield after winning the first game of the year — seems further and further away, Pollack said.

“I think, like I told the guys, people understand now that 10-0 at Garfield was something that’s probably not going to happen again,” he said. “Obviously we played competitive with Eastside [and] probably should have taken that O’Dea game. It’s my opinion we should have taken that O’Dea game and gotten on our streak a little earlier than we did last week.”

Pollack cited Matt Spence, Evan Ferguson and Nate Boegl as particular standouts in the Ingraham game, and though the Rams didn’t put the ball into play a lot, he added, the team as a whole was coming together nicely in the field.

“They’re getting much more comfortable out there on the field and seeing balls off the bat,” he said.

On the other side of things, Pollack said that at this point in the season consistency at the plate remained his top coaching concern.

“Some of my big dogs need to be a little bit more disciplined at the plate,” he explained. “They’re taking good cuts, but they’re floating to the baseball a bit and they’re just really excited to hit and they have big powerful swings. But they need to know they don’t need to be — all of their momentum doesn’t need to be moving forward to hit it hard.”