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Chatham squanders 7-run lead, suffers 9-8 defeat to Brewster
BREWSTER, Mass. — After three straight victories — one of which even included some weather-related luck, Chatham may have been due for a rough break.
There aren’t too many worse ways to lose than by squandering a substantial lead in the ninth. That’s exactly what the Anglers did at Stony Brook Field Monday.
Chatham (7-6-1) led 8-1 entering the bottom of the seventh, but allowed eight runs in the final three innings in a 9-8 loss to Brewster (8-6-1, East). Colin Fisher (Arkansas) tossed six innings of one-run ball, allowing just two hits, but the A’s bullpen couldn’t replicate the effort, leading to just the Anglers second loss in their last 10 games.
Up by seven entering the seventh, Wyatt Nadeau (Vanderbilt) was deputized to take over for Fisher, but he ran into some trouble in his Chatham debut. With one out, he issued a walk and a single before a Jay Abernathy (Tennessee) groundout plated Brewster’s second run. Then Michael Torres (Miami) doubled into left to score another run, cutting the A’s lead to five.
It prompted Chatham manager Dennis Cook to opt for another debutant from his bullpen, righty Chase Meyer (Arizona State). He promptly gave up a two-run single to Brody DeLamielleure (Florida State) to trim the lead to just three, but that appeared to be the extent of the threat, as Meyer struck out Jacob Lee (VCU) to escape the inning.
For a moment, things felt safe for the A’s. They just needed six outs to escape Stony Brook with a win. And after a clean eighth inning, that goal became a lot more realistic.
But the Whitecaps wouldn’t go away. With Meyer still on the hill, Brewster loaded the bases with no outs after an infield single and two walks in the ninth. Cook took a moment to talk things over with Meyer, but ultimately stuck with the right-hander as he tried to work out of the jam.
He couldn’t reward the decision, as the runs quickly came piling in. First, Cash Strayer (Florida) tapped a ball between the mound and home plate, and Jamie Laskofski (North Carolina) beat Meyer to the dish to cut the lead to two. Then, DeLamielleure deposited a line drive into shallow center field for a two-run single, which tied the game at eight.
It was then that Meyer was pulled in favor of Collins Black (NC State), but the task at hand was nearly impossible. He needed three outs without letting a runner score from second. He — like Meyer — couldn’t even get the first.
Lee kept the Brewster offense rolling, dropping a bloop single to center to load the bases. Then,
Dane Harvey (Ohio State) put the finishing blow on the gloomy fate that so rapidly approached Chatham.
It felt like an unfathomable result after the first few innings. Or really, the first six innings, for that matter. The Angler offense showed all kinds of promise early.
Rob Rispoli (UConn) set the tone on the very first pitch of the game. He hammered Santiago Garcia’s (LSU) offering into deep left field for a leadoff double. Then Cooper Neville (Alabama) reached on an infield single, before a throwing error allowed both him and Rispoli to advance a base. Nine pitches in, the Anglers forced Garcia’s first earned run of his CCBL career — as he hadn’t allowed one in his eight appearances over the past two summers.
The Brewster bats appeared up to the task, though. Terrence Kiel II (Texas A&M) and DeLamielleure smacked singles on back-to-back pitches off Fisher, and a groundout from Edward Yamin IV (LSU) plated Kiel from third soon after.
The run didn’t make things much easier on the other end for Garcia, though. He got Harlin Hovater (Mississippi State) to pop out to begin the second inning, but then walked Tyler Lichtenberger (Clemson), suffered a two-base error on a Kaiden Dossa (Yale) fly ball to left and walked Armani Guzman (West Virginia) in quick succession to load the bases.
Rispoli — who led off again Monday after a one-game stint in the No. 9 hole — came up with another big double, punching a ground ball down the first base line to score Lichtenberger and Dossa.
After a brief mound visit, Bino Watters (LSU) chopped a ground ball up the middle to score Guzman and Rispoli, pushing the A’s lead to four. Neville was then hit in the helmet by a looping breaking ball to put two ducks on the pond, and Cole Johnson (Georgia) scored them both on a single into left. He was thrown out on the basepaths trying to advance to second, but the damage was done. It appeared to be more than enough to cruise to a win.
Especially considering that Chatham’s starter, Fisher, didn’t give up another hit. He completed six innings for the first time this year, totaling four strikeouts and allowing just the two hits.
After a bumpy first two innings, Garcia found consistency on the hill, too. He allowed just two baserunners over the next two innings, but picked one of them off and caught the other stealing. Ultimately, when he was eventually pulled after the fourth inning, he exited in line for the loss.
His replacements, Cody Howard (Texas) and Jordan Regulski (Duke), couldn’t keep the A’s off the bases, but they allowed just one run over the next two frames. Howard worked around two walks to pitch a scoreless sixth inning. When Regulski took over in the seventh, he walked Guzman and Rispoli, and a Watters groundout scored Guzman from third to give Chatham some extra insurance.
But that insurance wasn’t enough. The Whitecaps’ bats rose from the dead when Fisher exited the game in the seventh.
And, in the end, all the A’s could do was watch as Brewster mobbed Harvey on the basepaths after his game-winning knock, left with little but the malaise of a missed opportunity.
There aren’t too many worse ways to lose than by squandering a substantial lead in the ninth. That’s exactly what the Anglers did at Stony Brook Field Monday.
Chatham (7-6-1) led 8-1 entering the bottom of the seventh, but allowed eight runs in the final three innings in a 9-8 loss to Brewster (8-6-1, East). Colin Fisher (Arkansas) tossed six innings of one-run ball, allowing just two hits, but the A’s bullpen couldn’t replicate the effort, leading to just the Anglers second loss in their last 10 games.
Up by seven entering the seventh, Wyatt Nadeau (Vanderbilt) was deputized to take over for Fisher, but he ran into some trouble in his Chatham debut. With one out, he issued a walk and a single before a Jay Abernathy (Tennessee) groundout plated Brewster’s second run. Then Michael Torres (Miami) doubled into left to score another run, cutting the A’s lead to five.
It prompted Chatham manager Dennis Cook to opt for another debutant from his bullpen, righty Chase Meyer (Arizona State). He promptly gave up a two-run single to Brody DeLamielleure (Florida State) to trim the lead to just three, but that appeared to be the extent of the threat, as Meyer struck out Jacob Lee (VCU) to escape the inning.
For a moment, things felt safe for the A’s. They just needed six outs to escape Stony Brook with a win. And after a clean eighth inning, that goal became a lot more realistic.
But the Whitecaps wouldn’t go away. With Meyer still on the hill, Brewster loaded the bases with no outs after an infield single and two walks in the ninth. Cook took a moment to talk things over with Meyer, but ultimately stuck with the right-hander as he tried to work out of the jam.
He couldn’t reward the decision, as the runs quickly came piling in. First, Cash Strayer (Florida) tapped a ball between the mound and home plate, and Jamie Laskofski (North Carolina) beat Meyer to the dish to cut the lead to two. Then, DeLamielleure deposited a line drive into shallow center field for a two-run single, which tied the game at eight.
It was then that Meyer was pulled in favor of Collins Black (NC State), but the task at hand was nearly impossible. He needed three outs without letting a runner score from second. He — like Meyer — couldn’t even get the first.
Lee kept the Brewster offense rolling, dropping a bloop single to center to load the bases. Then,
Dane Harvey (Ohio State) put the finishing blow on the gloomy fate that so rapidly approached Chatham.
It felt like an unfathomable result after the first few innings. Or really, the first six innings, for that matter. The Angler offense showed all kinds of promise early.
Rob Rispoli (UConn) set the tone on the very first pitch of the game. He hammered Santiago Garcia’s (LSU) offering into deep left field for a leadoff double. Then Cooper Neville (Alabama) reached on an infield single, before a throwing error allowed both him and Rispoli to advance a base. Nine pitches in, the Anglers forced Garcia’s first earned run of his CCBL career — as he hadn’t allowed one in his eight appearances over the past two summers.
The Brewster bats appeared up to the task, though. Terrence Kiel II (Texas A&M) and DeLamielleure smacked singles on back-to-back pitches off Fisher, and a groundout from Edward Yamin IV (LSU) plated Kiel from third soon after.
The run didn’t make things much easier on the other end for Garcia, though. He got Harlin Hovater (Mississippi State) to pop out to begin the second inning, but then walked Tyler Lichtenberger (Clemson), suffered a two-base error on a Kaiden Dossa (Yale) fly ball to left and walked Armani Guzman (West Virginia) in quick succession to load the bases.
Rispoli — who led off again Monday after a one-game stint in the No. 9 hole — came up with another big double, punching a ground ball down the first base line to score Lichtenberger and Dossa.
After a brief mound visit, Bino Watters (LSU) chopped a ground ball up the middle to score Guzman and Rispoli, pushing the A’s lead to four. Neville was then hit in the helmet by a looping breaking ball to put two ducks on the pond, and Cole Johnson (Georgia) scored them both on a single into left. He was thrown out on the basepaths trying to advance to second, but the damage was done. It appeared to be more than enough to cruise to a win.
Especially considering that Chatham’s starter, Fisher, didn’t give up another hit. He completed six innings for the first time this year, totaling four strikeouts and allowing just the two hits.
After a bumpy first two innings, Garcia found consistency on the hill, too. He allowed just two baserunners over the next two innings, but picked one of them off and caught the other stealing. Ultimately, when he was eventually pulled after the fourth inning, he exited in line for the loss.
His replacements, Cody Howard (Texas) and Jordan Regulski (Duke), couldn’t keep the A’s off the bases, but they allowed just one run over the next two frames. Howard worked around two walks to pitch a scoreless sixth inning. When Regulski took over in the seventh, he walked Guzman and Rispoli, and a Watters groundout scored Guzman from third to give Chatham some extra insurance.
But that insurance wasn’t enough. The Whitecaps’ bats rose from the dead when Fisher exited the game in the seventh.
And, in the end, all the A’s could do was watch as Brewster mobbed Harvey on the basepaths after his game-winning knock, left with little but the malaise of a missed opportunity.
