Week 7 Recap: Playoff Primer
Y-D lost the division title, but everything resets tonight as the CCBL playoffs get underway. Y-D begins a three-game series against Orleans.
Y-D lost the division title, but everything resets tonight as the CCBL playoffs get underway. Y-D begins a three-game series against Orleans.
The Y-D Red Sox have now lost five straight, and while clinching the division once seemed inevitable, the Whitecaps inch closer.
After a 4-1-1 week, the Y-D Red Sox have an eight-point lead atop the East division and are looking for a strong push over the final four games before the All-Star break.
Yost controlled the flow through 6.2 innings against Falmouth Wednesday night, limiting the Commodores to just four hits and ceding only an unearned run while keeping traffic off the basepaths via ground balls. Cole Carrigg drove in two at the plate, and the Red Sox earned a 3-2 win over the Commodores at Guv Fuller Field.
The Sox struggled late in the week, but remain in first place in the East division thanks to three wins early in the week. A look at that and more around the Cape from the past seven days.
After a comeback victory against Bourne, the Sox fell to Orleans before rattling off wins against Chatham and Cotuit and sweeping Falmouth in a doubleheader on Sunday.
The Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox got two early runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back, riding an impressive start from Grand Canyon’s Connor Markl the rest of the way Sunday night, beating the Falmouth Commodores, 4-0, in game two of a doubleheader. The Red Sox completed the sweep after a game one win.
Despite starting the season 0-3-1, the Red Sox went 3-0-1 over their next four games once the bats got going. Through those first four games, the Red Sox put up just six runs. In the next four, they scored 22 times.
BY: PJ MCDONALD FALMOUTH– After a much-needed off-day Y-D traveled to Falmouth for the first time this season on Friday night to face off against the Commodores. After a tough loss to Harwich on Wednesday night the Red Sox looked to get the offense rolling and make a playoff push. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case … Read more