Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Bafunno's single gives Crestwood walk-off comeback victory over Tunkhannock

The Tunkhannock Tigers traveled to Mountain Top's Veterans Field on Wednesday afternoon to take on the Crestwood Comets. The Tigers are coming off an extra innings loss to Hazleton Area. The Comets are coming off a loss on the road to Dallas. The Tigers went to Shane Wood to start on the mound. Colby Jones got the start for the Comets on the mound.
 Tyler Faux would lead off with a walk and would be out on a fielder's choice by Bill Dziak. Dylan Mislevy would then single and David Baltrusiatis would draw a walk to load the bases. Nick Reposa would hit a single to score Dziak and Mislevy for a 2-0 Tigers lead. Back-to-back groundouts would end the top of the first. Wood would throw a 1-2-3 bottom of the first for Tunkhannock. Jones would throw a 1-2-3 top of the second. Mick Bafunno would draw a walk to lead off the inning and would go to second on a stolen base and go to third on a groundout with one out but a strikeout and a groundout would end the inning to keep the Comets off the scoreboard. Dziak would reach on a single to lead off the top of the third. After a popout, Baltrusaitis would hit a two run home run to left for a 4-0 Tigers lead. A flyout and a groundout would end the top of the third. Wood would throw another 1-2-3 inning in the third inning. Wood would hit a single and Matt Dean would come in to pitch for the Comets. Dean would get a strikeout, a caught stealing and a groundout to end the top of the fourth. Wood would throw his third 1-2-3 inning in the fourth. Tyler Faux would hit a single but a 6-4-3 double play and a flyout would end the inning. Derek Petrochko would lead off with a single for the Comets' first hit of the game. Petrochko would be lifted for a pinch runner in Zack Andrews. Brad Papura would reach on an error to move Andrews to third. Andrews would score on a fielder's choice by Stew Caladie to cut the lead to 4-1 and to get the Comets on the board. A strikeout and a groundout would end the fifth. Reposa would draw a one out walk but back to back strikeouts would end the top of the sixth. Matt Dean would hit a two out single and Bafunno would draw a walk and both would advance on a wild pitch and would intentionally walk Petrochko. Papura would walk in a run to make it 4-2. Bafunno would score on a wild pitch to make it 4-3. Tunkhannock would go to CJ Wright in relief. Caladie would bring home Petrochko to tie the game at 4. The Tigers would get out of the inning thanks to a diving catch by Denny Robinson to end the sixth. Robinson would lead off the top of the seventh with a double to left, after a strikeout, Faux would single and Robinson would score to make it 5-4 Tigers. Faux would be out trying to advance to second. A strikeout would end the top of the seventh. Adam Litchkofski would hit a two out single then Dean would reach on an error that moved Litchkofski to third. He would score on a wild pitch to tie the game at 5 and courtesy runner Chris Ferracio would move to second. Ferracio would go to third on another wild pitch and then Mick Bafunno would hit a ground ball to short and would beat it out to score Ferracio as the Comets would take a 6-5 victory over Tunkhannock.

Thoughts on the game: What a comeback by the Crestwood Comets. Down 4-0 with a pitcher throwing a no-hitter through four innings. Matt Dean had a great game on the mound and at the plate. On the mound, he went four innings in the relief, giving up one run, striking out five and walking one. At the plate, he started the rally in the sixth with a single that would tie the game up. Stew Caladie also had a good game with 2 RBIs on the day. For Tunkhannock, David Baltrusaitis had a great game with a two run home run as did Nick Reposa who started the scoring with a two RBI single.

Crestwood 6 Tunkhannock 5
Tunkhannock 2 0 2 0 0 0 1 5
Crestwood 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 6

Tunkhannock
SS Faux 3 0 2 0
3B Dziak 4 2 1 0
1B Mislevy 3 1 1 0
RF Baltrusaitis 2 1 1 2
CF Reposa 2 0 1 2
C Sheridan 2 0 0 0
PH Cisek 1 0 0 0
P Wood 3 0 1 0
P Wright 0 0 0 0
P Sherwood 0 0 0 0
LF Robinson 3 1 1 0
RF Sackman 2 0 0 0
PH Astegher 1 0 0 0

2B: Robinson
HR: Baltrusaitis

Crestwood
CF Ambosie 4 0 0 0
SS Palmiero 3 0 0 0
SS Litchkofski 1 1 1 0
3B/P Dean 4 2 1 0
LF Bafunno 2 1 1 1
P Jones 0 0 0 0
3B Albee 0 0 0 0
DH Petrochko 2 1 1 0
DH Andrews 0 1 0 0
2B Papura 2 0 0 1
PR Bukowski 0 0 0 0
C Geroski 3 0 0 0
RF Mendoza 3 0 0 0

Pitching
Tunkhannock
Wood 5.2 IP 24 BF 4 R 4 ER 2 H 4 K 4 BB
Wright 0.1 IP 2 BF 0 R 0 ER 1 H 0 K 0 BB
Sherwood (L) 0.2 IP 5 BF 2 R 0 ER 2 H 1 K 0 BB

Crestwood
Jones 3+ IP 16 BF 4 R 4 ER 5 H 2 K 2 BB
Dean (W) 4 IP 13 BF 1 R 1 ER 3 H 5 K 1 BB

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