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Ragins Dominates, But Bay Sox Drop First Game of Doubleheader\

June 26, 2017 - New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL)
New Bedford Bay Sox News Release


Darrien Ragins racked up nine strikeouts, but earned his second loss of the season, as the Danbury Westerners came from behind to defeat the New Bedford Bay Sox 4-3 in the first game of a doubleheader on Monday afternoon.

The Westerners got on the board early with an unearned run in the first, thanks to two Bay Sox' errors. Nick Neville (Notre Dame) had a grounder to second take a tough bounce, while a throw from third baseman Kevin Brophy (West Virginia) that could have ended the first without a run scored brought first baseman Karsten Sherman (Keiser) off the bag to extend the inning and give the visitors a 1-0 lead.

The home squad loaded the bases with the first three hitters in their lineup reaching. Reigning Player of the Week Corey Joyce (North Carolina Central) was hit by a pitch, Neville drew a four-pitch walk, and Luke Bakula (Kansas) blooped a single to center to pack the sacks. Danbury starter Baylor Sundahl got two quick outs via a strikeout of cleanup hitter Sherman and a pop-up to the pitcher by his Sacred Heart teammate Dan Schock, but catcher Nick Matera came through with a single to right field that scored Joyce and Neville for a 2-1 Bay Sox lead. Matera got aggressive on the bases, as he attempted a steal of second, and Danbury catcher Sean Buckhout lost control of the throw, which landed in center field and allowed Bakula to come across the plate for the third New Bedford run.

Ragins (Delaware State) bounced back after the sloppy first inning to demonstrate his dominant stuff by reeling off five straight Ks during the second and third innings.

The Westerners cut the Bay Sox' lead in half in the fifth inning, as Ragins allowed a leadoff walk and a single to put runners at first and second. Giovanni Dingcong, who drew the walk, moved to third on a fielder's choice, and came home on a delayed double-steal attempt, as Buckhout got himself tied up between first and second just long enough to have Dingcong touch home plate.

Ragins ran into some more issues in the sixth after earning his ninth (and final) strikeout. Cameron Devanney drew a walk, and scored on a deep drive off the center field wall by power hitter Joe Drpich to tie the game at 3-3. Andrew Tumbelty (Rider) came in out of the Bay Sox bullpen and earned two K's but allowed the go-ahead double by Griffin Dey to give the Westerners a 4-3 lead.

The Sox collected back-to-back singles to start the bottom of the sixth inning, but Bakula was thrown out at third base on a single to left by Sherman, which erased a first-and-third chance that would have likely tied the game after a fly out to left field on the next at-bat.

Sundahl was very impressive until the last out was needed in the seven-inning game, as he walked Brophy and Joyce with two down and was replaced by Mike Kreiger. Kreiger got Neville to pop up to Devanney in shallow left field on the first pitch he tossed to end the first game and move the Bay Sox back to .500 at 7-7.



New England Collegiate Baseball League Stories from June 26, 2017


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