BREWSTER, Mass. — It certainly didn’t take as long as the day before.

After withstanding being shut out for 8.1 innings by the Wareham Gatemen prior to Michael Torres’ (Miami) walk-off walk on Thursday, the Brewster Whitecaps faithful at Stony Brook Field were treated to offense early and often against the Orleans Firebirds.

Brewster (22-8-3) first struck in the second inning, with first baseman Dane Harvey (Ohio State), who returned to the lineup on Wednesday after departing before the MLB Draft, crossing the plate. Five more runs followed throughout the affair, giving the Whitecaps a well-rounded 6-3 victory over Orleans (10-22) that was powered by a lineup of almost entirely new faces.

“There was only two people on the field that were here five days ago,” Whitecaps manager Jamie Shevchik said. “If that’s not the Cape Cod League baseball, then I don’t know what is. … Today was a let's get them all out there and see what we’ve got day.”

Of all the fresh bodies, Harvey’s the outlier. The Buckeye appeared in 19 games for the Whitecaps between opening day and his July 9 departure, and made a promise to Shevchik that if he were to go undrafted, he would return to the team.

He fulfilled that promise on Wednesday, but as he stepped into the batter’s box for his first at-bat Friday afternoon, he hadn’t yet recorded a welcome-back knock.

Harvey made quick work to change that, sending the second pitch he saw out to center field and over the head of his former Whitecaps teammate and good friend Adam Magpoc (San Diego State), who made the rare mid-season jump to another CCBL team.

Harvey put on the brakes as he got to second, recording his first of two doubles on the day, upping his season total to three and raising his OPS from .644 to just south of .700 at .695.

“They were much needed,” Harvey said. “Coming off a break and coming back, struggling a little bit before I left, it was good to get. It’s good for the mind.”

In Shevchik’s 12 years at the helm of the Whitecaps, he’s only had two players return to the team the same summer they departed. Zach Neto, the Los Angeles Angels starting shortstop, is one of them, putting Harvey in elite company.

“For Dane to do that, that puts him a category all on his own,” Shevchik said. “We get some good karma for that.”

The club will soon grow again, however, as infielder Jake Lambdin (Duke) is set to rejoin the team before the end of the season, having already appeared in 21 games.

Lambdin and Harvey will be two rare members of the old guard, with a cast of truly new teammates jockeying to make an impact.

Right fielder Adam Haight (Oregon State) is part of that group. He joined the roster ahead of Monday’s action against the Falmouth Commodores and played a key role in the Whitecaps jumping ahead early on Friday.

After Harvey’s first double, Haight laid down a sacrifice bunt on his own volition, moving Harvey to third and putting him in position to scamper home on a wild pitch later in the frame — a wild pitch was also how Harvey scored after his third-inning double, which led to left fielder Brodie DeLamielleure (Florida State) scoring on a throwing error.

“That (bunt) screams to me of a kid that wants to win a game,” Shevchik said. “Most kids will think of batting average right there or their numbers — he laid down on his own without getting a signal, and that tells me the kid wants to win.”

Haight was just one of a handful of new Whitecaps to play a key role in the win, however. Center fielder Tryston McCladdie (Clemson) made a diving grab in the outfield, second baseman Will Baker (Georgia Tech) recorded an RBI double and an RBI single, shortstop Conner Cunningham (Murray State) scored on the latter after recording his first single with the team and third baseman Dylan Schlotterback (Kansas) went 2-for-3 with a walk in his debut.

The old dogs pulled out tricks too, with catcher Jacob Lee (Virginia Commonwealth), who’s been behind the dish since opening day, launching his CCBL lead-tying sixth home run of the year 426 feet to left field and over the scoreboard. The screamer left his bat at 105 MPH.

The blast was Lee’s first since July 10, and came in his first start in three days after recovering from feeling unwell.

“Today I felt normal,” Lee said. “It was good to be back. Body’s a little loose, body’s a little recovered.”

Lee had a front row seat behind the dish for one of the most tense moments of Friday’s action as the Whitecaps found themselves in a two-out, bases-loaded predicament in the top of the ninth.

The Firebirds had already scratched off a run against Whitecaps right-handed reliever Luke Wiltrakis (Arizona State) and were in position to cause even more chaos. Lee wasn’t worried, however, as his pitcher had the favorable right-on-right matchup against first baseman Shaun McMillan (St. John’s).

Wiltrakis was able to take advantage, punching out his opponent on three pitches.

“There’s always going to be pressure in a situation like that,” Lee said. “But it’s wood bats, and it’s really hard to hit a homer. I had a lot of confidence in Luke there to get that hitter out.”

Wiltrakis was the last of four pitchers to toe the rubber for the Whitecaps after a three-inning start from fellow righty James DeCremer (Arkansas), who was making his first of the summer.

It was that fact that limited DeCremer to only a third of the game despite allowing just three base runners, no earned runs and striking out five on 50 pitches.

“We want to extend his pitch count next outing and then see where he is in the playoffs,” Shevchik said.

The pitching rotation is the Whitecaps' biggest question mark as the postseason approaches, with trusted starts like LHP Payton Manca (Florida State) and RHP Charlie Willcox (Ole Miss) having departed the team in the past week.

The lineup, on some level, appears to have figured itself out, with new bats plugging into existing holes and impressing early.

Shevchik mentioned that a luxury of having already clinched a playoff spot is that he can toy around with different lineups to figure out how to utilize everyone best as he attempts to improve on the formula — although that could be a difficult task after Friday’s trial. No matter what one through nine ends up looking like on August 4, Shevchik knows that there will be talent at the plate.

“We did a really good job of bringing in some players that play at a high level,” Shevchik said. “I think we’re in a really good spot.”