We were having such a nice summer, Mother Nature. If you could go ahead and get us back to that, I think we’d all appreciate it. For the third time this week, games were postponed — four in all. One game was called after six innings.
On the bright side, it was nice that that game went six innings, and not five-and-a-half.
Before the rains came, Orleans rallied from a 2-1 deficit against first-place Brewster and grabbed a 4-2 lead in the top of the sixth. With Brewster batting in the bottom half, the game was delayed. Because the sixth inning hadn’t been completed, the score — if the game had been called then — would have reverted to the fifth inning and Brewster would have won.
Instead, the rain lightened enough for the teams to play, and Will Clinard (Vanderbilt) allowed a run but nothing else to get six in the books. At that point, the game was called, and the comeback counted. Orleans won 4-3.
Early on, before the rainy drama, the Firebirds couldn’t get much going against Brewster’s Andrew Gagnon (Long Beach State), the all-star starter. But Steve Selsky (Arizona) hit a home run in the sixth to tie the game, and Orleans got two more runs later in the inning.
That was enough to make the difference. Orleans improved to 15-18 with the victory. The loss was the second straight for Brewster, who fell to 22-11.
What to Watch
Bourne’s Anthony Meo (Coastal Carolina) stopped a Wareham four-game winning streak last Saturday, and he’ll try to do the same to Harwich this Saturday. The Mariners host the Braves and send Pierce Johnson (Missouri State) to the hill.
On a different note, I may or may not have internet tomorrow, so it’s possible that I won’t get the Daily Fog up.