All eyes turned to Wareham’s Spillane Field on Saturday night with the Whitecaps playing the only Cape League game of the day, and Brewster delivered. Nineteen hits helped the Whitecaps to an 11-0 defeat of the Gatemen in seven innings.

A day later, Brewster’s offensive firepower carried back into the Cape and into the Stony Brook Field batter's box. This time, it was 10 hits and situational hitting leading the way, good enough for 10 runs and 21 between the two wins.

“Twenty-one runs in two games… let it ferment baby, let it ferment,” Brewster manager Jamie Shevchik said postgame.

Brewster (11-13-1) defeated Falmouth (8-16), 10-8, Sunday night, entering the Monday off day with back-to-back wins. A strong offensive performance that featured a team approach led Brewster to victory, and the Whitecaps also worked eight walks.

“Really what they're doing is they're just not giving up. They're not getting blown away. They're fighting. They're grinding through the pitch counts,” Shevchik said.

Brewster had its ace on the mound but fell behind nonetheless. Whitecaps starter Patrick Forbes (Louisville) entered with a 0.96 ERA, but the Falmouth offense quickly got to work, pouncing on his fastball. Leadoff batter Jaxon Willits (Oklahoma) turned around a 97 mph pitch up the middle for a base hit. The next batter, Forbes’ Louisville teammate Zion Rose, walloped another fastball over the fence, giving the Commodores an early lead.

“I think I needed a little bit of a wake-up call in that first inning,” Forbes said on the Whitecaps postgame show. “I wasn’t too locked in so it was good to get that out of the way and then have a good outing.”

In the bottom half, Brewster came inches away from a scoreless frame but got some help from the Falmouth defense. With Dallas Macias (Oregon State) on first, Kaeden Kent (Texas A&M) hit a hard grounder right at the second baseman, but Falmouth’s fielder missed the mark on the throw to second and the ball rolled into left field.

The pair moved up to second and third and a Daniel Cuvet (Miami) sacrifice fly to right scored Macias. Kent came around on a Nick Dumesnil (Cal Baptist) single and Drew Faurot (Florida State) moved him to third on a single up the middle. Brody Donay (Florida) drove Dumesnil in on another single, capping off a three-run inning to take the lead.

The hit parade continued from Saturday night’s game, when Brewster recorded a season-high 19 hits in an 11-0 bludgeoning of first-place Wareham.

After Forbes worked through the side in order, striking out two batters looking in the process, the Whitecaps offense rolled on. A walk from Macias brought Ryder Helfrick (Arkansas) to the plate with no outs. Helfrick hammered a 1-0 pitch to left field for a two-run shot, notching his third straight game with a home run and a Cape Cod Baseball-leading ninth of the summer.

While Helfrick raked, Forbes found his groove and ran with it. From the second out of the opening frame to the top of the fifth, the righty retired 11 straight batters. His fastball was effective, but it was his slider that kept batters off balance, as he struck out four batters looking. Forbes finished the day with nine strikeouts, not allowing a hit after Rose’s home run in the first inning.

“I really just try to go out there and compete and give it my all and my best for however long I’m out there,” Forbes said. “If I'm rolling then I’ll keep on going.”

Meanwhile, the Whitecaps offense added on. Helfrick, Cuvet and Dumesnil loaded the bases with two walks and a single sandwiched in between to start the bottom of the fourth. The offense prompted Falmouth to replace starter Matthew Dallas (Tennessee) with Francis Ferguson (Eastern Nazarene).

On the first pitch he saw against Ferguson, Faurot ripped a double down the right field line, scoring all three runners and extending the lead to six. Faurot started slow for Brewster but has been hot of late, totaling five hits in the last two games after a three-hit night against Wareham.

Falmouth’s offense didn’t go away easily and forced Forbes out of the game after he walked two of the first three batters in the fifth. Luke Schmolke (Wake Forest) entered the game with two of Forbes’ runners on base and allowed a three-run home run to the first batter he faced, scoring two of Forbes’ runs and making it a three-run game.

Schmolke allowed another hit on a double to right field but got out of the jam without allowing another run. In the next inning, Schmolke ran into more trouble, allowing three hits and a run before being pulled for fellow Demon Deacon Zach Johnston. The left-hander allowed two more runs, cutting Brewster’s once-8-2 lead to 10-8.

Luckily for Brewster, before allowing a three-spot in the sixth, the top of its order got two runs in the bottom of the fifth as Macias and Helfrick scored on a single from Kent. Macias was inserted into the leadoff spot on July 11 and in the four games since then, he’s reached base in 11 of his 19 plate appearances.

“Right now it's working,” Shevchik said of Macias in the leadoff spot. “He's in there, he's producing. And we've got the guys in the middle of the order to drive him in.”

Johnston retired five straight across the sixth and seventh innings, preserving the lead. In the eighth, he allowed a leadoff walk but didn’t allow the runner to get past second base. Though the Whitecaps offense went silent from the sixth inning on, the pitching closed the door on Falmouth.

Will Ray (Wake Forest) entered for the save and struck out the side with ease, giving Brewster its second win in a row on another day filled with explosive offense.

“We’re really working the counts well. We're putting ourselves in a position to kind of roll out 10 hits," Shevchik said.

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