For the second straight game, pitching dominated the Cape League championship series.
And that means we’ll have a third game.
A day after Cotuit took game one thanks to an incredible performance by Matt Andriese, Y-D’s pitchers returned the favor. John Leonard started and went six shutout innings. Anthony Desclafani and D.J. Baxendale finished it off as Y-D won 2-1, forcing a game three that will be played today.
Leonard and Austin Wood were locked in a pitchers’ duel for most of the game. Through four neither team had scored.
In the fifth, Y-D scratched a run across on a Bobby Crocker squeeze bunt. Tyler Hanover made it 2-0 with an RBI single in the second.
Cotuit’s James McCann hit a home run in the eighth to cut the deficit in half, and the Kettleers put the tying run on second in the ninth. But Baxendale got out of the inning to seal the win and extend the series.
The teams will play for the championship today at 3 p.m.