Playoff seedings were all set in stone by the penultimate day of the regular season, so there wasn’t much to the final three games of the year. With the final day in the books, the leaderboards are now also cemented, so we’ll instead focus on that here.
– Falmouth’s Zach DeLoach (Texas A&M) won the batting title with a .353 average, two points ahead of NCAA batting champ Nick Gonzales (New Mexico State). DeLoach didn’t play in Thursday’s season finale, with his 2-for-4 game on July 31 standing as his final act. He is the first Falmouth Commodore to win the batting crown since now-Pittsburgh Pirates rookie Kevin Newman went back-to-back in 2013 and 2014.
– Harwich’s Niko Kavadas (Notre Dame) and Brewster’s T.J. Collett (Kentucky) tied for the home run crown with nine each. Kavadas had reached nine with a week left in the season but was unable to get to 10, which would have been the most in a CCBL regular season since 2012. Collett had a stretch of four home runs in six games to move into the tie.
– Hyannis’ Hunter Goodman (Memphis) led the lead in RBI with 37. He is the first rising sophomore to lead the Cape League in RBI since 2006, when Chatham’s Allan Dykstra did it. The 37 is the most in the league since 2014, when Falmouth’s Conner Hale drove in 38.
– Outside the triple crown categories, Wareham’s Braiden Ward (Washington) led in stolen bases with 27, while Gonzales had the top slugging percentage at .630 and the top on-base percentage at .451.
– Tyler Hardman (Oklahoma) and Tyler Gentry (Alabama) of Brewster were the only players in the league to play in all 44 games.
– Harwich’s Jacob Palisch (Stanford) led the league in wins with five, besting a group of three pitchers with four and a ton of guys with three. Palisch was in line for the ERA title, too, but finished just a hair shy of the number of innings needed to qualify.
– Hyannis’ Konner Ash (Missouri) is the strikeout king with 41, which surprisingly went along with a 5.72 ERA. Ash made four starts and six relief appearances. His K/9 ratio was 13.1.
– Brewster’s Mason Black (Lehigh) had the top ERA at 1.49. He’s the first Brewster pitcher to do it since Shuan Seibert in 2006.
– Falmouth’s Zachary Brzykcy (Virginia Tech) led the league in saves with seven.
What to Watch
It’s right into the playoffs, with division semifinal games in Chatham, Orleans, Falmouth and Wareham on Friday.