Inside the Boxes

As I mentioned the other day, I couldn’t get into quite as much detail as usual in the Daily Fog because of a lack of box scores in the morning. That ended up being the case Monday, Tuesday and today. I don’t know if they’re going to be up late like that all year, but if they are, I’ll try to do something like this most days to kind of catch up on things.

I think I eventually tracked most things down from Monday but I missed some stuff Tuesday. So let’s get to some notes.

• Parker Bangs (South Carolina) batted cleanup for Chatham last night and pitched a scoreless inning of relief. It’ll be interesting to see how many innings Bangs gets this year. You don’t often see a true two-way player in the league. Usually they’re spending the summer focusing on one thing. I believe Y-D’s Mike Belfiore is the only one who saw significant time on the mound and at the plate last year.
• Devin Harris (East Carolina) and Tony Plagman (Georgia Tech) are pretty big additions in Cotuit, and it looks like they’ll certainly be counted on. They hit three-four in the lineup last night against Chatham.
• Some strong relief performances around the league, headed by Brewster’s Steven Maxwell (TCU), who allowed one hit in four shutout innings. He struck out seven and didn’t walk anybody. Other standouts: Hyannis’ Kevin Moran (2 IP, 0 R, 4 K’s), Wareham’s Josh Slaats (2 IP, 0 R, 3 K’s), Bourne’s Logan Billbrough (2 IP, 0 R, 3 K’s), and Falmouth’s Chad Sheppard (1 IP, 0 R, 3 K’s).
• Also of note in the relief department, Y-D’s Tyler Burgoon (Michigan) picked up his league-leading third save. Burgoon hasn’t yet allowed a hit this summer in 4.1 innings of work. He has struck out eight and walked just one.
• Tennessee’s Cody Hawn, my pick for MVP, made his first appearance of the last year, pinch-hitting for Hyannis. He did not get a hit, which was par for the course for the Mets. They managed just two all night against four Orleans pitchers.
• He hasn’t had a hit yet so you might not have noticed, but Florida State’s Stephen Cardullo, the only Baseball America first-team All-American on the Cape, is now in the lineup for Harwich. Cardullo hit .376 with 10 home runs and 51 RBI for the Seminoles this spring, but went undrafted.
• Seriously, what’s with all the stealing? Cotuit’s thefts are well-known, but Bourne’s Pierre LePage did the same thing Chris Bisson did opening night and stole four bases last night against Falmouth. I don’t know this for sure, but I’m pretty sure nobody stole four bases in a game all of last year, and now it’s happened twice. LePage is also hitting .389 for Bourne.
• Falmouth’s Murray Watts (Arkansas State), a temporary player who was signed out of the invitational tryout, went 2-for-3 last night to up his average to a team-best .357. Watts is a 6’7, 250-pound redshirt freshman who hit .305 with 10 home runs this spring.
• Wareham’s Derek Dietrich (Georgia Tech) broke out of a mini slump with a 2-for-5 day. Dietrich had just one hit in the first three games.

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