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Brady Coe surrenders one hit, A’s beat Cotuit 2-0 in 7-inning July 21 resumption
COTUIT, Mass. — Brady Coe had an hour to kill, so he took a nap.
Coe, a right-handed pitcher from Houston, was set to make his first start of the summer Sunday morning in Cotuit. Like the rest of the Anglers, he arrived at Lowell Park at around 10:15 a.m. for an 11 o’clock first pitch.
It was already going to be a strange game. The contest originally began on July 21, but was rained out in the third inning. The game was scheduled to resume on July 30, but more rain pushed it to August 2, where it’d serve as Game 1 of a Sunday doubleheader. Because of that, the game would only be seven innings. And since it stopped halfway through the third inning, only four and a half frames of baseball were set to be played at Lowell Park Sunday morning.
To add more tomfoolery to an already confusing day, CCBL umpires didn’t arrive until 87 minutes after the scheduled first pitch. Coe, already fired up for his outing, had to cool his heels for an extra hour and a half. So, he rested on a table near the A’s bullpen.
“It was good for me just to relax a little bit and not get too amped up before going out,” Coe said.
And it worked. Coe tossed five one-hit innings against the Kettleers in his longest outing of the summer. After 12 days, two reschedulings and seven innings played on two separate days, Chatham (18-18-3, East) completed a 2-0 victory over Cotuit (12-25-2, West) Sunday afternoon at Lowell Park. Harlin Hovater’s (Mississippi State) third-inning home run — which occurred on July 21, but didn’t officially count until Sunday — proved to be the difference in the game.
But Coe stole the show.
“Brady did exactly what we needed him to do,” Chatham acting manager Jay Powell said. “He’s been good all year. We wanted to get him a start, and kept getting rained out and rained out. Today was a perfect day, and then you get set up, and he has to wait an hour and 20 minutes. But he handled it incredibly well.”
It won’t officially count as a start for Coe, as Jack Gleason (Mississippi State) originally got the ball for the A’s when the game began on July 21. But Gleason left the A’s on July 27, and Coe was the only pitcher Powell planned on using Sunday morning.
He wasn’t the only new face Chatham had to introduce. Of the nine names in the A’s batting order when the game began on July 21, three of them are no longer with the team. Junior Lauaki (Georgia), Cole Johnson (Georgia) and Ty Mainolfi (Boston College) were all released for various reasons over the past two weeks. So, Chatham began the game with a few substitutions.
Tyler Howe (UNC) took over at first base for Lauaki, Jacob Driver (Meridian CC) took over for Johnson in the designated hitter spot and Cam Pruitt (Missouri) took over at third for Mainolfi. Aidan Eshelman (UTSA) also subbed in at shortstop for Jack Bell (Texas A&M), though Bell is still with Chatham.
Back on July 21, Gleason began the game with two shutout innings, allowing no hits. Coe picked up where he left off in the bottom of the third, working with a 1-0 lead.
Coe made quick work of the Kettleers in his first inning of work, striking the side in the bottom of the third. He issued a walk in the fourth, but escaped after his defense turned an inning-ending double play.
“He stayed ahead of the count,” Powell said, listing the litany of things to like about Coe’s outing. “He commanded his fastball well. He attacked the hitters. He used that breaking ball in good counts.”
Cotuit’s contact started getting louder in the bottom of the fifth, after Landon Beaver (UAB) and Aiden Aguayo (UCLA) drove pitches deep into the outfield. Yet both found the glove of a Chatham outfielder, allowing the A’s to escape the frame without allowing a hit.
Powell and Coe both credited the development of Coe’s breaking ball as a major reason for his success. Coe said he entered the summer using just two pitches, but his arsenal has grown to about five.
“My fastball has a lot of ride to it, so just getting a pitch that goes down vertically off the fastball that goes up, it gets the hitters off-time,” Coe said. “Just being able to develop that really fast was a huge confidence builder.”
Chatham got another knock to lead off the sixth, as Pruitt lined a single into center. He advanced all the way to third after an error on a pickoff back to first base, then Jamie Palmese (Kansas) singled to left to score him. That was the extent of the A’s offense, though, as Bino Watters (LSU) grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Coe didn’t need any more run support, though. He took the hill in the seventh, three outs away from a no-hitter.
He couldn’t get it done, as he walked the leadoff runner before Cotuit’s Sam Christiansen (Alabama) lined a single into right-center for the Kettleers’ first hit. But Coe dug Chatham out of the two-on, no-out situation, inducing two popouts and a strikeout.
Coe said he hadn’t thrown a no-hitter since a five-inning one in 13U or 14U. It would’ve been Chatham’s first since the 1991 season.
“I don't think that would have changed my mindset,” Coe said after learning of Chatham’s 35-year drought. “But I think I would have worked a little bit harder for that one.
“I had a lot of one-hitters in high school that I was really mad about,” he added postgame. “But other than that, a win's a win.”
He came up just short again Sunday morning. But there’s not too much for him to be mad about this time. A win is a win. And he carried the Anglers to one.
Coe, a right-handed pitcher from Houston, was set to make his first start of the summer Sunday morning in Cotuit. Like the rest of the Anglers, he arrived at Lowell Park at around 10:15 a.m. for an 11 o’clock first pitch.
It was already going to be a strange game. The contest originally began on July 21, but was rained out in the third inning. The game was scheduled to resume on July 30, but more rain pushed it to August 2, where it’d serve as Game 1 of a Sunday doubleheader. Because of that, the game would only be seven innings. And since it stopped halfway through the third inning, only four and a half frames of baseball were set to be played at Lowell Park Sunday morning.
To add more tomfoolery to an already confusing day, CCBL umpires didn’t arrive until 87 minutes after the scheduled first pitch. Coe, already fired up for his outing, had to cool his heels for an extra hour and a half. So, he rested on a table near the A’s bullpen.
“It was good for me just to relax a little bit and not get too amped up before going out,” Coe said.
And it worked. Coe tossed five one-hit innings against the Kettleers in his longest outing of the summer. After 12 days, two reschedulings and seven innings played on two separate days, Chatham (18-18-3, East) completed a 2-0 victory over Cotuit (12-25-2, West) Sunday afternoon at Lowell Park. Harlin Hovater’s (Mississippi State) third-inning home run — which occurred on July 21, but didn’t officially count until Sunday — proved to be the difference in the game.
But Coe stole the show.
“Brady did exactly what we needed him to do,” Chatham acting manager Jay Powell said. “He’s been good all year. We wanted to get him a start, and kept getting rained out and rained out. Today was a perfect day, and then you get set up, and he has to wait an hour and 20 minutes. But he handled it incredibly well.”
It won’t officially count as a start for Coe, as Jack Gleason (Mississippi State) originally got the ball for the A’s when the game began on July 21. But Gleason left the A’s on July 27, and Coe was the only pitcher Powell planned on using Sunday morning.
He wasn’t the only new face Chatham had to introduce. Of the nine names in the A’s batting order when the game began on July 21, three of them are no longer with the team. Junior Lauaki (Georgia), Cole Johnson (Georgia) and Ty Mainolfi (Boston College) were all released for various reasons over the past two weeks. So, Chatham began the game with a few substitutions.
Tyler Howe (UNC) took over at first base for Lauaki, Jacob Driver (Meridian CC) took over for Johnson in the designated hitter spot and Cam Pruitt (Missouri) took over at third for Mainolfi. Aidan Eshelman (UTSA) also subbed in at shortstop for Jack Bell (Texas A&M), though Bell is still with Chatham.
Back on July 21, Gleason began the game with two shutout innings, allowing no hits. Coe picked up where he left off in the bottom of the third, working with a 1-0 lead.
Coe made quick work of the Kettleers in his first inning of work, striking the side in the bottom of the third. He issued a walk in the fourth, but escaped after his defense turned an inning-ending double play.
“He stayed ahead of the count,” Powell said, listing the litany of things to like about Coe’s outing. “He commanded his fastball well. He attacked the hitters. He used that breaking ball in good counts.”
Cotuit’s contact started getting louder in the bottom of the fifth, after Landon Beaver (UAB) and Aiden Aguayo (UCLA) drove pitches deep into the outfield. Yet both found the glove of a Chatham outfielder, allowing the A’s to escape the frame without allowing a hit.
Powell and Coe both credited the development of Coe’s breaking ball as a major reason for his success. Coe said he entered the summer using just two pitches, but his arsenal has grown to about five.
“My fastball has a lot of ride to it, so just getting a pitch that goes down vertically off the fastball that goes up, it gets the hitters off-time,” Coe said. “Just being able to develop that really fast was a huge confidence builder.”
Chatham got another knock to lead off the sixth, as Pruitt lined a single into center. He advanced all the way to third after an error on a pickoff back to first base, then Jamie Palmese (Kansas) singled to left to score him. That was the extent of the A’s offense, though, as Bino Watters (LSU) grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Coe didn’t need any more run support, though. He took the hill in the seventh, three outs away from a no-hitter.
He couldn’t get it done, as he walked the leadoff runner before Cotuit’s Sam Christiansen (Alabama) lined a single into right-center for the Kettleers’ first hit. But Coe dug Chatham out of the two-on, no-out situation, inducing two popouts and a strikeout.
Coe said he hadn’t thrown a no-hitter since a five-inning one in 13U or 14U. It would’ve been Chatham’s first since the 1991 season.
“I don't think that would have changed my mindset,” Coe said after learning of Chatham’s 35-year drought. “But I think I would have worked a little bit harder for that one.
“I had a lot of one-hitters in high school that I was really mad about,” he added postgame. “But other than that, a win's a win.”
He came up just short again Sunday morning. But there’s not too much for him to be mad about this time. A win is a win. And he carried the Anglers to one.
