Wareham’s John Andreoli (UConn) was drafted in the 17th round of this year’s draft by the Chicago Cubs. He’s back for a second summer in Wareham, and if he’s trying to raise his stock, he’s certainly helped his cause the last two nights.
Let’s hope the Cubs were watching.
Starting with Saturday’s game against Hyannis and continuing into last night’s match-up with Bourne, Andreoli has gone seven for his last seven. That’s as hot a stretch as anybody has had this summer, and about as hot as anybody could ever hope to be, I would think.
Andreoli doesn’t qualify for the batting average leaderboard because he’s only played in 10 games, but if he did qualify, he’d be leading by a wide, wide margin. Andreoli was hitting .333 when Saturday’s game began. He’s now hitting .457.
His big nights started innocently enough. Batting second on Saturday, he struck out in the first inning.
Then the streak began.
Andreoli hit singles in all of the rest of his at-bats on Saturday and drove in a run. Last night, he put down a sacrifice bunt in the first inning, so somebody actually did get him out, but since that doesn’t count against him, the streak remained.
And he certainly made it a streak. Andreoli singled in the third, doubled in the fifth and singled again in the seventh to finish off the 3-for-3 night.
While Andreoli hasn’t shown a ton of pop — the double was his first — his hot bat will certainly play for Wareham. He also stole three bases and scored what proved to be the winning run in the 3-2 victory over Bourne last night.
Wareham plays Bourne again today at 4 p.m., so Andreoli won’t be catching anyone by surprise. And he obviously won’t stay this hot.
But it’s been quite a stretch.
Elsewhere
Beyond Andreoli, Wareham’s Josh Turley (Baylor) picked up his second straight victory in the Gatemen win. He went six innings and allowed one run. Josh Urban (Texas), Barrett Astin (Arkansas) and Konner Wade (Arizona) finished it off. Max Muncy (Baylor) and Brandon Thomas (Georgia Tech) each had two hits for Wareham.
Harwich delivered some holiday-weekend dramatics with a 4-3 walk-off victory over Brewster. With the game tied in the ninth, John Wooten (East Carolina) and Keith Werman (Virginia) singled. Ronnie Richardson (Central Florida) then walked to load the bases before Austin Nola (LSU) delivered the game-winner. And Nola made sure he was the one who got it — he fouled off six pitches in a 10-pitch at-bat before lining a single to right. Nola had been in a four-game hitless streak but he had two in this one. Carter Capps (Mt. Olive) got the win in relief with two scoreless innings, which kept his ERA at 0.00. Led Rutledge (Samford) made his debut and struck out two in a scoreless inning.
Y-D cooled off a Hyannis team that had won four straight with a 5-2 victory. The Red Sox themselves have now won three in a row and are just two points back of Harwich for first place in the East. Joey DeNato (Indiana) only struck out two but also surrendered just three hits in 7.2 innings to pick up the win. Matt Reckling (Rice) got a key out in the eighth — a strikeout of Adam Brett Walker (Jacksonville) — before Kyle Hansen (St. John’s) picked up the save. Mason Katz (LSU) drove in three runs to lead the Y-D offense and vaulted to the top of the RBI leaderboard in the process.
Falmouth was out-hit 10-7 but pushed three runs across in the second and never looked back en route to a 3-1 victory over Cotuit. Max White (Oklahoma) had an RBI single and Eric Garcia (Missouri) knocked in two with a double in the second. Sean Hagan (St. John’s) went 4.2 innings and got the win. Tyler Duffey (Rice), Nate Koneski (Holy Cross) and Josh Easley (NC State) combined to allow seven hits in the final 4.1 innings but got out of every bit of trouble to seal the victory. Cotuit was led by Alex Yarbrough (Ole Miss), who went 3-for-5 with a home run.
Orleans got three solid pitching performances and did damage offensively with two home runs to beat Chatham 7-3. Ryan Carpenter (Gonzaga) struck out eight and allowed three runs in five innings. Tyler Gebler (Rutgers) and Trevor Gott (Kentucky) came out of the bullpen and allowed no runs. The Firebird offense was led by Jayce Boyd (Florida State) and Ronnie Shaeffer (UC Irvine), who each had two hits and a home run. Matt Roberts (UNC), playing in his second game of the summer, went 3-for-4 with a homer for Chatham. The loss was Chatham’s fifth in a row. Orleans improved to 9-8-2 with the win.
What to Watch
Game: All the same match-ups today. Should be a good one in Hyannis when Y-D comes to town for a 6 p.m. game.
Players: Third-round pick Jack Armstrong (Vanderbilt) is scheduled to make his first start for Y-D. Hyannis counters with Dylan Floro (Cal State Fullerton), who’s been very good so far.
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