After an electric win at home, the Commodores looked to keep the good times rolling by knocking off the top team on the Cape in the Y-D Red Sox.

Unfortunately, they’d have their momentum halted at Red Wilson Field, as Y-D withstood an early first inning offensive barrage to seize control of the game and eventually grab the win, 6-2.

Falmouth (4-4-1) carried over some magic from its walk-off Sunday night victory and sprinkled it directly into the top of the first, stringing together three straight base knocks to rattle Peter Dubie (Brown): a bunt single from Fabio Peralta (Miami), sandwiched between doubles from Austin Mallee (formerly Gateway, in transfer portal) and Riley Jackson (Kentucky).

Peralta after the game credited the early rally to head coach Jack Dahm, who called for the bunt to put runners on the corners at the start of Tuesday’s contest.

“Coach tells me to try to lay it down,” he recalled before heading to the plate. “I know I could bunt for a hit, so I was gonna try to bunt for a hit [on the] first pitch. I got it down perfectly, I executed it…it was a win-win for all of us.”

Jackon’s double and Jimmy Nugent’s (Louisville) grounder both drove in runs to put the Commodores up 2-0 early.

“That's the way that we need to play,” said Coach Dahm after the game. “That was the gameplan we had with the wind blowing in…We need to do the little things to score runs and be unselfish.”

But the early Commodore surge was overmatched by Y-D (8-1), as it found a run in the bottom of the first, two in the third and two in the fourth to pull ahead.

A Jake Souders (Samford) line drive off the glove of Ryder Woodson (Mississippi State) gave the Red Sox a spark. After a walk, a base hit and a hit batter, Woodson crossed home plate to cut the Falmouth lead in half.

The one-run Commodore advantage vanished when Ethan Ball (Virginia Tech) came across on an RBI single from Avery Ortiz (Oklahoma State). Brady Dallimore (TCU) followed up with one of his own to put the Red Sox up 3-2.

Groundouts from Souders and Ball drove in Kevin Takeuchi (USC) and Ty Mainolfi (Boston College) in the fourth, making it 5-2 Y-D. Earlier in the frame, Takeuchi walked and Mainolfi followed up with a double.

The common denominator between those innings was the ‘Dores allowing the leadoff man on – a theme that bugged Coach Dahm on Tuesday, saying “we walked the leadoff guy five out of six times. That's what helped them. We outhit them, and we lost by five…If we limit those walks, [we] probably have really good outings”

Y-D threatened to break things open in the sixth, as the bottom third of its order loaded the bases to start the inning. With the 'Dores’ backs against the wall, Tyler Guerin (Georgia Tech) and their defense remain unfazed. Guerin punched out Souders before inducing a fly ball to center that Fabio Peralta (Miami), Ty Kaunas (Texas Tech) and Pearson Riebock (Baylor) turned into an 8-6-4 double play, limiting the damage to one.

Peralta read the play as the ball went up into the air to make the right play.

“My ball was hit pretty deep, so I know I'm not gonna have a chance to throw a guy out at the plate, so I tried to throw it into the cutoff as hard as possible. He'd get the guy from second to go to third, and indeed, all the guys ended up tagging and we got the guy out of second.”

The heads up play appeared to have rejuvenated the Commodores, but with two outs in the top of the seventh, the game was called due to darkness, and Y-D took the victory.

Despite the loss, Peralta felt that his Commodores felt that they played at a high level to start the contest, saying “[in the] first inning I think we were doing the little things right and of course, that plays into winning baseball.”

Coach Dahm shares the same sentiment.

“Austin Mallee’s been on fire. Let him get on and then move him over and have the middle of the order guys drive him in. That’s just good, solid baseball. That’s what [Y-D] did today…They executed better than we did.”

The Commodores return home June 23 to host Chatham in an interdivisional rematch, just four days after the teams’ first meeting. First pitch from Guv Fuller Field will be at 6 p.m.