After a weekend away, I’ll be back to the regular posting schedule tomorrow. For now, a few brief thoughts from some box score catching up.
I guess Friday was shutout night. Four of the five games were shutouts, and the other was a 5-1 game.
Tyler Ray (Troy) had the best strikeout numbers of the shutout pitchers, finishing with seven. Matt Larkins (UC Riverside) allowed just one hit in his five shutout innings against Chatham.
B.A. Vollmuth (Southern Miss) and Matt Skole (Georgia Tech) made their debuts for Falmouth on Friday. Both are returning players coming off huge sophomore seasons.
Pitching for the first time since last year’s College World Series, Josh Spence (Arizona State) struck out five in two innings for Cotuit on Saturday. I’ll be interested to see how much he can — and how much he wants to — pitch this summer.
Chatham’s Ricky Oropesa (USC) hit a home run and drove in three as the Anglers tied Cotuit in the second game of their Saturday twin bill. Oropesa leads the league in home runs and RBI.
Kolten Wong (Hawaii) and Steve Selsky (Arizona) combined for five hits as Orleans ran its win streak to three with a sweep of Wareham on Saturday. Selsky also hit a home run. Selsky and Wong now rank 1-2 in batting average. Orleans got to Matt Barnes (UConn) in the first game for four runs in seven innings. Jed Bradley (Georgia Tech) made his Wareham debut in the second game and allowed five runs (three earned) in six innings.
Bourne’s Mike Morin (North Carolina) delivered the second-best strikeout performance of the summer on Saturday, punching out 10 and allowing just one hit in five innings as the Braves topped Y-D for a split. Morin was the top prospect in the MINK League last year as an incoming freshman.
Luke Bard (Georgia Tech) struck out five in three innings for Brewster in a win over Falmouth. Also pitching for the Whitecaps in that game was late addition Tommy Kahnle (Lynn). Kahnle, a flame-throwing fifth-round pick, pitched for Orleans last summer and was on the Orleans roster for a while this year. He’s with Brewster instead, joining Anthony Ranaudo as a high pick getting some Cape innings. Kahnle pitched one innings for the Whitecaps and recorded all three outs via the strikeout on his way to a save.
