The Chatham fog made its first appearance of the 2018 season Thursday night. It’s a Veterans Field tradition, tinged with just enough magic to make it more cool than annoying.
First fog. (📷: @jules81397) pic.twitter.com/DHy2m1Pd4a
— Chatham Anglers (@ChathamAnglers) June 22, 2018
And it didn’t do too much damage this round. Chatham and Hyannis played to a 3-3 draw in a game that was called after five innings due to the fog.
The Anglers raced to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first, a start keyed by a John Rave (Illinois State) solo home run. Hyannis came back with two runs in the fourth inning and one in the fifth, with a Seth Gray (Wright State) sacrifice fly bringing in the equalizing run.
Chatham put the leadoff man on in the bottom of the fifth, but reliever Adam Elliott (Louisville) induced a double play. Then, after a Spencer Torkelson (Arizona State) double, Elliott struck out Blake Sabol (USC) to end the inning, and, as it turned out, the game.
Chatham goes to 5-3-2 on the year while Hyannis is 4-4-1.
Bourne 4, Wareham 3
Bourne broke a tie in the eighth inning and went on to its fourth win in a row. The Spencers delivered the heroics, with Spencer Horwitz (Radford) driving in Spencer Brickhouse (East Carolina) to give the aBraves the lead. Trey Benton (East Carolina) pitched around two hits in the ninth to finish off the win. Bourne also got two RBI from Jared Triolo (Houston) and a home run by Chase Murray (Georgia Tech).
Y-D 6, Cotuit 1
Karl Kaufmann (Michigan) logged his second dominant start in as many tries, allowing just an unearned run in five innings as Y-D beat Cotuit. Kaufmann owns a 0.00 ERA in 10 innings. As good as he was, the bullpen was even better, with Braidyn Fink (Oklahoma) going three innings without allowing a hit and Ryne Nelson (Oregon) also not allowing a hit in one inning of work. Christian Koss (UC Irvine) went 3-for-4 with three RBI to lead the offense and Andrew Daschbach (Stanford) homered.
Harwich 4, Falmouth 1
Jake Agnos (East Carolina) had a 6.17 ERA for Harwich last summer, but it was so high in large part because of one eight-run relief outing. Otherwise he was pretty good, and in his 2018 return, he was great. Agnos struck out 10, walked two and gave up three hits as Harwich beat Falmouth. Tom Sutera (Siena) followed with two scoreless frames and Andrew Misiaszek (Northeastern) picked up his third save. Gabe Rivera (Miami), Matt Gorski (Indiana) and Ben Norman (Iowa) each had an RBI to pace the offense.
Orleans 3, Brewster 0
Orleans is getting the most of its Team USA-bound pitchers. A night after Graeme Stinson (Duke) dominated, Kenyon Yovan (Oregon) didn’t allow a hit in five innings and the team went on to a shutout of Brewster. Yovan struck out four and walked one. Noah Song (Navy) then struck out six in three scoreless innings and Aaron Ochsenbein (Eastern Kentucky) picked up the save. Carter Aldrete (Arizona State) homered to lead the Orleans offense.
What to Watch
Fresh off six shutout innings in his first Cape start, Matthew Canterino (Rice) gets the ball again as Falmouth visits Hyannis.