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Bay Sox Fall 13-2 to Red-Hot Sharks

July 9, 2019 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
New Bedford Bay Sox News Release


It's safe to say that the New Bedford Bay Sox have seen enough of the Martha's Vineyard Sharks, as the road team won for the third time in a week at Paul Walsh Field on Tuesday night.

Martha's Vineyard (16-9) put up nine runs in the first two innings on Tuesday en route to a 13-2 victory over the Bay Sox which moved their winning streak to eight games. The Sharks also won 4-2 in 10 innings last Tuesday and 13-6 last Friday, as a scheduling anomaly put Vineyard in New Bedford for three games in the span of seven days. Sharks' starter Izaiya Mester was terrific in the victory, tossing six scoreless innings with five Ks, four hits, and no walks allowed as he stymied New Bedford's offense all night long. Jack Winkler (San Francisco) and Bryan Hart (Bryant) picked up RBI hits in the last two innings, as the Bay Sox fell to 6-19 on the season. Alex Brickman (Dayton) had two hits, while Logan Maitland (UMass Dartmouth) and Nicholas Couhig (Boston College) shut down a powerful Sharks lineup who pounded 13 hits and put two balls out of the park.

The Sharks took advantage of some early wildness from Bay Sox starter Tylor Arruda (UMass Boston) to strike for three runs in the top of the first inning. Arruda walked the first two batters he faced, and a hit-by-pitch loaded the bases with no outs. Cleanup hitter Nicholas Raposo blooped a single into the Bermuda Triangle in left-center field to score one run, with a grounder to second and a sac fly to left plating the second and third runs of the frantic first inning.

The troubles for Arruda continued in the second inning, as Michael Knell launched a no-doubter to left field just one pitch after a fly ball was dropped in foul ground by catcher Zach Buck (Holy Cross). A single and a walk put two runners on base for Matt Chamberlain, who deposited his third homer of the season over the fence in right-center field to make it 7-0 and end Arruda's outing.

Corey Cater (Trinity) came on with one down in the second, and struggled on the mound as well, allowing two more runs on two hits and a costly error at second base by Hart, as the Sharks continued to produce huge innings. Martha's Vineyard had scored 58 runs during their seven straight wins prior to Tuesday night, and have plated five runs or more in 17 of their 25 games this season.

After a scoreless third inning, the visitors scored two more times in the fourth, with Alan Burnsed driving in both runs with an RBI single to left field. Maitland entered in the fifth, and after retiring the first two batters that he faced, the junior from Tiverton, RI loaded the bases on a single and two free passes. Maitland got out of the jam with a fly ball to right field, and he stranded two more runners in a scoreless sixth with a similar flyout to Tommy Seidl (Harvard) in right.

Maitland worked the Bay Sox' first 1-2-3 inning in the seventh, and was replaced in the eighth by Christian Rosati (Southeastern). Rosati hit a batter and struck out consecutive Sharks, but the relentless Martha's Vineyard offense didn't let up, with a walk and a two-run double by Kai Nelson put runs 12 and 13 on the board.

Thomas Blandini (Southern New Hampshire) began the bottom of the eighth with a base hit to left, as his fly ball eluded the Sharks' shortstop, third baseman, and left fielder. Blandini stretched it into a double, and the throw from Burnsed was wild, putting the first Bay Sox runner at third base on the evening. Winkler followed with a triple down the right field line for his sixth RBI of the year, preventing the Bay Sox from suffering their third shutout and first at Paul Walsh Field this season.

Couhig came in for the ninth and retired the Sharks in order, with Hart making a leaping catch at second base for the final out. Rafe Chaumette (Trinity) reached on an infield single to start the bottom of the frame, and after Sharks' closer Nathan Tellier whiffed Seidl and Buck, Hart followed with an RBI single to cap the scoring on a sticky night in New Bedford.

The Bay Sox will rest on Wednesday before getting back into the swing of things before hosting the Mystic Schooners on Thursday evening.

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