Red Sox right-hander Ramsey David (Southeastern, FL) dazzled with one run over four innings and Phoenix Call had his first career Cape League home run to power Yarmouth-Dennis, 5-3, over Brewster on Monday at Stony Brook Field.
Call’s first extra base hit of the season and first collegiate home run flew over the wall in left field in the top of the eighth inning and gave the Red Sox a pair of late inning insurance runs. Call was 2-for-4 with two RBI with the two-run, two-out blast.
The Red Sox played its eighth game decided by three runs or fewer and picked up their second win over the Eastern Division foe as Y-D won its third game in a row with five innings and two runs allowed from its bullpen to go 7-2 while Brewster dropped to 3-6.
David struck out the side in the bottom of the first en route to a season-high five strikeouts over four innings and one run allowed in his second start of the summer. The former Arizona Diamondbacks draft pick displayed his arsenal with a 99 mph fastball that carried effective run in the upper third of the zone and a breaking ball that consistently sat in the upper-80s.
David danced around at least one runner reaching base in each of his four innings and escaped the first three frames unscathed despite having runners on the corners and one out in the bottom of the second inning.
Brewster left-hander Rocco Reid (Clemson) got his second start of the season after allowing seven runs over 1 ⅓ innings against Falmouth on June. 18. After allowing two runs in the first, Rocco retired the next nine of 11 hitters he faced and allowed two earned runs - three total - over five innings with three strikeouts.
It was a fast start for the Red Sox who had runners on second and third with no outs in the top of the first after a double steal from outfielder Drew Burress (Georgia Tech) and second baseman Call. Back-to-back RBI groundouts from Easton Carmichael (Oklahoma) and Anthony Martinez (UC Irvine) gave Y-D a 2-0 lead.
Brewster was held scoreless until the bottom of the fourth as singles from Daniel Cuvet (Miami) and Jayden Hylton (Stetson) were followed by a two-out sacrifice fly from Chase Mora (Texas State) who cut Y-D’s lead in half to 2-1.
Designated hitter Jackson Chirello (Kennesaw State) had a one-out triple to the left-center field gap for his first extra-base hit of the summer and scored moments later after a sacrifice fly from Cameron Kim (UCLA) extended the Red Sox lead to 3-1 in the top of the fifth.
Right-hander Aiden Moffett (Transfer Portal) made his Red Sox debut with a scoreless fifth inning and Bryan Peck (Westmont) dealt a pair of scoreless frames in the sixth and seventh to maintain Y-D’s two-run advantage.
Burress and Call continued to cause damage in the eighth as a two-out single from the former was followed by Call’s home run which put Y-D ahead 5-1. The Whitecaps responded in the bottom half with their lone run off Peck during his 2 2/3 innings.
Right-hander Toran O’Harran (Stanford) entered to record the final out in the eighth and got the first out in the ninth before bringing the tying-run to the plate. Right-hander Trevor Moore (Stanford) faced runners on second and third with two outs and struck out Nolan Schubart to get his league leading fourth save.
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