by Todd Dias
Modsquad Online Contributor
In the first inning last night the boys in purple showed some rust from not having played in almost 2 weeks. The Amscan hitters put 6 runs on the the board in the top of the inning. ModSquad did little to respond in the bottom half besides Nick DiFranza continuing his MVP bid with a double. In the 2nd ModSquad woke up, allowing no runs on defense and getting right back in the game with a 5 run outburst spurred on by the 5 through 10 hitters and Chris Iannantuoni clearing the bags with a 3 run home run. After adding a run each in the 4th and 5th to tie and pull ahead by 1 the defense again had a lapse and allowed 5 runs to Amscan who also refused to back down. Finally the tenacity of the ModSquad showed when in the bottom of the 5th after 2 quick outs the boys put a huge rally together made up of timely hitting and some unfortunate errors by the Amscam defense. When the dust settled the ‘Squad had scored 8 runs to pull ahead by 4. This time they would not relinquish the lead and added another run in the 6th to make the final tally 16-11. Offensive standouts included Iannantuoni (4-5 3B HR), DiFranza (4-4 3 doubles), Brogdon (2-3 BB 2 runs), and Leahy (3-4 2B 3B). The team will now regroup and prepare to face regular season rival Pernod Ricard in a double header for all the marbles on Thursday. The 2 teams split the 4 previous head to head match ups.
Box Score
Hitters AB R H RBI BB
Iannantuoni 5 3 4 4 0
Dias 5 1 1 0 0
DiFranza 4 1 4 3 0
Anderson 5 1 1 2 0
Vallejo 4 1 0 0 0
Joel 4 1 2 2 0
Brogdon 3 2 2 0 1
Klein 4 2 2 0 0
Leahy 4 1 3 2 0
Swingle 3 3 0 1 1
2B – DiFranza 3, Anderson, Leahy
3B – Iannantuoni, Leahy
HR- Iannantuoni
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