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Whitman Legion making a push for the playoffs
Written by Dave Palana
Fri, Jul 11, 2008 14:20
Post 22 scored 14 runs in Pembroke on Monday, but Bill Collins only needed one.
Greg Baggett crosses the plate with Whitman’s third run. Baggett later picked up 2 RBI with a single in the third.
Collins allowed a first-inning single and hit a batter in the second, but did not allow another Pembroke runner to reach base in his four innings of work.
“He’s starting to peak as a pitcher now,” said head coach Chuck Adams. “He’s really coming on strong.”
Chris Parker closed out the game with a scoreless fifth inning as the Whitman American Legion baseball team beat Pembroke 14-0 to improve to 6-8-1 on the season.
“We’re getting hot now and we’re starting to gel,” Adams said. “This a young team and they are really starting to mature. Every game, they are getting a little bit better.”
Pembroke errors accounted for nine unearned runs in the game and helped Whitman put the game out of reach with an eight-run third inning. Brendan O’Brien had a good day offensively for Whitman in the win, going 2-3 with three RBI, three runs scored and a stolen base while Beau Barnes finished a home run short of the cycle with a triple, double, and single to go with four RBI.
“He’s had a slow year due to injuries, but he is really starting to come around,” Adams said of Barnes. “He can carry the team with his bat. He is a big reason why we have gotten to the sectionals each of the last two years.”
The offensive explosion against Pembroke came on the heels of a 3-2 win over Brockton on Sunday to extend Whitman’s dominance over Post 35 to eight straight games.
Brendan O’Brien had a big day offensively with three RBI and three runs scored for Whitman.
Jake Ruoff picked up the win for Whitman with help from a bizarre double play in the fifth inning. With Whitman up by one and Brockton runners on second and third, Collins fielded a grounder at short and caught the Brockton runner at second in a run-down. After Collins tagged the runner out, the Brockton batter who hit the grounder was caught in a second rundown between second and first and the third base runner broke for the plate to try and tie the game. Collins fired the ball to catcher Greg Baggett, who got the out at the plate and ended the Brockton rally.
Collins also executed a suicide squeeze to score the eventual winning run in the game while John Bilunas scored the first two runs for Whitman. Anthony Glynn added an RBI single while leadoff hitter Ryan Ambrose reached base in all four trips to the plate.
While Whitman is still on the outside looking in at the tournament with just over a week of games left, they still have a shot at the tournament. Post 22 has two games against the teams at the bottom of the standings as well as a shot at teams ahead of them in Hanover and Dennis. If his team continues to improve, Adams said he is confident they will make a run at the playoffs.
“We’ve won four out of our last five and we’ve got to stay hot,” he said, adding that they should play deep into the tournament if they can get in. “If we keep playing like we’re playing now and the numbers work out, we’re going to go far.”
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