It is not often that we get to see a new Cape League record established, but in the final few days of this wild summer of 2012, it’s possible that a lot of history could be made. A quick rundown:
With six games left, Harwich needs two home runs to break the Cape League’s team record of 59, which was set by Orleans — with metal bats — in 1982. There was a time this season when it looked like the Mariners were going to shatter the record. They slowed down, but it’s a pretty safe bet that they’re going to get the record anyway.
Yarmouth-Dennis has five games left and with a big finish, the Red Sox could break two Cape League records: hits and batting average. The hits record is 463 and Y-D currently has 419. The Red Sox would need to average about nine hits a game — which isn’t out of the realm of possibility for them. As for batting average, the record is .314 and Y-D is currently at .306.
Cotuit’s Patrick Biondi is hitting .405 and could become the first Cape Leaguer to hit .400 since Mark Smith hit .408 for Wareham in 1990. Cotuit has six games left.
With 75 strikeouts, Sean Manaea is expected to take the hill this afternoon and if he does anything close to what he’s been doing, he’ll break the modern strikeout record of 82, set by Daniel Bard in 2005. The actual Cape League record is 126, which was set when teams played significantly more games.
Wareham’s Tyler Horan hit his 12th home run last night, already the most since at least 2000. Wareham has six games left. If Horan has a ridiculous finish, he could approach the wood-beat record of 16, which was set in 1988.
Manaea has eight strikeouts through four innings, so he’s got the modern record!!!
Glass Beach: Who would have ever thought? Who would have conceived that what was discarded as trash, what was useless in the eyes of the world, what was so varied in shape, size, texture, and background, could come together to be?
Amazing stuff from Manaea.
Galina Hathaway either has a really poetic take on Sean Manaea or that’s spam.