Mainers fire shots across the bow of the Schooners in a 5-to-4 victory
July 9, 2014 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
Sanford Mainers News Release
The Mainers (16-8) are on quite a hot-streak, winners of their last 8 and have continued to lead the Northern Division by a-game over the Vermont Mountaineers with a 5-to-4 victory against the Mystic Schooners (15-8). A three-run bottom of the third got the Moose up and running after falling down 1-to-0 in the top half, the Schooners cut that lead to 3-to-2 in the top of the 4th against eventual winning pitcher Christian Lavoie (2-1). The Mainers added 2 more in the bottom of the 6th and the bullpen was called on to earn their way out of it.
Nick Poore worked his way through 2 innings allowing 2 earned runs while issuing 4 free passes and striking out 3 moving his ERA to 2.04 on the season, but the pitching did enough with Jonathan Chudy earning his way out of dangerous situation in the 8th inning to get the ball to Cam Hatch.
The Mainers bats were led by Caden Bailey and his 2-for-4 night with 2 RBI's and Walker Pennington who finished 2-for-3 with a run scored and 1 RBI. Drake Parker also punched his only hit in 2 at-bats driving in a run, along with Cory Raley finishing 1-for-3 with one RBI as well. The Mainers had three players double, Raley, Pennington, Parker and Bailey legged out a triple. All-in-all the Mainers knocked 9 hits worked 3 walks and drive in 5 RBI.
In the third, Mystic got on the board during the top-half, Andrew Hinckley singled to center field, then was caught stealing by catcher Stevie Berman for the first out, Jared Hendren advanced to 1st base on an error by Matt Harris, Hendren stole second, Toby Handley moved to first on an error by third baseman Caden Bailey bringing home Hendren to give the Schooners a 1-to-0 lead.
Sanford would respond in the bottom half, Walker Pennington would double to left field to lead off the inning and Drake Parker would follow that up with a double of his own driving in Pennington. Nick Lovullo would ground out to shortstop moving Parker to 3rd base. Caden Bailey would go opposite field into the corner for a triple that would easily score Parker, Cory Raley would follow that up with an RBI double to center field bringing home Bailey. All three runs scored with one out on the board.
Sliding into the bottom of the sixth with a 3-to-2 lead for the Mainers, Dan Hetzel would reach on an error by 2nd baseman Dan Hoy and Hetzel would move over to second on an errant throw. Matt Harris would single to left, Hetzel moves to third and Pennington would sacrifice fly to center trotting home Hetzel. Harris would steal second one of three stolen bases on the night for the Mainers and 4th on the season for Harris. Nick Lovullo would walk putting runners and 1st and 3rd while Harris advanced on a passed ball error on the Schooners catcher Louis Ianotti (1). Caden Bailey would once again come up huge for the Mainers driving in his second RBI with a two-out RBI single bringing in Harris putting the score at 5-to-2 Mainers on top after 6 innings.
5 runs would be all that was needed for the Mainers pitching staff that sports a stellar ERA of 2.56 and has allowed just 5 runs in 32 innings pitched over the last 7 days while recording 33 strikeouts as a staff and holding opponents to just a .246 batting average and a miniscule earned-run-average of 1.13, Cam Hatch punches out 2 of the final 3 batters by way of the strikeout to shut the door on a 5-4 win! '
The Mainers move to 16-and-8 on the season with the 8th win in a row and have tomorrow (7/10) off, but will get back at it on Friday at Goodall Park against the Keene Swamp Bats (11-11) with Ben Wessel (0-1) on the mound, and finish out this week at home against the Plymouth Pilgrims (18-6) on Saturday! Make sure you get out to Goodall Park this weekend for some fantastic baseball both games set-for first-pitch at 6:30 pm!
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