2022 Box Scores

Philly	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
Rhines	6	3	1	1	Devenish – MF	5	2	1	3
Margist	6	5	0	1	Dias – RS	5	4	0	0
T. Rodriguez	6	2	2	2	Zuccarello- LS/1B	5	0	0	2
S. Hogwood	5	2	0	1	Cantan- 1B/R	5	2	0	1
D. Hogwood	5	2	3	0	Crook – 3B	5	2	1	2
C. Krause	5	1	4	9	Soto – DH	2	1	1	—
					Sanchez DH	3	1	0	—
					Kimball – DF/R	—	—	—	0

Totals	33	15	10	14	Totals	30	12	3	8
Pitcher – P. Krause					Pitcher – Cochran	15	6	2
					Pitcher – Connolly	15	6	1
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Lenicheck
					RS Caller – Connolly

Game Summary

Game one of the 2022 season. The Philly Fire were playing in their third tournament of the season while the Renegades were playing for the first time. Boston entered this game with some question marks to be figured out. Most importantly, this may have been the very first game the Renegades played in team history without a person named Joe on the roster. Joe McCormick and Joe Yee were both left home due to a wedding and COVID. Ron Cochran was also very sparse through the spring with other commitments taking priority. Boston had a lot of talent and it was time to see what work was needed and what work was paying off. It was time to put people into new roles and see how they would perform on both the player and coaching staff.

For the Renegades, Boston would have Jason Lenicheck calling the left side and Peter Connolly calling the right side, Just Peter’s 3rd game calling in his career. Offensively, Cochran and Connolly would split the starting lineup. Cochran would have the 1-2-3 hitters in Devenish, Dias and Zuccarello. Connolly would face the 4-5-6 hitters in Cantan, Crook and Soto. Defensively, Chris Kimball would get the call for his first start as the defensive fielder as the team had confidence in his defense progression.

The Fire had “won” the beast of the East in 2021. The Rules of the Beast of the East state the teams should be comprised of players from the East coast. In 2021, because the tournament was held in the fall and the Titans decided they could not make it with just a few week’s notice, the Fire won the games with half their roster coming from the Titans as they got help from Hogwood, Zach Turner and Marvin Morgan. They also flew in a player from Arizona. This was agreed upon before it happened because of the timing and Titans decision. This game today- was all FIRE!

Could Boston shake off the rust and compete out of the gate against a team that was much improved? We knew Pat Krause was a solid pitcher. Casey Krause was a stud on defense and killed us on offense in 2021. Scott Hogwood, a huge bat returned to the team. They also got Tyler Rodriguez who moved to the area from Indy. They were a deeper and more experienced team than in the past. A lot would be told about this Renegade team by the way they played this game.

Justin Rhines led off the game in this sunny day in East Meadow. With three strikes, he hit a grounder up the middle. Devenish charged it but came up empty as it rolled by him and Rhines scored. John Margist then hit a short high fly ball to the left side on three strikes, Zuccarello had to wait for it to land to charge it. He could not get the ball in time as Margist scored running to first base. Tyler Rodriguez then made his Philly Debut after playing for years for the Indy Thunder and Chicago Comets. Again, with three strikes, The Fire made contact. This time Tyler blasted a shot into left field which Drew Crook came nowhere near close to fielding. Scott Hogwood was batting fourth in this game and on a full count lofted a short fly ball to the left side. Zuccarello was a split second slow to the ball and Philly had 4 straight runs. Scott’s daughter, Dakota then took the count to a full count herself and hit a line drive up the middle of the field. Devenish charged this ball and that effort cost him as it rolled by him and the Fire had five runs in a row as the Hogwood father/Daughter combo went back-to-back for possible one of the first times ever. Casey Krause was next, and he scorched Boston in 2021. Hitting off his dad, Pat Krause – one of the most exciting new pitchers in the sport, he struck out on 4 pitches. Rhines came up for a second time and hit the first pitch of his second at bat to the right side on a line drive. Shayne Cantan was there to make a nice stop for the second out of the inning and the first defensive stop of the 2022 season. John Margist next lofted a fly ball up the middle of the field on a full count. This time Devenish did not charge, he slid to his left and made a stop as Boston’s second line of defense was starting to figure out the grass, They dug a hole and were down 5-0 after the Philly start.

Shawn Devenish, would get the nod to bat lead-off for the first time in his career. He earned that after his great 2019 World Series in which he hit over .700 and was named to a league all-star team. Devenish would follow the pattern of the fire get to a 3 strike count. He then hit a grounder to the left side where Casey Krause stopped him with ease. Rob Dias was next and on the 5th pitch of the at-bat, hit a grounder up the right side. That ball squirted past Dakota Hogwood in the second layer and Dias had the first Renegade run of 2022. Guy then broke the streak and actually hit the first pitch of the at bat up the right side. Tyler Rodriguez was there to make the stop for Philly. Connolly came to the mound as Cantan came to the plate and back to the trend of this game, took the count to three strikes. He then laced a line drive into center field for Boston’s second run of the game. This brought Drew Crook to the plate. Drew lofted the 3rd pitch he saw on a short pop fly to the middle of the field. Krause made the play with plenty of time. After one full inning, Boston was down 5-2.

The second inning would start better for Boston. Tyler started things off with a strike out. That brought Scott Hogwood to the plate and he hit a grounder down the third baseline. Crook tracked the ball, over ran it and then located it as he made the very first defensive stop of his career. Dakota struck out to book end the inning in K’s as the Renegades were able to escape 1-2-3.

Luis Soto earned the start and would lead off the second inning for Boston. He had a strong 2021 season and was having some of the best batting practice sessions in Renegade practice. Sadly, he struck out on 4 pitches and just one foul ball. Cochran came to the mound to face Devenish, Shawn hit a fly ball up the middle of the field by a diving Margist for the third run of the game for Boston. Rob Dias then got the Renegades 2nd one pitch at bat , hitting a flare to the right side for his second run of the game and 4th run for the Renegades. Zuccarello next hit a hard grounder past Krause and John Margist made a very nice diving play to his right for the out. This brought Shayne Cantan to the plate and he hit a grounder up the middle and was called safe. However, Shayne ran inside the first base bag and missed it. After talking the play over, Cantan was ruled out and the tying run was taken off the board. After two innings, Philly led 5-4.

Casey Krause, who had 2 stop on defense could not get things going as he struck out for the second time to start off the third inning. Justin Rhines delivered a room service dribbler right at Guy Zuccarello on the left side for the second out of the inning. Margist then made contact early in the count and hit a line shot into right field and beat Chris Kimball to the base breaking a streak of 8 Philly outs in a row. On yet another full count, Tyler Rodriguez then hit a high fly to the 40 foot arc. By the time the ball landed, Tyler was more than half way to the base and Zuccarello was not quick enough to get the ball up. Scott Hogwood then hit a hard grounder to the left side. Crook over ran the ball running to his right and then came back to make the play for his second stop on Hogwood and his second career defensive stop. Philly led 7-4.

Strange how often it happens, but after making a nice play in the field, Crook would lead off. Crook would hit the second pitch he saw up the middle by everyone and would score easily, even after missing first base. However, the umpire felt the ball nicked Connolly’s glove on its way past him and the run was taken off the board. Crook took the count to the 7th pitch of the at bat before hitting a dribbler off the bottom of his bat for room service to Krause. Luis Soto then hit a grounder up the left side into the thick of the Fire defense and ran to first, he was called safe, much to the dismay of the Fire defense who contested the call from the field to no avail. After a Devenish whiff, Dias stayed hot. For the 2nd straight time, he hit the first pitch of the at bat past everyone on the right side and had his third run of the game. Zuccarello would make contact again, this time, hitting the ball to Krause and for the third time would be out, making three different defensive players stop him. Philly led 7-6 after three full innings, but the momentum was pointing to Boston, especially after that horrific start to the game.

The 4th started badly for Philly as the strike outs were starting to mount. Dakota Hogwood and Krause struck out, giving the fire 6 strike outs in the game. Rhines would end that pattern on a weak grounder up the middle. Zuccarello picked the ball up and lost a bang-bang play to Rhines as he flew to first base for his second run of the game. Margist hit another shot into the third layer of the defense, Kimball came up empty and Margist had his third run of the game. Tyler Rodriguez whiffed to end the frame. Philly led 9-6 heading to the bottom of the fourth.

Shayne, Looking to atone for his bad base running earlier, hit a pop fly up the middle of the field. Margist could not get it up in time and Cantan had his second run of the game. Crook then hit a hard grounder by everyone into deep right field to pull the Renegades within one run. David Sanchez became the first Renegade off the bench, as he was called on to hit for Soto. Connolly stayed on to pitch to him. Sticking to the theme of this game, Sanchez would swing and miss three straight times before hitting a grounder down the third baseline. Krause flew over and angled backwards to make the play as Sanchez had a bad line to third base. Devenish then hit a weak ball that barely made contact with his bat. the ball died on the 40 foot arc and Devenish raced to first before Krause or Rodriguez could get near the ball. This tied the game up at nine. Red hot, Rob Dias found the first pitch for the third straight time and hit a weak flare to the right side which Tyler Rodriguez had no time to make a play on, Boston had its first lead of the 2022 season, 10-9. Zuccarello then hit a line drive that hit Casey Krause as he dove at it, the ball got by Casey and died between him and Margist. Guy was called safe but Philly contested the call, as things started to get heated. The call was overturned. Shayne was then stopped after hitting a hard grounder, which Krause made a nice stop on diving toward his left for his 7th stop of the game. Boston led 10-9 after four innings.

In the 5^th. Scott Hogwood and Pat Krause changed the timing on Hogwood, he avoided Crook and hit a grounder up the middle, this time, Devenish held his ground and made the stop to start the inning. Dakota struck out for the third time in the game. This brought Casey Krause to the plate, who had struck out three straight times. He hit a weak grounder to the right side, Boston was testing a new defensive shift, and Krause found a hole in it. Dias was frozen, Zuccarello was frozen and Krause had too much speed and scored with ease to tie the game up. Rhines struck out to end the inning in a tie game.

Drew Crook came to the plate for the 4th time (giving him twice as many at bats than in the entire 2021 season) but he and Connolly struggled and Crook was down on strikes, for just the third Renegade whiff of the game. Sanchez was next off Connolly. He laced a shot to right field that sent Dakota running backwards, she never had a chance as the ball rolled well past 170 and gave Boston an 11-10 lead. Devenish would hit a weak grounder to Krause’s right and Krause had his 8th stop. For five consecutive pitches, Dias laced a line drive into left. Rhines would make a play on the ball and Dias would be called safe as he hit first base. Philly contested again and tempers soared. The call was reversed again. The Philly players were yelling at Cochran and things were getting a little out of hand. Sadly, the Long Island tournament had one umpire on the field, this 70+ year old volunteer had been working these games for years alone without a field spotter. He was put in a tough spot with two highly competitive teams without having anyone else to help him in the field. Boston led 11-10 heading into the 6th inning.

Cochran may have poked the bear during that argument, as Philly seemed to have some life back in them. Captain Margist hit a grounder to the left side. Crook over ran it again, but this time did not have time to make the play and Philly had tied the game. Tyler Rodriguez hit a fly ball up the middle of the field and staying on his knees trapped the ball in his gut on the 2nd bounce for the first out of the inning and his third of the game. Hogwood hit a slow fly ball to left. Crook hit the ground and bobbled it as Hogwood slid head first into third base. Philly was back in the lead 12-11. Dakota hit what may have been the back breaker. This time, she hit it into the Bermuda triangle, Zuccarello and Dias both dove and come up short and the ball died before getting to Devenish. Shawn was slow to come up and Dakota scored with ease with her second run of the game. Boston had a chance to be out of the inning, but the defense had a let-down moment. Krause struck out for the 4th time for the second out of the inning which could have been the end of the 6th. However, with the Dakota run, they turned over the order. Rhines made the Renegades pay, hitting a grounder that got past Zuccarello and Crook could not pick up in time. Margist stayed hot, with a grounder down the left side. Zuccarello angled back to the base to make the play, but he was a half second slower than Margist and John had a five run game and had given Philly a 15-11 lead. Tyler Rodriguez then lofted another high fly to Zuccarello. This time, Guy was super aggressive and slid into it to make the play and end the inning. Philly led 15-11. Ten of the fires 15 runs came in the first and 6th innings.

Gut check time for the Renegades. Zuccarello was leading off the inning. On the first pitch, he went to the right side but Rodriguez made the play with plenty of time for his second stop of the game. Cantan hit a dribbler to the coffin corner and Krause stopped him with two steps before he hit the bag for his 9th run of the game. Crook then hit a grounder down the left side, Krause ran after it and never slid, running into foul territory and “stop” was called as the slim, speedy and wiry Krause was about to collide with the biggest player in Renegade history. That would have been a bad collision and it was avoided as Crook was awarded the run. Sanchez hit a fly ball up the middle of the field and Scott Hogwood made a nice play to end the game. Philly won 15-12

It was not the start the Renegades were looking for. But the message was this team competed. The defense had a rough start spotting the Fire five runs. Some bad base running, some contested calls that could have gone either way, a run that was taken away because a ball was claimed to have nicked a pitchers glove. There was a lot to unpack in this game. Boston competed without Joe McCormick and Joe Yee. there was a lot to like as Boston only struck out three times (compared to 10 for Philly). Rob Dias was hitting the ball well. Shayne Cantan, David Sanchez, Drew Crook and Luis Soto all showed some promise and had a chance to play in a tight game. The message for Boston was keep pressing and working. These two teams looked like they had a chance to do damage at the World Series. This game could have gone either way and both teams knew it. It would surely set the stage for some other great games later in the year.

Game #2 – Boston takes down the Bombers 17-6 in a 12 run game

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	6	3	1	7	x	x	17	3	8
Long Island	1	1	1	1	1	1	6	10	9

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Long Island	AB	R	K	PO
Devenish – MF	3	2	0	2	j. Dejesus	3	2	1	0
– Soto- R	2	1	0	0	– Agnone	1	1	0	0
Dias – RS/MF	4	3	0	0	Barrera – DH	4	0	4	1
– I. Rodriguez – PH	1	0	0		Fink – DF	—	—	—	3
– Cantan – MF	0	0	0	0	Suarez	2	1	0	0
Cantan – 1B	1	1	0	—	– Thorne	2	1	1	0
– Regan – 1B	4	1	0	0	Weeks	2	0	0	0
Sanchez – DH	2	2	0	—	-J. Esposito	2	1	1	0
– Thayer – DH	3	2	0	—	Bahn	4	0	1	3
L. Rodriguez – DF/3B	—	—	—	1	Puvogel	2	0	1	2
Zuccarello- LS	5	2	2	4	– Erickson	2	0	1	0
Kimball- R/RS	4	3	1	1

Totals	29	17	3	8	Totals	24	6	10	9
Pitcher — Cochran	23	13	3		Pitcher – Sciortino	15	5	5
Pitcher – Connolly	6	4	0		Pitcher- Schulman	9	1	5
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller– Lenicheck
RS Caller-Connolly

Game Summary

After a tough loss in which the Renegades fought hard against a tough opponent, the Renegades packed up the gear and trekked across the field to take on the Long Island Bombers, a team which used to own the Renegades. Boston lost 7 straight games to Long Island between 2002-2007 before they turned things around. Since that streak, Boston has won 27 games and lost 4 contests, with the last loss coming in 2012, a 20 game win streak.

Defensively, Jason Lenicheck and Peter Connolly would call the defense. Ron Cochran would face the 1/2/5/6 hitters in Devenish, Dias, Zuccarello and Kimball. Peter Connolly would get the 3/4 hitters in Shayne Cantan and David Sanchez.

Boston would hit first and get things started right away on the first pitch of the game. Shawn Devenish hit a grounder to the right side, missed third base but had plenty of time to come back and score. Rob Dias then hit the 2nd pitch on a fly to the right side and just beat Matt Puvogel on a bang-bang play. Cantan, the three hitter, rocked the third pitch off Connolly up the middle by everyone for the third straight run for Boston. Sanchez made it four straight when he found contact on the first pitch, hitting a grounder up the middle. Zuccarello would not be as lucky as he hit a grounder to Puvogel who made a nice play for the first stop of the inning. Chris Kimball got his third offensive start of his career and on the 2nd pitch against Cochran, laced a line drive into left field for the 5th run of the inning. This turned the lineup back to Devenish. Shawn hit a hard shot up the middle of the field, where Meghan Fink was there to make the stop. Fink, a Renegade killer who often puts McCormick out turned her attention to Devenish. Dias would work the count to three strikes for the first time of the inning. He would hit another hard ball up the middle, Fink could not get this in time and Boston had six runs. At this point, Weissman went to the bench and off came Elana Regan to hit for Cantan against Ron Cochran. She hit a fly ball up the middle of the field, but Fink was able to make her second stop of the inning.

Long Island finally got to the plate, but faced a tough hill to climb, down 6-0. Joe DeJesus would start things off for Long Island off their long time pitcher, James Sciortino. With the Renegade defense in a fierce shift, DeJesus went down the third baseline trying to beat the shift. Luis Rodriguez was all alone on an island, he chased backwards after it, but DeJesus was a step quicker and scored to give Long Island their first run of the game. After an Alex Barrera strike out, Boston took a collective breathe. This brought newcomer, Alvin Suarez to the dish. Suarez joined the Bombers during the 2021 season and was splitting time playing for them and the Indy Edge. He hit a grounder up the middle and Shawn Devenish made a nice play for the 2nd out of the inning. Robert Weeks would end the inning with a grounder to the left side which Luis Rodriguez stopped. Boston led 6-1 after one inning.

David Sanchez led off the second with a fly ball up the middle and scored with ease at first base to start things off. Zuccarello could not get going as he swung and missed on 4 straight pitches. Chris Kimball’s confidence grew as he legged out a bang-bang play on a ground ball and raced to first base. Devenish plated his second run of the inning next on a weak grounder to the left side that froze Casey Bahn in the front of the Bomber defense. Dias hit a flare to the right side, Puvogel made the stop right before Dias tagged first base. Elana Regan came back to the plate and hit a lazy line drive right to Casey Bahn’s feet who made the play with ease. After one and a half innings, Boston led 9-1 and thoughts of a 12 run rule game were in the minds of the Renegades as the mind of coach Weissman started to whirl on how he could get his players into the game.

Long Island would lead off the second inning with their two front guys on defense hitting in the 5/6 slots. Casey Bahn started by hitting a grounder up the middle, Zuccarello dove to his left and came up empty, Devenish came a long way to his right and made a nice play for his second stop in the contest. Matt Puvogel grounded a ball to the left side, Zuccarello laid out and made the stop shuffling on the ground to his right. Joe DeJesus came back to the plate as Weissman challenged him to try to go against the shift again. This time, Joe hit a hard grounder up the middle past Devenish for the second run of the contest for Long Island. Barrera would strike out for the second time to end the inning. After two innings, Boston had a 7 run lead 9-2.

Weissman went to the bench and brought Rob Thayer into the game to hit for Sanchez in the third. Against Cochran, he hit a fly ball up the middle and Fink stopped him with ease, for her third stop of the game. Zuccarello, hungry for a run, hit one up the right middle of the field and Guy beat out a bang-bang play running to third. Kimball would strike out on 4 straight swing and misses. Luis Soto came off the bench to hit for Devenish against Peter Connolly. He hit a room service dribbler right to Casey Bahn. After two and a half, Boston had a commanding 10-2 lead.

The changes would cause the Renegades to move around on defense. Luis Soto went to play rover as Rob Dias moved to the mid field spot and Chris Kimball came into play the right front slot. Alvin Suarez laced a shot into left field that Luis Rodriguez chased back for and Luis Soto also could not find as the Bombers had their first non-DeJesus run of the game. Robert Weeks hit a grounder down the first base line, Kimball chased it and slid to the line and made a nice play for his first ever stop playing the shorty position. Casey Bahn hit a weak bouncer up the middle of the field, Zuccarello shuffled to his left and made the play with ease. Puvogel whiffed and after three full frames, Boston had a 10-3 lead and was working their subs into the game.

Rob Dias would start the 4th off with run scoring hard grounder to the left side for his third run of the game. Elana Regan then hit a fly ball down the third base line. Bahn dropped early as Regan raced down the third base line. Bahn crawled to the ball as it was in front of him and Regan beat him to the base for her first ever run for the Renegades. A huge celebratory moment occurred as Boston cheered her first ever run and Regan had a smile on her face from ear to ear. The Renegades did not have much time to catch their breath as Thayer hit the first pitch he saw to the right side by the defense and 8 seconds later, hit first base for his first run of the year and his first run since the 2018 season. Guy hit a ball into the third layer of the Bomber defense to plate the third straight run. Kimball hit a bouncer up the right side and scored with his speed for five straight runs. This made the score 15-3 as Boston was looking at the 12-run rule if they could hold Long Island down. Luis Soto came to the dish looking to join the hit parade. On the 7th pitch of the at bat off Connolly, he hit a bomb into right field, missed third base but had time to get back to the base for his first run of the game. Ivan Rodriguez would get off the bench and enter for Dias. Peter Connolly would stay in after the Soto run to face Ivan. Ivan hit hard ball to the left side and his line took him in fair territory up the right side but Alex Barrera would make his first defensive stop of the game. Regan would then hit a grounder to the left side, this time Bahn would make the play to stop her for the second out of the inning. Rob Thayer then hit another grounder up the middle. Running to first base, he scored again. This was just the second time in Thayer’s career he plated more than a run in the same game. The last time he achieved this feat was in just his third game of his career in 2011 when he scored 3 runs against Casey Bahn and the York Thundersticks in Haddonfield, NJ. Zuccarello would end the inning with a strike out. Boston had 7 runs in the frame and led 17-3. If they could get three outs before Long island scored 3 runs, the Renegades would stay on defense for the rest of the game.

Long island would have their 1-2-3 hitters up to try to get this game under the 12-run rule. Shayne Cantan re-entered the game to play defense for Ivan Rodriguez and went to play the midfield spot. DeJesus, representing two thirds of the Bombers offense led off with a strike out. Barrera followed suit with the silver Enchilada (3 strike outs). This brought lifelong Bomber, Braulio Thorne off the bench. Thorne, the only active Bomber who was part of the 7 game winning streak against the Renegades, stepped into the left handed batter’s box. He hit a line drive up the middle toward Cantan and 7 seconds later dove into third base for a Bomber run. This brought pinch hitter Joe Esposito to the plate. At this point, the Bombers asked the Renegades for a special rule not in the league rulebook. Esposito, unable to run was going to have a pinch runner. They planned to make this work having Alex Barrera stand off to the side with the plan to only run to first base. This is a really tough thing to monitor when the runner actually starts to run and only having to go to one base is a serious advantage (which is why there is no rule in the league for this). The left handed Esposito would face a new pitcher as high Schooler, Ethan Schulman toed the pitching rubber. Esposito came up empty. Boston led 17-4 as the game was officially put into the 12-run rule after 4 innings.

Schulman would stay in the game to face the rest of the lineup. Casey Bahn led off the fifth with a dribbler up the middle. Kimball and Zuccarello converged on the ball as it died between them, the veteran Zuccarello took charge for the stop. Edgar Erickson came off the bench for Long island, hitting from the left side. Edgar came up empty with a strike out. Long Island went to the bench again, Pasquale Agnone stepped into the plate with his big bat. He hit a bomb past Cantan and Soto rolling out near the 170 line, He struggled to find third base, missed it and had all day to come back and tag it. Barrera got the golden sombrero with his fourth whiff of the game to end the fifth as Boston Led 17-5.

Thorne would not have success in his second trip to the plate, as he struck out to start the sixth. This brought Joe Esposito and the pinch runner back to the plate. Esposito hit a fly ball to the right side, Barrera took off toward first base. Kimball was a bit frozen on the play as the ball sounded harder than it was. It landed in front of Kimball, but Barrera had an advantage because he knew which base he was running toward beat him out on a bang-bang play. This run was credited to Esposito for his first ever run as Long Island had something to celebrate in front of their home crowd. That would be all Long Island would get as Bahn would strike out and Erickson would hit a grounder to the left side that got by Zuccarello. Guy did not give up and went after it as it died before the second layer. Guy made the play to end the game for his 4th stop to lead the Renegade defense.

The story of this game for the Renegades was about Regan, Kimball and Thayer. Elana scored her first run of her career and was very proud of the work she did on her swing this season and was happy to see that work pay off. Kimball, was excited to see his work pay off in a game as well. Thayer may have been the story dropping 40 pounds at this point in the season and scoring a pair of runs for the first time since 2012. Boston was packing up and prepping to play the Titans extending the win streak over Long Island to 21 games.

Game #3 – Boston takes down the NJ Titans 7-2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
NJ	0	0	1	0	0	1	2	11	6
Boston	1	4	1	1	0	x	7	9	7

NJ	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
Turner	4	2	2	3	Devenish- MF	4	0	2	2
Widiner	4	0	2	0	Dias – RS	4	2	0	1
Bordley	3	0	2	1	Cantan- 1B	3	2	1	0
D. Gonzalez	3	0	2	1	– Soto – PH	1	0	1	—
Mischler – DH	3	0	2	—	– Regan – 1b/3B	0	0	0	0
Jedynak- DF	—	—	—	0	Sanchez – DH	3	2	1	—
Cruz	3	0	1	1	– Thayer – DH	1	0	0	—
					Zuccarello – DF/LS	—	—	—	4
					Crook – 3B	2	0	1	0
					– L. Rodriguez – 3B	1	0	1	0
					Kimball – R	3	1	2	0
					– I Rodriguez – R	0	0	0	0

Totals	20	2	11	6	Totals	22	7	9	7
Pitcher – Dinome					Pitcher- Cochran	13	3	3
					Pitcher – Connolly	9	4	4
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Lenicheck
					RS Caller – Connolly

Game Summary

After losing a tough game to Philly and easily beating the Long Island Bombers, Boston traveled across the field for the third time on the day to take on a new look Titans team. The Titans had been ripped apart since their 2021 season. In 2019, Boston and New Jersey finished 3rd and 5th at the series. That was the first time in league history where two teams from the East coast had finished top five.

For the Titans, only two of the players in their starting lineup started for those power house teams (Zach Turner and Lamont Bordley and they had a new pitcher on the mound as well, in Turner’s father).

Boston’s strategy was to stay on its toes as they did not know how this pitcher would perform. The focus was also on making outs at the bottom half of the Titan order as the top three Titans hitters had some great speed. For the Renegades, Jason Lenicheck would call the left side with Peter Connolly calling the right side. Ron Cochran and Peter would split time on the mound. Ron would have the 1/2& 6 hitters (Devenish, Dias and Kimball) while Peter would face the 3/4/5 hitters in Cantan, Sanchez and Crook.

In the top of the first, Turner struck out to start off the game. Deshawn Widener (who had played on and off for the NJ teams over the years) hit a lazy grounder to the left side which Guy Zuccarello gobbled up with ease. Shawn Devenish then made a nice play sliding to his left in the middle of the field to stop a bouncing line drive off the bat of Lamont Bordley for a clean 1-2-3 inning.

Devenish led off after making his nice play. He hit a hard grounder to the right side. Damien Gonzalez would make a nice play up front to make the first out of the game for the Titans. Rob Dias then dribbled to the left side and Zach Tuner stopped him two steps before he hit first base. That brought Connolly to the mound to face Shayne Cantan. Our Hawaiian laced a fly ball into left field and scored running to third base for the first run of the game. Sanchez would go down on four straight swings and misses. Boston was off to a sluggish start offensively.

In the top of the second, the Renegades were getting one of their first looks at youngster, Damien Gonzalez. This 14 year old player had grown since the Renegades last saw him in 2019. In this at bat, he would strike out. Sam Mischler would also go down on strikes. This brought rookie, John Cruz to the plate. Cruz, a former football player stepped into the right handed batters boxed and stroked the first pitch he saw deep and foul into left field and he broke the ball. With three strikes, he laced a line drive up the middle of the filed, Devenish slid one step to his right and laid out and made the play. This was the 2nd inning in a row Devenish ended the Titans threat.

Drew Crook would lead off the 2nd inning, well rested after sitting out the game vs the Bombers. After three swings and misses, Connolly would get Crook off the bottom of his bat and Drew would hit a ground ball to the left side to Zach Turner. Chris Kimball came to the plate, which brought Cochran back to the mound. After hitting a 35 footer that did not clear the 40 foot arc, Kimball had a second life. He made the best of it by hitting a hard grounder up the middle for the Renegades second run of the game. Devenish then hit a line drive on the second pitch he saw very well up the middle of the field. Rookie John Cruz was there and took a shot off his body while standing up. He knocked the ball down, and didn’t blink as he went after it and stopped Devenish with ease. A gutsy play by Cruz who was perfectly placed in the field to have the ball hit him very hard. Rob Dias then stayed hot on the day as he scored on a hard grounder down the third base line. Cantan would make it two straight with a first pitch grounder up the right side by everyone for his second run of the game. Sanchez kept the party going with a first pitch fly ball into left field. Crook would strike out to end the inning. However, the Renegades bats woke up and would lead this game 5-0 after two innings.

The Titans would bring their leadoff hitter and one of the better hitters in the league to the plate in the third. Turner, who struck out in the first inning would not be denied in this at bat. He hit the third pitch of the at bat on the fly to Drew Crook at third base. Crook lined the ball up well, but the fly ball gave Turner the burner time to score as Crook had one chance and bobbled it. The Titans were on the board. Widener and Bordley would go down on strikes for the first two outs of the inning. Gonzalez would end the inning with a dribbler up the middle of the field which Rob Dias raced inward on and stopped for his first stop of the entire tournament. Boston led 5-1 after two and a half.

The third inning would continue to be sluggish for Boston. Kimball and Devenish would start the inning with strike outs off the arm of Cochran. Rob Dias would score the only run for Boston in this inning with a pop fly to the right side as he raced to third base. Cantan would strike out against Connolly to end the inning. After three, Boston led 6-1.

The 4th inning would start with Sammy Mischler hitting a grounder down the third base line, which Guy Zuccarello stopped. Cruz and Turner would strike out to end the inning as Boston had another 1-2-3 inning. The Titans had 7 strike outs in 13 at bats.

David Sanchez led off the 4th inning for Boston with a memorable hit. Peter Connolly delivered a pitch which hit Sanchez on the handle and then rolled down his bat and he hit it a second time and laced a shot into deep right field that rolled nearly 170 feet. It was the furthest hit of the entire day for Boston. Weissman next went to the bench and brought Luis Rodriguez in to hit for Crook. With Cochran pitching, Rodriguez, who had just changed his swing two days prior to the tournament was not in synch and went down on four straight swings. Cochran and Kimball could not find the ball either as Chris stuck out for the second time in the game. Devenish followed suit and for the second inning in a row Boston struck out three times (and 8 times in the game).

The 5th inning was much like many of the other innings for the Titans. Deshawn Widener led off the inning with a grounder to the left side. Zuccarello laid out to his right for the stop, and the second time he stopped Widener. Bordley and Gonzalez would strike out to end the fifth.

In the bottom of the 5th inning, Rob Dias would get the final at bat of a great offensive tournament for him. This was exciting as he had been working on rebuilding his swing. Cochran would get the bottom of the bat and Dias hit a chopper to the left side. Turner made the play with ease. Luis Soto entered the game for Cantan and struck out for the second out. That brought Rob Thayer off the bench for David Sanchez. He hit a line drive up the middle of the field and ran to third base, however, first base was buzzing. Thayer recognized this and tried to change direction. However, his direction took him toward the Titans bench and the Renegades stopped him to avoid injury.

Elana Regan and Luis Rodriguez would head into the field on defense in the 6th inning. Sam Mischler would strike out to lead off the inning. Weissman would then take this opportunity to get Ivan Rodriguez into the game on defense as Chris Kimball exited the game. John Cruz then hit a dribbler to the left side, which Guy Zuccarello gobbled up for his game leading 4th stop. Zack Turner next hit a weak flare to the left side which froze Zuccarello. Guy hit the ground too early and then pushed the ball away from him as Turner burned down the third base line for the Titans second run of the game. Widener would end the game with the Titans 11th strike out. The final score was 7-2

Boston finished the day 2-1 in their first three games of the 2022 season. Overall, it was a good tournament. We saw improved swings from Dias, Sanchez, Cantan, Kimball and Regan. We saw a more confident defense than in 2021. We saw a much improved pitching performance from Peter Connolly from previous seasons. Everyone contributed and the Renegades knew they would only get better as Joe McCormick, Joe Yee and Melissa Hoyt would be joining them for their trip to Philly. There was work to be done for sure, but it was great to have 2022 off to a good start and the team’s confidence in what Weissman preached preseason was growing!

Game #4 – Boston downs a different Titans team 11-3

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
NJ	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	12	8
Boston	3	4	2	2	0	x	11	7	6

NJ	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
D. Gonzalez	4	1	2	0	Devenish- MF	3	2	0	0
George	4	1	1	8	-Soto – PH	1	1	0	—
Cruz	4	1	1	0	– Thayer – R	1	0	1	0
Koppenjan	3	0	3	0	Dias – LS	3	1	1	4
Morgan	3	0	2	0	– Kimball – RS	2	0	0	0
Jedynak	3	0	3	0	McCormick – RS/LS/MF	4	4	0	1
					Cantan – 3B/R	3	2	1	1
					– L. Rodriguez – PH	1	0	1	0
					– Dias – LS	—	—	—	0
					Sanchez – DH	4	1	3	—
					Hoyt – DF-1B	—	—	—	0
					– Regan – DF-1B	—	—	—	0
					L. Rodriguez – R	2	0	0	0
					– Yee – 3B	2	0	0	0
					– Crook – 3B	—	—	—	0

Totals	21	3	12	8	Totals	26	11	7	6
Pitcher – N. Gonzalez					Pitcher- Cochran	15	7	2
					Pitcher – Connolly	11	4	5
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Grillo
					RS Caller – Connolly

Game Summary

On a day that we expected to be all rain, somehow, the rain held off and this game actually started very close to on time. Maybe it was Coach Rob’s yellow pants. Maybe it was the fact that this day was in memory of the late Greg Gontaryk. Either way, the rain held off and Beepball commenced.

The Titans entered this game with a very different roster from two weeks prior as their top three hitters were missing due to family obligations. They had to pull in some players who had left their team to go play for other teams during the 2022 season to fill out their roster that included Randy George and Marvin Morgan. The first inning of this game started off in good fashion for both teams. The Titans put balls in play in each of the first three at bats but for the Renegades, three different defensive players made stops as Joe McCormick made the first on the right side, Rob Dias made a nice diving play on the left side and Shayne Cantan pulled in a fly ball at third base.

In the Bottom half of the first, Boston would get the bats going, sending six hitters to the plate and five of them put the ball in play. Devenish, McCormick, Cantan all plated runs for the Renegades to give a 3-0 lead.

The second inning was not kind to the Titans as they sent three batters up and all of them went down on strikes. In the bottom half of the inning, Boston would send 7 hitters to the plate with just one whiff. Devenish and McCormick both scored on grounders to the left side. Shayne Cantan scored on a grounder up the middle and David Sanchez plated a run on a grounder. For the Titans, all 4 defensive stops were made by Randy George. After two, Boston held a commanding 7-0 lead.

The 3rd inning was another 1-2-3 inning as the Titans top three hitters went down with a strike out and two outs made by Rob Dias. As often happens in baseball, make some nice plays and you find yourself leading off the inning. Dias launched the second pitch he saw on a deep fly to left to lead off the inning. Joe McCormick then laced a line drive into left field. Shayne then laced a shot into left, but the run was called back because the base did not go off in time and since he had no base to run to, his line sent him into the Titans bench. For safety he was stopped and he came back to the plate. A strikeout ensued. After this play, the bases were changed out. Sanchez gave his all, fouling off three straight pitches before he also struck out. That brought Joe Yee off the bench for his first appearance of the year. Yee laced a line drive down the third base line. George ranged back behind the base to make the out. After three innings, the Renegades led 9-0

The 4th inning would again, not be kind to the Titans as they would go down 1-2-3 on strike outs and that would be 12 straight outs for the Titans for the first 12 hitters. Boston would continue bringing in players at this point as Luis Soto entered the game for his first appearance of the day. On the third pitch he saw off the hands of Peter Connolly he lofted a fly ball into right field for a run. Chris Kimball pinch hit next and was put out by who else, Randy George, on the first pitch he saw. McCormick froze the defense with a short pop fly near the 40 foot arc on a big swing and scored on a pop up slide on the third base line for his 4th run of the game. Ivan Rodriguez would then be called on to hit and go down on swings. Sanchez would continue the trend with his third whiff of the day as Rob and Peter struggled to find his target. Boston led this game 11-0. Boston failed to get this game into the 12 run rule, but the bright side was it would allow more players to get into the game and get a chance to hit, which was the desired outcome.

In the 5th, The Titans led off with two more strike outs by Damien Gonzalez and Randy George for 14 consecutive outs , nine of them by strike out. John Cruz, a rookie, lofted a deep fly into left field at Rob Thayer who entered the game on defense. Thayer lost his balance moving to his left and fell to the ground, he crawled to the ball but came up with it right after Cruz hit the base. This would be all the Titans would get in the inning as they closed the gap to 11-1.

In the bottom of the 5^th, confusion would begin for the Renegades as the team had a hard time keeping up with all the substitutions. Joe Yee led off the inning with a grounder to Randy George. Chris Kimball stepped up to the plate next and lofted a ball up the middle and flew down the line to score. Here is where the confusion started. Tom Albertson brought the issue to Coach Rob’s attention and the Renegades had batted out of order. Rob Thayer’s spot in the lineup was skipped, the run was taken off the board, Thayer was awarded a strike out and Kimball came back to the plate to hit in his official spot. Kimball then hit the third pitch of this official at bat to who else, Randy George for the first 1-2-3 inning the Renegades were put down in all game. Boston led 11-1 after five innings.

The Titan offense would start to wake up in the 6th inning. Marvin Morgan, who was picked up to fill out the Titan line-up card won an offensive all-star award at the ’21 World Series, would lead off the inning with a grounder to Rob Dias. After Kathryn Jedynak struck out, Damien Gonzalez came to the dish. He lofted a fly ball up the middle of the field between Rob Dias and Chris Kimball. Kimball was slow to the ball and waited for Dias to pick it up. That hesitation was the difference. Initially, Gonzalez was called out. After a contested call, the run was allowed and the score was now 11-2. Randy George came up next and lofted a fly ball down the first base line. Elana Regan dove to the ground, then had to regain her balance and she picked up the ball right as George reached the base. The call on the field was an out but the Titans contested the call. After a quick discussion, the run was awarded to the Titans as Regan just missed her first career stop. Cruz would end the game with a whiff.

Game #5 – Boston defeats the Philly Fire 12-10

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RKPut outs

Boston	2	4	1	1	3	1		12	4	13
Phi	0	5	2	3	0	0		10	5	14

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Philly	AB	R	K	PO
Devenish – MF	5	3	0	1	Rhines	5	3	0	1
Dias – LS	5	1	1	8	Margist	5	3	0	0
McCormick – RS	5	3	0	3	T. Rodriguez	5	0	1	3
Cantan – 1b/3B	5	1	3	0	S. Hogwood	5	1	2	0
Crook – 3B/R	4	1	0	0	Silver	4	2	1	0
– Yee – 3B	1	0	0	1	Krause	4	1	1	10
L. Rodriguez – DH	5	3	0	—
Kimball – DF/R	—	—	—	0

Totals	30	12	4	13	Totals	28	10	5	14
Pitcher- Cochran	24	11	1		Pitcher – P. Krause
Pitcher – Connolly	6	1	3
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller-Grillo
RS Caller – Connoly

Game Summary

The much anticipated game between Philly and Boston would take place next. By the beast of the East rules, teams are not supposed to fly people in from other cities to take play away from Local players. Philly decided that they did not lie this rule and flew in Nick Silver from St. Louis to play for them. This is the second year in a row, they have played players from other teams to try to beat the Renegades and stack up their team. This is common practice in the league, but the Beast of the East has tried to promote local players over this practice.

The rain continued to hold off and the Renegades would be the visiting team in this match. The last matchup between the two teams was won by Philly 15-12. Boston would need to win by more than 3 runs to win the beast of the east title. Ron Cochran would be facing 5 of the 6 hitters in the starting lineup with Peter Connolly facing Shayne Cantan. Pat Krause would be pitching for the Fire.

Shawn Devenish would lead off the game hitting the second pitch he saw in strange fashion as he “Doble hit” the ball off his bat and drove a fly ball into deep left field to get the team going. Rob Dias would hit there straight foul balls including a bomb into left that went foul but would go down swinging on the 4th pitch. McCormick would hit a hard grounder to the left side that Case Krause would have bounce off him, Mac’s speed was too much for Krause to recover it and the Renegades had their second run. Peter Connolly came to the mound to pitch to Shayne Cantan. they had a hard foul ball down the left side but would go down on strikes after three straight fouls balls and a whiff (just like Dias). That brought Ron back to the mound to face Drew Crook. Drew hit a rocket foul down the third base line again, as timing was an issue for the Renegades in this inning. He then lofted the 2nd pitch he saw into deep left sending Justin Rhines running to his right and angling back to the 170 arc. Rhines would make the play of the game on the run off Crook.

Justin Rhines would lead off the game for Philly. On the first pitch he saw, he hit a flare to the right side and stood in the batter’s box. Maybe he did not hear the base, maybe he thought it was foul. Either way, McCormick came sliding in and made the play before Rhines could get to the 40 foot arc. John Margist would then hit a grounder to the right side and McCormick made another nice play sliding to make the stop. Tyler Rodriguez would strike out to end the inning as Boston led 2-0

This brought Luis Rodriguez to the plate as the designated hitter for his first appearance of the game. Rodriguez did not see much action at the plate in the first leg of the Beast of the East because he was reworking his swing. His new swing felt more comfortable and he earned this start. Facing Cochran, he hit a line drive up the middle that landed between three Fire players for a big run out of the six spot in the lineup. Shawn Devenish stayed hot roping a deep foul ball before lofting a fly ball into the center of the Fire defense by everyone for his second run of the game and the second of the inning. Rob Dias then hit two more foul balls before hitting a grounder up the middle, Krause dove at it and it bounced off him, he bobbled the ball, giving Dias time to score. McCormick kept the trend alive with 2 more foul balls (another close call) before hitting a line drive into left field for the 4th run of the inning. That would be all for Boston as Cantan grounded out to Krause and Joe Yee (who entered to play defense for Crook) would hit a lazy pop to Tyler Rodriguez on the first pitch he saw of the game off his cousin, Peter Connolly. Luis Rodriguez would also ground out to Tyler Rodriguez to end the inning. This would be the most runs the Renegades would score in an inning of this game, as they plated 4 runs. This gave Boston a 6-0 lead after one and a half innings.

Scott Hogwood stepped to the plate and hit a hard grounder to the left side under a diving Rob Dias, but right to Joe Yee for the first out of the inning. That brought the out of towner, Silver to the plate. Silver, was one of the top players for the Indy Edge in the previous year. He hit a line drive up the left side past a diving Joe Yee right to Chris Kimball who was just too slow to pick up the ball to beat the speedy silver. The first run of the Fire’s game went to the player in question for beast of the east eligibility. On a full count, Krause lofted a fly ball to the right side. Shayne Cantan picked it up right as Krause hit the bag. the call was contested, but Krause was awarded the run. Rhines would then loft a line drive into left field with three strikes on him that Kimball lined up and bobbled. Rhines was safe by a hair. Margist hit a line drive into left field at Kimball again, the same result occurred as Margist hit the base a hair before Kimball picked up the ball Philly scored four straight on bang-bang plays. Tyler Rodriguez would hit a weak grounder up the middle that Rob Dias would stop for the second out. Hogwood would get the best hit of the inning on a deep drive to center that rolled up near the fence which was about 200 feet away as the defense had to stop Kimball from running into the fence. Silver would whiff to end the inning. The Fire plated 5 runs (this would also be their best offensive inning. Four of those 5 runs, the Renegades were right on the ball defensively. After two innings, the Fire felt good and were down just 6-5.

Devenish led off, hitting the first pitch on the ground to the left side, Krause over ran it but was able to get the ball up right before Devenish hit third base. Dias then hit a grounder to Krause in room service fashion for the second out. McCormick hit a grounder to the left side at Krause again, Krause hit the ground too early and picked up the ball as McCormick hit first base. Krause ran off the field thinking the play was over. The call was contested and the run was awarded to Boston. Cantan would whiff for Boston in a weak offensive effort by the Renegades. But they scored for the third inning straight and held a 2 run lead heading into the bottom of the third.

Casey Krause would lead off with a grounder to Rob Dias who laid out to make the stop right at him. Rhines lofted a flare to the right side that McCormick over ran, as he tried to go back to make the play, Rhines would score as he is just too quick. Margist would then get the second no doubter of the game as he hit a fly ball down the right field line that landed on the paint that he could have walked to the base on. Dias made a nice diving stop to his right off Tyler Rodriguez and then another nice play in which he slightly over ran a ball off the bat of Hogwood, but had enough time to collect himself and change directions to make the play. The game as tied at 7 after three innings. Krause and Dias each had three stops on the field for each of the teams.

Drew Crook reentered the game to hit for Yee. He hit another grounder to Krause who was being tested for sure. Luis Rodriguez would hit the second pitch he saw on a line drive off Cochran’s shoulder. He then lofted a lazy liner to the left side that got past Krause. Rodriguez would score down the first base line for his second run of the game. Devenish would then hit a weak grounder down the third base line. Krause flew to the ball and made the play with ease. Dias then would it another room service ball for Krause. Krause had 4 shots at a ball, made three stops and Luis Rodriguez’s run gave the Gades an 8-7 lead heading into the bottom of the 4th.

The out of towner, Silver led off the inning with a lazy line drive to the left side past the diving Dias and into the hands of Shawn Devenish. The call was contested and the run was awarded. The out of towner had scored two runs and this would surely make it hard for the Renegades to win this tie breaker in this close game. After Krause Whiffed, Rhines came back to the plate. He lofted a fly ball up the middle that Devenish dove at and picked up just after Rhines hit the base. Margist hit a grounder up the middle, past the diving Dias and it fell short of Shawn and Philly led 10-8 for their biggest lead of the match. Tyler Rodriguez would loft a fly ball up the middle of the field. He was initially called safe, but after a contested call, Joe McCormick was awarded the stop. Hogwood would whiff to end the inning.

Joe McCormick would step into the box as the drizzle started up again. He would hit a dribbler down the left side. Who else but Krause would slid over to make the play, he over slid it a bit, but McCormick slid into the base too early and he was out. Shayne Cantan and Peter would struggle to make contact as they swung and missed on 4 straight balls and 7 of the last 8. Cantan would strike out for the third time as the rest of the team had just one. Peter was clearly struggling and was apologetic but he would keep his head in the game as he was not only pitching to a few hitters, he was calling an amazing game on the right side of the defense. Drew Crook, who had been subbed in and out of the game as much as possible to allow Yee to play defense was back at the plate. He would hit the third pitch of the game into deep center field to the fence where the Philly team was stopped and Crook scored easily for the biggest hit of the year for the Renegades. Luis Rodriguez then hit the first pitch he saw hard down the right side past a diving Tyler and Silver hit the ground too early and could not recover for his third run of the game and tied this game up at 10-10.. Shawn Devenish then hit Cochran in the shins off a hop (2nd time Ron had been hit on the day). He then hit a hard grounder down the third base line that Krause made a great effort on but it went by him and Devenish scored running to third base for an 11-10 lead. Krause would get Dias easily on a room service ball to end the inning. Three huge runs for the Renegades all started by Crook and Rodriguez at the bottom of the Renegade order, showed the depth of the lineup.

The fifth inning was all Rob Dias. He would make a stop on Silver running in and to his right for the first stop. He would get a stop on a bang-bang play on a ball he charged that went under his shoulder and he recovered just in time. Then Rhines would hit a weak grounder up the middle that Dias would make moving to his left as McCormick slid in right behind him to back him up. A huge 1-2-3 inning to protect the one running lead.

Joe McCormick was leading off for the Renegades and he was hot 3-4 on the day. He hit a grounder down the third base line, Krause made a great play ranging to his tight and angling back behind the base to make the stop. . That brought the struggling duo of Connolly and Cantan to the plate, trying to figure it out, they connected on the first pitch on a line drive to the right side that fell between Tyler and Silver as Cantan scored a huge insurance run. Crook hit a weak grounder to Krause for the second out of the inning and came up limping. Tyler stopped Luis to end the inning. Boston held a 12-10 lead heading into the 6th. The Beast of the east title would not be something in the minds of the Renegades as they knew the tie breaker was lost at this point. It was all about winning the game.

Philly would have their 2-3-4 hitters up. Margist had scored three straight times, but Tyler and Hogwood were a combined 1-8 on the day. They key was to get Margist out. He hit a hard grounder up the middle that kicked off a Diving Rob Dias’ legs and on a hop, Shawn Devenish caught it in his stomach on his knees for the biggest out of the game for the Renegades and Shawn’s first stop. It came at a timely moment and surely put some water on the Fire’s flame. Rodriguez then hit a fly ball that just cleared the 40 foot arc. Dias slid hard and made the play but Rodriguez was called safe. After a contested call, the run was over turned. Hogwood would end the game with a strike out and the Renegades would win 12-10.

A big win for the Renegades even though the Beast of the East was lost on a tie breaker, Every Renegade knows, that Silver being in the lineup is against the rules of the tournament. In celebration of this game, Bryan Grillo who may have had one of his finest games calling came up lame and pulled a calf muscle. He would be unable to call the last game of the day. Shawn Devenish, Joe McCormick and Luis Rodriguez paced the Renegade offense with 3 runs each. Rob Dias paced the defense with 8 stops!

Game #6 – Boston gives the Bombers hope but wins 8-4

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Long Island	0	1	1	1	0	1	4	10	8
Boston	0	1	2	2	3	x	8	7	8

Long Island	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
J. Dejesus	4	1	1	2	Devenish – MF	4	1	0	0
Barrera	4	2	1	0	Dias – LS	3	1	2	3
Suarez	4	0	2	2	-Marciello – PH	1	0	1	—
Agnone	4	1	3	0	-Cantan -3B/1B	—	—	—	0
Bahn	3	0	2	2	McCormick – RS/LS	4	3	1	4
Fink	3	0	1	2	Yee – 3B	2	0	1	0
					– L. Rodriguez -R	2	0	1	0
					Sanchez – DH	3	1	0	—
					– Thayer – DH	1	0	1	—
					Regan – DF-1B	—	—	—	0
					– Hoyt – DF-1B	—	—	—	0
					Kimball – R/RS	3	2	0	1

Totals	22	4	10	8	Totals	23	8	7	8
Pitcher – Sciortino					Pitcher- Cochran	17	7	5
					Pitcher – Connolly	6	1	2
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Grillo
					RS Caller- Connolly

Game Summary

After a big win over Philly, the Renegades moved fields for the third time of the day as a drizzle started up again when the game started. Boston won the coin toss again. Boston would make some changes coaching wise in this game as Peter Connolly shifted to call the left side and Gina Devenish would get her second start calling the right side of the defense.

Joe Dejesus would lead off and hit a grounder down the first base line, McCormick ranged to the line and made the play for the stop. Long Island would finish the inning with two whiffs. Boston would not fare much better in their half of the inning. Shawn Devenish would hit a room service grounder that Casey Bahn dropped to the ground on and the ball hit him perfectly for the out. Rob Dias and McCormick both struck out (This would be Mac’s first and only strike out on the day). No score after one inning.

Pasquale Agnone led off the inning with a dribbler to the left side. Dias ranged over and “stop” was called by Weissman. Confusion ensued because nobody else saw a pending collision as Weissman had a bad angle. Admitting his mistake, Weissman quickly awarded the run to Long Island as they had their first lead of the game. Bahn would lace a liner down the third base line again, as Dias ranged far to his right for the stop. Meghan Fink hit a lazy line drive that feel a few steps in front of Dias to his right again. It could have been an all Dias inning, if not for Weissman’s nervousness. Back to the top of the order, Dejesus grounded a ball to the right side that McCormick stopped. Long Island led 1-0 after one and a half.

Connolly would start off the bottom of the second facing his cousin, Joe Yee. It would result in a 4 pitch strike out. Peter stayed on the bump to face David Sanchez. He would hit the third ball up the middle stopped by Meghan Fink. Ron Cochran came back to the mound to face Chris Kimball. Kimball laced a line drive down the third base line where nobody was, he flew down the first base line to tie the game up. Devenish then laced a line drive into deep left. Joe Dejesus moved to his left and dropped to the ground and stopped the ball with the play of the game defensively. The game was tied after two innings 1-1.

Out of form for Alex Barrera, he came up again from the right side (he normally rotates hitting right and left). Alex hit a high fly to the left side. Dias took a few steps back but it fell far in front of him. By the time he collected himself and raced forward, it was too late and Alex gave the Bombers the 2nd run of the game. This momentum would be followed by three strikeouts in a row by Suarez, Agnone and Bahn. Weissman would huddle the team up quickly after they came off the field to encourage them to dig deep,

Rob Dias, who was struggling with a bum knee on this day would continue his struggle at the plate with a 5 pitch strikeout. Joe McCormick laced the first pitch he saw into right field and scored with ease to tie the game up at two. Yee hit a grounder that Fink ranged far to her right on to stop for the 2nd out of the inning. That brought Sanchez to the plate. David who had an amazing first tournament, was struggling to find his consistent swing. Rob and Peter had talked about moving his target before this at bat. On the 5th pitch to Sanchez, he crushed a fly ball to left field and raced to third. On the play Alex Barrera ran over Meghan Fink like a running back plowing over a cornerback. She didn’t even flinch or need time to collect herself, proving how tough she is. Kimball popped up to Bahn to end the inning. Boston led 3-2.

The K’s would continue for Long Island as Fink and Dejesus would whiff to start the inning for their 6th and 7th strikeouts of the game. Barrera would come up right handed three times in a row (not sure when the last time he has ever done this against us as he is a switch hitter). He hit a deep line drive that hit the fence (around 200 feet away) which was an automatic run on this day to keep the defense safe. This tied up the game for the Bombers. Suarez would end the inning with a pop fly which Dias picked up on a few hops.

Devenish, who led off the game would lead off the inning as the Bombers had held him scoreless. He hit a grounder to the right side and was stopped by Suarez as Devenish had been stopped by three different Bombers. Dias hit a laser into left field. Dejesus was on his horse to his left and dove to make the play close, but Dias was safe on his best hit of the day. McCormick would hit a short pop fly to no man’s land and score the only back-to-back runs for the Renegades in this game. Luis Rodriguez would pinch hit for Yee and hit the first pitch he saw to the right side where he was stopped by Alvin Suarez. That brought David Sanchez to the plate. He roped a shot into left field that rolled near the fence but he stood in the batter’s box for nearly 7 seconds before he started to run. After the play, he mentioned that he thought he heard “Foul” when the spotter called “Five”. That froze him and the Renegades gave up a sure run in a close game. Boston led 5-3 after four innings.

Long Island would continue to struggle to make contact. Agnone and Bahn would each strike out for their second times of the game to start the inning. Fink would hit a grounder up the middle in which both McCormick and Dias would converge on and Mac would pick up easily for the out.

Chris Kimball would come up big again. After missing the first three pitches, he fouled two off and then laced a line drive into the defense and scored with his speed. Devenish then got on the board with a pop fly that alluded Meghan Fink when it hit the ground. this brought up a moment every Renegade was anxious to watch, Mike Marciello’s first at bat of his career. Mike found the team in the newspaper and he became a Renegade coach back in the 2014 season. As time passed, Mike lost more and more of his sight and became legally blind before the 2022 season. He stripped off his coaching shorts to show his baseball pants, stepped into the box to face Peter Connolly. You could hear a pin drop on the Renegade bench with the anticipation. Mike swung and missed, then got a foul tip. He then had a take to calm himself down and find his swing but struck out. Joe McCormick would then hit a hard grounder down the third baseline by everyone for the 8th run of the game. Luis Rodriguez went down on strikes and Rob Thayer would get his 2nd official at bat of the day (his first was called a strike out because we batted out of order against New Jersey). He would strike out to end the inning.

More mental mistakes for the Renegades to start off the 6th inning. Dejesus would hit a hard grounder to the right side. Shayne Cantan missed the play but Melissa Hoyt was there and had the ball in her hands in time when Luis Rodriguez ran into her and knocked the ball loose in a collision. A lack of communication in the field and Hoyt stayed in the game, showing her toughness. Alex Barrera then lofted a slicing liner to the line as Kimball ranged to his left and dove to the line making a perfect lay for the 2nd out. Suarez then lofted a high short ball that McCormick raced in to the 40 foot arc on but the ball landed behind him. Mac had time to find the ball and he made the second out of the inning. Agnone would strike out to end the game for Long Island giving Boston a 5-1 record heading into the World Series.

Game #7 – Renegades Roll Over Braille Bandits 14-2

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
PB	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	12	7
Boston	1	6	5	1	1	x	14	8	6

Palm Beach	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
McEntyre	2	0	2	0	McCormick – RS	2	1	1	1
– Jedynak	2	0	1	0	– Kimball – RS	3	1	1	3
Salmon	2	0	2	0	Devenish – MF	2	1	1	0
– Douglas	2	0	0	0	– Thayer -3B/1B	3	1	1	0
Tyler	3	1	2	2	Sanchez – DH	1	1	0	—
Victor	3	1	1	2	-L. Rodriguez – DH	2	2	0	—
Blake	3	0	2	2	I Rodriguez – DF-R	2	0	1	0
– Lee	0	0	0	0	Zuccarello- LS	5	3	1	2
Smith	1	0	1	0	Soto – 1B/3B	5	2	2	0
– Trutschel	2	0	1	1	Regan – MF	4	2	0	0

Totals	20	2	12	7	Totals	29	14	8	6
Pitcher – Argus					Pitcher – Cochran	21	11	5
					Pitcher – Connolly	7	3	3
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Connolly
					RS Caller -G. Devenish

Game Summary

Elana, Gina, Kimball and Guy – players of the game. Elana had her first ever 2 run game, Gina caller her first World Series game. Chris led the defense with 3 stops and Guy paced the offense with 3 runs

The Renegades first ever win under coach Weissman came in 2003 against the Florida Sand Spurs. That was the last time they played against a team from Florida, till today. The Bandits had made a bunch of recent series and had not finished higher than last place.

Day one of the series was all about making sure players got rest. With a Braille Bandits game and a rumor that Long Island had their flight cancelled…everything was about planning for the Gateway Archers, the last day of the game.

Boston would be the home team and were looking at it as a way to get some players warmed up and a way to get others a lot of playing time. The game plan was to get Guy Zuccarello, Luis Soto and Elana Regan to play the full game and rotate others into the game. Gina Devenish would be getting her second start of the season as a caller as well. The expectation was this would be a game where the opponent may strike out about 50% of the time.

With the league having issues with bases, third base was removed from action for the first inning. The K’s started early as the Bandits struck out three times in the first. In fact, the leadoff hitter, Jake McEntyre did something very rare, taking strike four for a called strike out.

Boston did not fare much better in the bottom of the inning. Trying to get timing down for Joe Mac and Shawn Devenish, they were the 1-2 hitters. McCormick had one foul tip and whiffed. Devenish fouled off the first two pitches and also whiffed. Luis Rodriguez, the DH, fouled off the first two pitches. He then hit a bouncer up the middle past the first layer which died before the second layer and scored running to first. The Gades first run of the 2022 World series! Guy ended the first, striking out as there was a combined 6 strikeouts in this first inning.

The whiffs would continue for the Bandits as Zephryn Victor struck out to start the second. That made 7 outs in this game by way of a whiff as the defense was getting a big break on both sides of the ball. The first defensive play of the game would come off the bat of Romano Blake, who hit a dribbler up the middle. Joe McCormick flew in and slid past it into the 40 foot arc…recovered and came back to make the play for the first out of the 2022 World Series. Ralph Smith whiffed to end the inning as Boston led 1-0 after 1.5 innings.

Peter Connolly would start the next inning on the bump, as he would be facing Luis Soto. Boston had a rotation in this series where Connolly would face 4 of the 13 hitters on the Renegades all week including Soto, Ivan Rodriguez, Shayne Cantan and David Sanchez. Soto and Connolly had been facing each other for the past few seasons as they had developed a great relationship that stretches beyond the field as well. Soto hit a line drive up the middle on the first pitch as Connolly got things going quicker than Cochran. Elana Regan became the first female to start a world series game since Kae Rausch. She hit the first pitch she saw into left field, but she missed third base and was stopped before she could get back. McCormick then came back up and hit a ball shorter than Regan, but his speed was too tough and he scored to make it 3-0. Devenish hit a hard grounder right through the legs of the right front man past everyone in “Bill Buckner “form to make it 4-0. Luis Rodriguez then hit a hard chopper changing the pitch of the ball for his second run of the game. Zuccarello checked in with his first run of the series on the very next pitch on a weak pop up that landed just past the 40 foot arc to make it 6-0. That would be six hitters, 8 pitches and six runs. Much improved from the first inning. Soto could not maintain the pattern, going down on strikes on five pitches. Elana Regan then hit the fourth pitch she saw down the third base line and after the umps conferred to check the play, was awarded her first run of her World Series and her second run of her career to give Boston a 7-0 lead. Weissman would start resting people as Chris Kimball replaced McCormick. He started like many of the others with four swings and misses to end the frame. Five of the six outs for both teams were whiffs.

Boston sent in the subs and moved things around defensively, as Regan got her first inning at mid field, Thayer moved to third and Kimball moved to right shorty for the Renegades. McEntyre and Salmon whiffed to start the third, Jeff Tyler then laced a ball up the middle to Elana Regan, while his catcher was yelling “go…go..go”. One would think the hitter would be called out as the catcher can’t talk during the play. However, the ball was not beeping and the play would be called a dead ball. He then hit the second pitch on a weak pop to the left side. Zuccarello charged it and went into a late slide and hit the ball with his ankle. He had no time to recover with Tyler’s speed as the Bandits got on the board for what may have been Tyler’s first career run. Zephryn Victor then laced a line drive to the left side as Rob Thayer, playing third crashed into the ground like an airplane making a crash landing. The inning would end with another whiff and Boston led 7-2 as the Bandits had whiffed 8 times in 11 trips to the plate.

Thayer would strike out to start the bottom of the third. David Sanchez would then enter the game, hitting for Lrod as a way to get his timing going. He hit the first pitch hard to the left side and scored with ease off Connolly to make it 8-2 as the Bandits caller called three different numbers on the play. Zuccarello then laced a line drive up the middle and something very rare happened. Guy broke the ball with his explosive power. Many jokes ensued, and we though it may have been just the second time he had ever broke a ball (it was actually the third time as he broke two balls against the New Jersey Lighting in 2015). He would eventually ground out to Tyler on a bang-bang play as Tyler would own Guy in this inning. Soto hit a bouncer up the middle right at Peter. Connolly arched his back to avoid getting hit and Soto beat it out as Tyler missed the play. Elana Regan then laced a hard grounder to the left side past the first line of defense and scored her second run of the game. This marked the first time; a female Renegade had ever scored multiple runs in a game! Another Renegade rookie got started as Kimball laced a line drive into left for his first World Series run. Thayer, then hit a weak grounder up the middle and after a step to the wrong base, took about 8 seconds to get to first for his first run of the series. This brought up our third rookie of the inning as Ivan Rodriguez, who started the game as a designated fielder, laced a nice hit into left but was put out quickly by Victor. This was a five run third as Boston led 12-2 after three and a half.

The fourth inning was a good defensive inning for Boston as the Bandits started to enter their bench. Kathleen Trueschel started things off with a weak flare to the right side as Chris Kimball raced in to make his first World Series stop on defense. After another Bandits whiff, Douglass would come off the bench and hit a coffin corner to the left side as it landed right in the intersection of the arc and the line as Guy raced in to make the call before Douglass even got to the 40 foot arc. After 4 innings, this game was over with Boston in command at 12-2.

Guy, who at this point in the game, was the most tenured player in the game, with his 18 years of experience, laced a shot into left on the first pitch to make it 13-2 as Boston inched to a 12 run game. After a Soto whiff, Regan strutted to the plate looking for a three run game but was stopped just short of her crashing into first base by Zephryn Victor. Chris Kimball was then involved in a weird play as he hit a flare down the third base line. Kimball was in fair territory, Victor was in foul territory, so the umpire stopped the play and called for a do over. He would then ground out to Romano. After four, Boston lead 13-2.

Two more whiffs for the Bandits and a defensive stop by Guy Zuccarello off the bat of Zephryn Victor may have been the defensive play of the game was all the Bandits had in the fifth. Boston was just trying to get rest for players and get experience for others. The plan was working.

In the bottom of the frame, Thayer grounded out to third. Ivan Rodriguez struck out which brought the defensive whiz of earlier in the inning to the plate. Guy laced a shot into left that would give the Renegades a 12 run lead and Zuccarello, his third run of the game. Soto would be stopped on a grounder up the middle and the Renegade offense was done for the day. The 12 run rule would go into effect after five, but with the Renegades being the home team, they just needed three outs.

The first Bandit up was Kathleen Trutshsel, who whiffed. It would be the 12th strike out for the Bandits. It was pretty much what the Renegades expected. The next batter was Kathryn Jeydnak who the Renegade had never seen put a ball in play with her time with Rochester, New Jersey and Long Island. A weak grounder to the arc was a result. Zuccarello and Kimball converged and Guy differed to Kimball to give him the out and build Kimball’s confidence. Douglass was the last hitter of the game. He hit a ball to the right side that slid past a charging Chris Kimball. Chris got to his feet and stood there wondering if he had help. Guy yelled at him from across the field, showing the leadership skills he has in the field. He implored Kimball to go get it. Kimball listened, attacked and made the stop. Ball game!

For Boston, Zuccarello paced the offense with 3 runs scored. He also was a defensive star with two stops and two assists in the field. Yes, we know there is no such thing as a beepball assist…but in this case, watch the sixth inning in how he coached Chris to his two outs, and you will agree. The story of the game though was Elana Regan scoring a pair and just missing a hat trick because of a missed base. This was the first ever game, a female Renegade had plated a pair of runs (and she may have had three if she did not miss a base). In fact, after the series, it was determined that this game made Elana Regan the all-time female Renegade leader in runs scored at three passing Melissa Hoyt and Kae Rausch. Boston got to stay on the field without moving for the first time all year as the Long Island Bombers limped over to play for the third time of the year.

Game #8 – Renegades Cancel the Long Island Bombers 18-4

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	9	1	2	6	x	x	18	5	10
Long Island	0	0	3	0	1	0	4	8	7

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Long Island	AB	R	K	PO
McCormick – 3B/R	5	5	0	3	D. Gonzalez	4	1	1	1
Devenish – MF	4	1	1	1	Cruz	4	1	1	0
– Kimball – R/RS	1	1	0	0	Hill	4	0	2	3
Sanchez – DH	1	1	0	—	Bahn	4	0	1	3
– Soto – DH	4	2	1	—	N. Gonzalez	3	2	0	0
Zuccarello – DF-LS	—	—	—	2	Automatic out	3	0	3	0
– Dias – DF-LS	—	—	—	3
Cantan – 1B	1	1	0	0
– Regan – 1B	4	1	1	0
Dias – RS	2	2	0	0
– Crook – PH	1	1	0	—
– Cantan – MF	2	2	0	1
Kimball – R	1	1	0	0
– Thayer – PH	1	0	0	—
– L. Rodriguez – R	1	0	1	0
– I. Rodriguez – PH	2	0	1	—
– Sanchez – 3B	—	—	—	0

Totals	30	18	5	10	Totals	22	4	8	7
Pitcher – Cochran	20	12	3		Pitcher – Sciortino
Pitcher – Connolly	10	6	2
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller-Lenicheck (1-3)
RS Caller -Connolly (1-3)
LS Caller – Grillo (4-6)
RS Caller – Lenicheck (4-6)

Game Summary

Joe McCormick led the team with 5 runs and Mac and Dias each made 3 stops on defense each

Right before game 1 of the series, Boston caught up with Long Island and learned that most of their team was not in Texas due to flight cancellations. A fear many have these days with all the trouble the airline industry was having. They would have just 4 players and a sighted player playing for them.

Before the game even started, we asked them if they wanted to just forfeit so they would have gas in the tank to play their last game. They wanted to play. The available players were all of Long Island’s out-of -towners coming from Jersey, Pennsylvania and California. They even asked Weissman to catch two batters in their lineup so their catcher could hit. This also meant the last spot in their lineup was an automatic out. This game was over before it started.

For Boston, we had rested players in game one and wanted to get timing down to prepare for what many in the league was calling an upset waiting to happen. The upstart, Gateway Archers and Renegades were voted in as the game of the day and would be televised by the league. Some of Boston was sadly going to take BP on the Bombers because they sat out the previous game.

Our pitching plan for this game would be the same for the week. Peter would face David Sanchez, Shayne Cantan, Luis Soto and Ivan Rodriguez. Cochran would get the rest. On the defensive side, Peter would start the game on the right side with Jason Lenicheck on the left side.

This game started off in odd fashion. Joe McCormick led off the game and fouled off 6 pitches in a 9 pitch at bat. He then laced a shot into left field by everyone. There was no base set off and Mac took off toward third base assuming it was just a low base. He hit the base without it ever buzzing and scored. This is the third time in team history a Renegade has scored a run to a base that was not buzzing! We learned in this at bat that a player can run to any base they want and score, it does not need to be the one that is buzzing! An odd start to this game. Shawn Devenish would go down swinging. Then Boston would have one of their biggest innings in team history.

Sanchez would score on a grounder down the third base line in the first pitch he saw Cantan would hit a line drive into left for the third run of the game on the second pitch he saw. Rob Dias would hit his first pitch of the week down the third base line for the third consecutive run. Chris Kimball would find that left side again on a hard grounder and scored on the second pitch of his at bat. McCormick then hit a grounder into left center on the second pitch. This meant the Renegades had scored five straight runs on less pitches than McCormick had in his first at bat. Devenish then got on the board with the best hit of the inning for the 7th run of the frame. Weissman went to the bench and brought in Luis Soto to hit for Sanchez. Soto kept the party going with a fly ball to left field for the 8th run of the inning. Elana Regan came off the bench to hit for Cantan. She hit a fly ball to the center of the field where Damien Gonzalez stopped the bleeding for the second out of the inning. Rob Dias laced a fly ball into left for the 9th run of the inning. Thayer would end the inning with a dribbler up the middle to Casey Bahn. It was an inning that lasted nearly 25 minutes. The Bombers were gassed but not giving up. It was the 12th time in team history the Renegades had scored at least 9 times in an inning and the 5th time it was done in the first inning of a game!

For Long Island, the out-of-towners made this lineup less familiar, even to the Bomber pitcher facing many of them for the first time. Damien Gonzalez struck out to start things off. John Cruz hit a bouncer to the left side. The ball kicked off a diving Shawn Devenish in the 2nd layer and Joe McCormick, playing 3rd base, recovered in time for the stop. Hussani Hill then hit a grounder up the middle that Devenish fielded clean. After one full inning, Boston led 9-0

McCormick would stay hot scoring his 3rd run of the game to start off the 2nd inning. Devenish hit a dribbler off the bottom of his bat by Casey Bahn. Soto would repeat the act and also hit a dribbler that Bahn would charge in in for an easy out. Elana Regan hit a pop fly, but it fell near the forty foot arc and Hussani Hill made the stop.

Due to the shortage of players and the flight cancellation, Weissman would start the second inning as the catcher for Long Island. Casey Bahn would hit a grounder to the left side past Guy Zuccarello who called for help and Joe McCormick would charge the play to make an out while playing third base. This would bring up the head coach/pitcher for the NJ Titans, a sighted player. He hit a dribbler to the left side and took a step to first base before correcting himself. Guy Zuccarello had all day to make the play and that would end the inning because the 6th slot in the order was an automatic strikeout due to the fact the Bombers had only five players. After two innings, Boston led 10-0 on the way to a 12 run rule game.

Drew Crook came off the bench to start the third for his first appearance of the week. Drew laced a grounder that rolled close to 180 feet and score easily. Luis Rodriguez was next as the 11th hitter in the game. He struck out on 4 pitches. The Red Hot McCormick would go deep into the count again. On the 4th pitch he saw, he hit a dribbler of the bottom of his bat to the right side. Bahn charged it but it got by him and Mac’s speed was too much. Mac had 4 runs in the game and the Gades led 12-0. Bahn stopped Devenish and Soto would strike out to end the inning. All Boston needed to do was get three stops and they would not bat again.

The 14 year old left Gonzalez went deep in the count then hit a line drive oppo. It got by McCormick who could not get up and run back in time to pick it up. The long island Titans were on the board. John Cruz then went back-to-back hitting a grounder past a non-committed Shayne Cantan in the middle of the field. Husanni Hill then laced a hard grounder to the left side, Zuccarello dropped to the ground and made a great play on a hard hit. Nestor Gonzalez then stepped to the plate with Weissman doing the catching. He ripped a line drive into left field past a diving McCormick and Luis Rodriguez. He scored. This may have been the first time this father/son duo had ever scored in an inning. They avoided the 12 run rule as they closed the deficit to 12-3.

Boston would have Elana Regan up to start things off in the 4^th with her confidence building. She laced a line drive into left and scored her third run of the series and fourth of the year. Shayne Cantan stepped to the plate for his first at bat of the game and scored easily as dust kicked up from his Godzilla footsteps when he ran to first base. That brought Ivan Rodriguez to the dish. On the first pitch he saw, he hit a dribbler up the middle but no base went off. Ivan called for the late base and was awarded a new at bat. He then laced a line drive up the middle but struggled to get out of the box and was stopped before he ran into the long island bench. McCormick was next and looking for a five run game. For the third time in the game, he worked the count to a full count, taking the third pitch of the at bat. He then caught a ball off the bottom of the bat, raced to first and blew up first base for the third run of the inning and a 15-3 lead. It was just the 4th time he scored 5 runs in a game in his career. Chris Kimball laced a shot foul down the left field side and hit it hard enough that the ball needed to be replaced (not bad for a kid weighing less than 120 pounds). On the 6th pitch of the at bat, he pounded a line drive into left and scored with ease. Luis Soto then had a marathon at bat as well. In the middle if the at bat, Husanni Hill needed to come to the bench as he was suffering from heat issues. On the 8th pitch, he connected with Peter and sent a hard grounder into the outfield for a run. Regan would not have lady luck this time around and went down on 4 pitches. Shayne would put the nail in the coffin and score on a line drive up the middle for the 18th run and the 6th of the inning. Ivan would strike out to end the Renegade offensive attack.

For Long island, they would quickly go into the 12 run rule. Rob Dias would make three stops. Joe McCormick and Shayne Cantan would also make stops and this game would be over. This 14 win Run differential was the third biggest margin in team history and the only time the Renegades had ever won by 14 runs. Boston would have to pack its stuff up and head to a new field as they would play the Gateway Archers in the game if the day on a league stream.

Game #9 – Renegades come out swinging and defeat Gateway 25-15

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	3	8	1	5	4	4	25	6	11
Gateway	3	2	0	4	2	4	15	7	12

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Gateway	AB	R	K	PO
McCormick – 1B/MF	8	6	0	2	Krussell	6	3	1	4
Devenish – MF	5	2	0	2	K. Borah	6	4	1	4
– Kimball – 1B	2	1	0	0	Morrow	3	0	0	1
– Regan – 3B	—	—	—	0	– McCoy	2	0	1	1
Sanchez – DH	6	5	1	—	– S. Borah	1	0	1	0
– Crook – DH	1	1	0	—	Johnston	5	4	1	2
Zuccarello- DF-RS	—	—	—	2	Dillon	5	3	1	0
Cantan – 3B/1B	7	5	2	1	S. Borah – DH	2	0	0	—
Dias – LS	7	2	2	4	– Allen – DH	3	1	1	—
I. Rodriguez – G	0	0	0	0	Sisson – DF	—	—	—	0
– Crook – PH	2	0	1	—
– Kimball – R	2	1	0	0
– L. Rodriguez – R	3	2	0	0

Totals	43	25	6	11	Totals	33	15	7	12
Pitcher- Cochran	30	15	3		Pitcher – Walker
Pitcher – Connolly	13	10	3
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller- Grillo
RS Caller – Lenicheck

Game Summary

Team photo after the Gateway Archer win – everyone on this team contributed to a 3-0 day!

Game number three of the first day of the World Series. Everything the team was working for over the past two weeks was geared to being ready and rested for this game. Sadly, Luis Soto would be ruled out in this match as he was experiencing headaches due to the heat. Everyone else was ready to go! Though the Gateway Archers are a “new team”, Boston was extremely familiar with Johnny Walker and half their starting lineup which had played on other teams over the years.

To say the Renegades were fired up for this game may be an understatement. The league voted for this to be the game of the day because so many teams felt Gateway could upset the Renegades. What was on the mind of the Renegades was excitement and the desire to just play their game.

Boston’s plan from a pitching standpoint would remain consistent for the week. Peter would have Shayne Cantan and David Sanchez in this game. Ron Cochran would have the rest of the lineup. Bryan Grillo would call the left side with Jason Lenicheck calling the right side. Weissman would behind the dish.

Right out of the gate, there was not enough umpires on the field as each team needed to supply a volunteer to man the bases. Weissman complained to the league to no avail that the “game of the day” had to use team’s coaches to umpire the bases. If there was any close play, would everyone be honest?

1st inning

McCormick would lead off and stay red hot with a laser into left field. It was his 7th straight run in the World Series. Shawn Devenish then hit a fly ball to the right side that shot past all three layers of the Archer defense. David Sanchez hit a hard grounder that rolled over 170 feet down the third base line. Sanchez actually missed the base but it was hit so hard and far that he had time to come back to score. It was a great start, but that would be all as Shayne Cantan and Rob Dias went down on strikes and Drew Crook would be stopped by Richie Krussel on a short pop fly to the left side. Not quite the start Boston was looking for as they had a chance to do more damage but gave two gifts to the Archers.

Chris Kimball would sub in for Crook to play defense in the bottom half of the inning. To start things off for the Archers was Richie Krussel who the Renegades had seen for years playing with the Colorado Storm and Indy Edge. Johnny Walker would toe the rubber and he had been pitching to three of the top four hitters in this Gateway lineup for years. Boston had a lot of respect for this pitcher as their lifetime record against Walker was only 5-9. Behind the dish was the actual home grown pitcher for Gateway, Mari Blumenthal. She would be catching Walker and letting this out of town all-star lead her team. Krusell hit the first pitch off Walker’s body to start the game. He then was able to make contact and hit a bouncer up the middle. Devenish over ran it and missed it; McCormick dove and missed it and Kimball was late to the spot as the Archers were on the board. During the play Dias, spiked Devenish and bruised him up a little bit. Devenish, tough as nails, would be ok after a minute. Boston then got their first look at Kyle Borah, a big Right handed bat with pop to all fields. He hit a pop fly that landed in front of Rob Dias. By the time Dias could find the ball, he dove at it and kicked it with his knees and Borah was safe with a defensive blunder. That brought Demetris Morrow to the plate, another long time Colorado player. He hit a grounder down the third base line. Rob Dias made a great play running hard to the line and stopped it nicely. Ethan Johnston was next; another longtime staple of Johnny Walker’s lineups would be in his first series with Gateway. Wearing cleats, because the league would not allow him to play barefoot, Johnston struck out. This brought Chad Dillon to the plate. Dillon had been very vocal on social media over the years that he felt Boston was over rated. This 2nd year left handed hitter had a lot to say during the pandemic that Boston was not a good team. Strong words for someone who had never seen the Gades play. His words were heard by the Renegades. He hit a grounder to the right side. Zuccarello came in and laid out but he kicked the ball about 5 feet away from him and could not recover in time. This tied the game at three. Sean Borah would end the inning on a weak grounder to the left side that scooted past Rob Dias. Dias collected himself and went back after it. He had enough time to make the play as Borah didn’t have enough foot speed to score the run.

2nd Inning

Joe Mac led off the inning and again hit the first pitch on a line. Krussel got in front of it but it bounced off his body and was out of reach for the speedy McCormick. Devenish also hit the first pitch he saw, this time up the middle. Ethan Johnston was playing in the deep middle. He hit the ground and lined it up perfectly making it look easy. Sanchez then hit a slow grounder to the left side. Krusell dove and it went under him for a run. Shayne Cantan lofted the first pitch to him to left field that landed and escaped three defenders for the third run of the frame. Dias struck out for the second time of the game and the second out of the inning. Kimball hit the first pitch he saw down the third baseline. Krussel ran to the line and dropped to his knees and kicked it away. The ball actually ricocheted off the base and back to a surprised Krussel who actually made the play. However, Kimball was too quick for it to matter. That was the fourth run of the inning. McCormick then hit a hard grounder that bounced over Krussell, under a diving Johnston and under Morrow for his third run and the 8th run of the game. Devenish lofted a fly ball to deep right that bounced over Sisson in deep right for the third straight run with two outs. Sanchez then launched a bomb into center field past everyone that rolled past the 170 line for his third run of the match and the fourth straight run. The Archers called for a defensive timeout. This was just the second time in Sanchez’s career he had ever had a 3 run game and the last time was in 2018! Coming out of the timeout, the Archers were trying to stop the rally and the Renegade Mojo. Cantan popped the ball up in the air, but Krussel booted the ball again with his knees. Looking to get going, Dias then launched an absolute bomb into left field. However, the ball was dead. He then hit a bouncer to the right side. Kyle Borah slid to his right and made a nice stop as Dias made two outs in the inning. Boston plated 8 runs and took an 11-3 lead heading to the bottom of the inning. A half inning that took about 21 minutes. This was the 2nd inning in two games which Boston plated at least 8 runs. This was only the 24th inning in team history they had achieved this feat!

The Archers needed an answer. Richie Krussel would lead off for the Gateway squad and hit a weak dribbler to the left side that would only get out to Dias because the fields were fast. Dias crashed in on it on his knees and made the play. Borah then hit a weak grounder to the left side that Dias played poorly. He never laid out and stayed on his knees and the ball rolled by him slowly giving Borah time to score. Morrow hit a grounder up the middle that just got under a diving Dias but Devenish was there to make the stop for the 2nd out. Johnston then lofted a fly ball up the middle. Devenish took a stab at it as he crashed to his left and McCormick took a shallow angle and they both missed the ball on another collision where Devenish got banged up. Chad Dillon struck out to end the threat as Gateway pulled within 6 runs down 11-5.

3rd inning

Chris Kimball would stay in the game and lead off the 3rd inning. He would hit a sharp grounder into left and Kyle Borah was there to make an easy stop as he was moved from the right short spot to a deep left field role. A nice defensive adjustment for the Archers. The scorching McCormick lofted a fly ball that landed near Borah and rolled by Morrow for his 4th run of the game and his 10th run in a row. Devenish hit a hard shot up the middle which Ethan Johnston knocked down with his hand and scrambled to pick up the ball on a bang-bang play. Sanchez would strike out to end the inning as Boston gave the Archers some hope with just a six run lead.

Gateway had the door open for them. The Archer response would not be what they needed. Sean Borah would lead off for the Archers. The left handed Borah hit a weak pop fly to the middle of the field which Dias and Zuccarello both raced in on. Dias called Guy off and make the play quickly. Krussel would go down on strikes. Kyle Borah then hit a grounder up the middle of the field. Zuccarello slid to his right, laid out and stopped the ball quickly for a 1-2-3 inning and a donut for the Archers.

4th inning

Momentum was shifting to the Renegades and the hope was to put the foot on the throat of the Archers squad. Shayne Cantan would foul three balls off and laced a line shot into left field that rolled way past the 170 foot line for an easy run as the spotters stopped their defenders from running into a ditch. Dias would get on the board in this appearance with the confidence of the crushed dead ball he had in his last at bat. He fisted a pop up to the left side that landed in front of Kyle Borah but spun away from him for the second run of the game. Weissman went to the bench and Drew Crook re-entered the game. He would go down on four straight swings. McCormick would not need 4 pitches. In fact, he had scored 4 runs on just 6 pitches coming into this at bat. He hit the first pitch off the bottom of his bat at Krussel, but it rolled up his body and away from him as McCormick scored his 5th run of the game and 11th in a row. Devenish then lofted the first pitch he saw into deep left field. Morrow slid over, laid out and picked up the ball on a bang-bang play. Sanchez lofted a fly ball to the left side but this time Morrow laid out and the ball rolled by his feet as Sanchez scored his 4th run of the game, a career high for him. Shayne Cantan laced a line drive into left that was hit hard enough that it bounced off Kyle Borah and Cantan had his 2nd run of the inning, 4th run of the game. The unlucky Dias then got another ball off the handle and fisted it in the air to Richie Krussel for the last out of the frame. Boston put up 5 runs and took a 17-5 lead. If they could hold the lead, this would enter a 12 run rule.

Things were about to get worse for the Archers. Demetris Morrow would lead off the 4th and hit a ball off the feet of Johnny Walker. On his way to third base before he stopped, he came up lame. He decided to continue but that decision may have been costly. He lofted a high fly ball to the center of the field and Shawn Devenish made a nice play on the hit but Morrow was down with a possible quad injury. His game was over, and possibly his series. Ethan Johnston would hit a ball equally as high but not as far as the ball landed right in front of Rob Dias. He bobbled it as he tried to pick it up but Ethan was too fast and the run was awarded. Chad Dillon hit a flare up the middle of the field. Devenish took a step in the wrong direction, recovered and dove late as the ball arrived the same time as he hit the ground at and it deflected off his hands for a run. Henry Allen came off the bench to hit for Sean Borah. He hit a hard grounder up the middle. McCormick slid to his right and made a perfect play on the ball for the second out of the inning. Krussel hit a nice line drive to the right side, McCormick could not come up with it and the Archers had their 8th run of the game. Kyle Borah hit a hard grounder up the right middle, McCormick laid out for it in deep right but did not line it up well as it rolled by his feet. Liam McCoy would come off the bench for the injured Morrow. He would hit a ball to the left side on the ground that got past a diving Dias, but Shayne Cantan lined it up perfectly for the stop. The Archers had their best inning of the game with 4 runs. The Archers avoided the 12 run rule, but in the process lost one of their starters. The score was 17-9

5th inning

During the break, Shawn Devenish was experiencing heat symptoms. Because the team reviewed the symptoms to look for, he knew he needed to come out of the game. Disappointed, he sat under the tent with a cooling towel on his head as the medical team was called for assistance. His day was over going 2-5 in this game with 2 stops on defense. Luis Rodriguez, who entered the game on defense earlier would lead off for the Renegades. He hit a hard ground ball that bounced by Krussel, Johnston and McCoy as the ball rolled over 170 feet. McCormick would end his run of scoring with a ball off the bottom of Joe’s bat, Krussel stopped McCormick. Chris Kimball would hit for the heat exhausted, Devenish. Kimball hit a line drive to left and flew down the line as the ball kicked off Borah’s legs to make the score 19-9. David Sanchez then hit the first pitch he saw right to the left side coffin corner and raced to first to beat Krussel to the ball for his first career 5 run game and a 20-9 lead. Cantan struck out. Dias then laced a hard grounder to the left side that eluded Krussel, Johnston, Borah and McCoy for his second run of the game. Luis Rodriguez would end the scoring with a hard grounder that Krussel stopped on the dive to his left. Boston put up 4 runs in the inning to cancel out Gateway’s big inning in the 4th. Boston lead 21-9.

Colorado was down 12 again and if they went scoreless would avoid having to go back into the field. Ethan Johnston hit a hard bouncer up the middle. McCormick was playing a new spot in the middle (for the tired Devenish) dove to his right and missed it, Luis Rodriguez lined it up but bobbled it and Johnston was safe. Dillon hit a line drive up the middle on the first pitch he saw. McCormick dove to his right and the ball bounced off him, but he quickly picked it up and he had his second stop of the game in different positions (a McCormick staple…making outs at multiple spots in the defense). Rookie, Henry Allen would go down on strikes. Krussel would hit a high fly to the right side. Chris Kimball, playing first base would hear the ball land over Zuccarello’s head, but as he dove to make the play, he hit the ball with his knees and the ball squirted away. Krussel had his third run of the game. Kyle Borah would end the inning with a strike out. This was the first time all game, Walker would have 2 K’s in an inning as he only had 5 on the day. Boston led 21-11 as the Archers avoided the 12 run rule.

6th inning

Boston would not quit. Walker had beat them too many times and there was too much respect for the Archer pitcher. Memories of Walker coming back to beat the Renegades in 2009 flashed through Weissman’s head. The team needed to keep the pedal to the metal. Mac had seen 8 pitches all game, but in this at bat, he would work a full count and take a pitch with three strikes. He hit a weak grounder up the middle that got by Krussel and slowly rolled to Johnston but by the time he picked up the ball, McCormick had scored, his 6th run of the game and his first ever 6 run game. A feat only accomplished by Christian Thaxton. Kimball then hit a grounder to left field, Kimball called for a late base. Kyle Borah made the stop and the late base was not awarded. Drew Crook came into hit for David Sanchez. Crook hit the first pitch he saw into deep centerfield for his first run of the game and became the 8th Renegade to score a run in this contest. Shayne then laced a hard line drive into the outfield for his 5th run of the game, the first time he had ever scored that amount in a game in his career. Dias then hit a hard grounder on the first pitch to the left side by a diving Krussel, Johnston and Borah, but McCoy made a nice stop as the 4th body on the ball as the Rob Dias luck continued at the plate. Luis Rodriguez then hit a very hard bouncing ball that went by 4 defenders and past the 170 line as he scored his second run of the game. That brought up McCormick for the 8th time. The team record for most runs in a game was 7 by Thaxton in 2018 vs Philly. He would be put out by Kyle Borah in deep left field. Boston had set a team record scoring 25 runs in this game. This surpassed the 23 runs scored against the New Jersey Titans in 2019.

As the Renegades took the field in the bottom of the 6th, Chris Kimball came out of the game as there was concerns about how he may have been handling the heat and there was no need to push him. Elana Regan would take the field at third base as Shayne Cantan would move to first for the Renegade defense.

Liam McCoy struck out to start the 6th. Ethan Johnston was next and had scored three straight runs. He lofted a fly ball to the center of the field; McCormick missed it and Luis Rodriguez tip toed after it for Johnston’s fourth run of the game. Chad Dillon then hit a bouncer up the middle. Zuccarello tracked the ball and called for McCormick to make the play. Mac laid out but the ball went by his feet and then Rodriguez did not lay out and the ball rolled under him. Dillon had his third run of the match. Allen, looking for his first run then hit a bouncer to the left side that got by Dias easily. Elana Regan laid out and the ball went off her hands. McCormick flew over and just missed it as Allen scored the third straight run. Krussel hit a line drive that skipped off Walker, the fifth time he had been hit in this game. On the very next pitch, Krussel hit him for a sixth time. He then hit a weak ball to the right side as Zuccarello dove to his left and made a nice stop as Boston needed just one more to get back to the hotel. That out would not come from Borah. Borah would be the second player to get to four runs for the Archers as he hit a short fly ball to the right side which Guy just missed on a bang-bang play. Sean Borah would re-enter the game and go down on strikes. Boston would win 25-15.

For Boston, Lots of great things happened including the following:

McCormick had the teams 5th ever game with 6+ runs, and the first player not named Thaxton to achieve the feat
Sanchez had his first ever 5 run game
Cantan had his first ever 5 run game
The Renegades set a team record with 25 runs
Boston scored 8 runs in the 2nd inning
Peter Connolly became just the third pitcher in team history to have 10 runs scored off him in a World series game as his hitters were 10-13

The Renegades finished day one with a 3-0 record and would next enter double elimination as the 4 seed.

Game #10 – Boston Stops the Hurricanes 18-5

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	2	4	1	2	9	x	18	3	8
Houston	2	1	0	2	0	0	5	5	12

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Houston	AB	R	K	PO
McCormick – MF	6	4	2	1	Bernet	3	0	2	5
– Thayer – R	—	—	—	0	– Selby	1	0	0	—
Sanchez – DH	6	2	1	—	Boudreaux	3	3	0	3
Zuccarello- DF-RS	—	—	—	3	– Mouton	1	0	0	—
Cantan – 3B	6	3	0	2	Syphers – DH	3	0	0	—
Dias – LS	5	2	0	1	– Munoz – DH	1	0	1	—
Kimball – R	5	3	0	0	Perry – DF	—	—	—	0
– Soto – R/3B	—	—	—	1	Walters	3	2	1	0
Crook – 1B	5	4	0	0	– Bellomy	1	0	1	—
– Regan – 1B	—	—	—	0	Marquez	4	0	2	0
					Biggins	2	0	2	4
					– Navarro	1	0	1	—

Totals	33	18	3	8	Totals	23	5	10	12
Pitcher- Cochran	21	13	2		Pitcher – Burris	16	5	6
Pitcher – Connolly	12	5	1		Pitcher – Gonzalez	7	0	4
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller- Lenicheck
RS Caller – Connolly

Game Summary

Drew Crook had his first career 4-run game, McCormick scored 4 runs as well. Luis Soto records his first ever WS stop on defense

This would be the third coin toss in a row that Boston would lose setting them up as the away team again. Boston was beginning to embrace this role as it liked to score first. For the Renegades, the pitching rotation would be the same. Peter Connolly would get David Sanchez and Shayne Cantan while Ron Cochran would face the rest of the lineup. Peter Connolly would call the right side of the defense while Jason Lenicheck would call the left side. The big internal news on the team was that Shawn Devenish was left at the hotel for this game to help him regulate his body temperature and make sure he could keep food in after is bout with heat the previous day. Again, it was next Renegade up! Drew Crook would get the start and play both ways in this game as he had been limited in his playing time on day one to rest his leg.

Joe McCormick led off the game with a ground ball up the middle and another run as he continued his hot streak. This brought up David Sanchez, hitting 2nd in the lineup for the first time ever. Some people had laughed that the second spot in the lineup was unlucky to Shawn. Would it be unlucky to Sanchez? Sanchez hit it into left field but Doug Biggins, in the third line of defense made the stop on him for the first out of the game. Cantan would then hit a dribbler to the left side. Drew Burnett would collapse on the ball but was unable to pick it up in time as Cantan beat him to third base. Maybe his Godzilla foot steps scared Drew off a little, but it was effective. Dias hit the hardest ball of the inning, but Biggins was there again to make the stop in the 3rd layer of the defense. Kimball would then ground out weakly to Drew Burnett to end the inning. Boston scored a pair and Biggins made two stops. Biggins was a late addition to this team’s roster as he was added after the July deadline. That late addition was killing the Renegades!

Drew Burnett would leadoff for Houston. He last faced the Renegades wearing a BCS Outlaws shirt in 2019. He hit a weak flare to the right side that Sent Guy Zuccarello in on the ball. Guy slid past the ball but was able to come back on it to make the stop. This brought up the president of the NBBA, Blake Boudreaux. Blake last faced the Renegades wearing a Bayou City Heat shirt in 2019. Dias moved to his left but the ball kicked off his body toward the center of the field and Blake scored to put Houston in the board. Dias would make the next stop with ease as the Hurricane hitter slipped and fell as he tried to get out of the box. It would not have mattered as Dias made a great stop in his hands. Jason Walters was next, he was also last playing against the Renegades as a member of the Bayou City Heat. Walters lofted a fly ball up the middle which McCormick came in on, as he slid for the ball he booted it with his knee right to Zuccarello. Guy had crept into the area – but was not low and by the time he got to the ground, Walters had tied the game up. John Marquez, formerly of the Lone Star Roadrunners would go down on strikes to end the frame.

Drew Crook would get his first start of the series and score on a fly ball to deep center to lead off the second inning. McCormick would have a 6 pitch at bat and go down swinging. That brought Peter to the mound, celebrating his wedding anniversary on this day. Sanchez would loft a pop fly with spin on it to the right side. Josh Perry, playing DF raced in on it as Sanchez missed first base. Sanchez was able to come back and hit the base just as Perry was trying to get the ball away from his body for the 2nd run of the inning. Shayne then hit a bomb into left field and ran 4 steps to third base before correcting himself and running to first. He was able to get away with it and scored the third run of the inning. Dias hit another fly ball to left field, right at Biggins who would make his third stop of the game in the third layer of the defense. Kimball would not be denied as he blasted a line drive into left and scored with ease. Crook would be stopped on a grounder up the middle to Blake Boudreaux, who some people think looks like Drew Crook. Boston led 6-2 heading to the bottom of the second.

The Hurricanes would get strike outs from Biggins and Burnett to start the inning. Boudreaux would then score again on another ball hit up the middle. This ball kicked off Joe McCormick’s hands as he went into a dive and the ball rolled into center field. Chris Kimball was called up, but could not find the ball in time to get Blake. The last out of the inning was a pop up to the right side. Guy took one step to his right and laid out as the ball bounced into him perfectly for the out. Boston led 6-3.

The third inning was quick for Boston. McCormick got back in his scoring ways with a ground ball that got slowed down in the first line of defense, but rolled into no-man’s land in the second line of defense. Sanchez hit a line drive up the middle and was stopped by Boudreaux as he slowed up right before hitting the base. Cantan was stopped on a bang-bang play by Burnett. Dias would then hit another chopper to Burnett and had a chance to score, but he went wide of first base and was called out. Some bad base running cost the Renegades 2 runs. The Renegades grew the lead to 7-3

The bottom of the third was not good for Houston. Walters struck out. Marquez grounded to the left side as the call was taking the defense to the line. Dias quickly corrected the call as he over ran it which helped Shayne corrected himself and he stopped the ball with his hands, then got up to pick up the ball in enough time to get Marquez. Biggins who was killing it in the field, whiffed for the second time. Houston had a goose egg in the third.

Chris Kimball would lead off for Boston in the 4th. He would hit a fly ball up the middle of the field which Blake would over run. Houston called for a dead ball, but it was still making noise. This may have been the first ball Kimball knocked the beep down in his career. Drew Crook then laced a hard shot into left field. Biggins was shifted toward the middle where Crook hit it the last time. Biggins dove at the ball and came up just short as Crook touched third base for his 2nd run of the game and the 9th run for Boston. that would be it for Boston as McCormick would whiff for the second time as Sanchez and Cantan would be stopped by Blake Boudreaux. Shayne assisted Blake with bad base running as he took 2 steps to third before correcting and running toward first base which was the third possible run lost for the Renegades. Thanks to the 5& 6 hitters, Boston held a commanding lead after three and a half.

The fourth was similar to the first for Houston. Burnet would strike out to start the inning. Boudreaux would score for the third time as he hit a ball that skipped off the hands of Rob Dias. Dias had to go into foul territory to chase it, but Blake beat it out. the next hitter hit the ball right at Dias again, This time the ball skipped over the hands of Dias and right to Shayne Cantan. Jason Walters then hit a ball down the first bae line to no-man’s land for his 2nd run of the game and the 5th for Houston. Houston would switch pitchers as Gonzalez came into face Marquez. He would hit a grounder to the right side which Zuccarello made a nice diving stop on to end the inning. Boston held a 9-5 lead

The fifth would put the nail in the coffin in this game. Dias would hit a bomb, take one step to the wrong base, but still score on the first pitch he saw. Kimball would hit the ball right at Drew Burnett, who made a nice diving stop for the first out. Crook would go back up the middle this time and Biggins was unable to get him as Crook scored his third run of the game. McCormick scored on a nice line drive for his third run of the game. Sanchez would sacrifice himself again in the second hole as he whiffed and the curse of the second spot in the order was in effect. With the score 12-5, Boston would catch fire. The next 6 hitters would plate runs with a little drama involved. Shayne hit a hard shot into left and scored his third run of the game. Dias scored on a dribbler. Kimball scored on a play that the Hurricanes defense just missed. After a Crook foul ball, some drama ensued. Drew Burnett was rushed off the field by his spotters and he threw up in the third baseline, twice. Weissman argued that he should be removed from the game for player safety to no avail. He also argued that the sanitation of Burnett’s puke was not safe for our runners. The head umpire used the “Renegade shovel” to clean the puke off the field. The concern here was no medical team looked at Burnett. In this heat, there was no guarantee of the root cause, though Houston said this was common for this player due to his medical issues. Weissman’s argument did nothing to convince the head umpire that player safety should be considered. Crook then launched a bomb and easily scored to first base for his first 4 run game of his career. McCormick then put himself into the third full count of the game, but came out of this one with his 4th run of the game. Sanchez made it 18 runs for Boston with a line drive to the right side. That would be it for the Renegades as Cantan grounded out to end the inning. This was just the 13th inning in team history that Boston had plated 9+ runs in an inning and the second time this week.

Houston was down 18-5 and would start to empty the bench. Navarro would whiff to start the inning. Robert Selby hit the ball up the middle of the field. Luis Soto was trying to make a play on the ball when Selby’s team stopped him as he was running at the Houston bench. This was Soto’s first ever World Series put out. Joe McCormick would get a stop off the bat of Hunter Mouton. This would put the game into the 12 run rule. All three hitters in the 6th would strike out to end the game.

Boston was now 4-0 at the Series and had won 9 straight games on the season. Some highlights for Boston included:

⁃ This was only the 19th time in team history, Boston had scored 18+ runs in a game

⁃ The team hit .546 in the game, the 28th best game ever

⁃ This game was tied for the 9th lowest Strike out rate in team history at 9%

⁃ The 13 run differential was tied for third all-time and only the 2nd time in team history it was not against an East Coast team

⁃ Drew Crook had his first ever 4 run game

⁃ Chris Kimball had his first ever 3 run World Series game

⁃ Luis Soto was credited with his first ever World Series defensive stop

Boston would advance in the winners bracket and send the Hurricanes to the losers bracket.

Game #11 – Boston Beats Philly for the 2nd Time in 2022: 19-13

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	2	5	2	7	1	2	19	9	9
Phi	3	2	1	5	1	1	13	9	9

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Philly	AB	R	K	PO
McCormick – MF/LS	7	5	1	3	Rhines	6	1	3	2
Sanchez – 1B/3B	6	3	2	2	T. Rodriguez	5	3	0	3
Cantan – 3B/MF	6	5	0	1	Silver	5	1	2	2
Dias – LS	2	1	0	1	S. Hogwood	5	4	0	0
– L. Rodriguez – R	1	0	1	0	Margist	5	2	2	1
– Kimball – R	3	0	2	0	Lezcano – DH	5	2	2	—
Devenish – DH	6	4	2	—	Krause – DF	—	—	—	1
Zuccarello – DF-RS/MF	—	—	—	1
I Rodriguez – G	0	0	0	0
– Crook – 3B	5	1	1	1
– Kimball – R	—	—	—	0
– L. Rodriguez – R	1	0	0	0

Totals	37	19	9	9	Totals	31	13	9	9
Pitcher- Cochran	25	11	7		Pitcher – P. Krause
Pitcher – Connolly	12	8	2
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller-Grillo
RS Caller – Lenicheck

Game Summary

Shayne Cantan had his 2nd ever 5 run game, David Sanchez made his first ever two defensive stops and Joe McCormick had his 3rd five run game of the week

With 4 straight World Series wins and a 9 game win streak, the Renegades would face off against another team with 4 straight World Series wins. In fact, the last loss this each team had was against each other. The Philly Fire were fired up to get the Renegades back for beating them on their turf just 2 weeks prior to this game. Boston was awarded the 4 seed and the Philly Fire had the 5 seed. The winner of this game would get the top seeded, Indy Edge and would have to play one less game on the week!

For Boston, they would deploy the same pitching rotation., Cochran would have 4 of the 6 starters while Connolly would be facing Cantan and Sanchez. On defense, Grillo would be in the field calling the left side with Lenicheck calling the right side. Neither team was at full strength in this match. For the Fire, both Casey Krause and John Margist were playing with broken pinky fingers earned as a badge of honor running the bases. For Boston, Shawn Devenish would start, but was limited to DH duties as he was recovering from heat issues he had the day before. He was also placed at the bottom of the lineup with the uncertainty of how he would feel during the game. Boston lost the coin flip for the 4th tine in a row and would be the away team.

Joe McCormick got things started with a weak grounder to the left side that Krause could not haul in. David Sanchez then hit a grounder past Krause and Margist which bounced off Justin Rhines for the 2nd run of the inning. Margist would make the next play as he stopped Shayne Cantan for the first out. Dias hit a laser into deep left field, but Rhines would make a nice stop. Devenish would get off to a tough start and would strike out to end the inning.

Justin Rhines would leadoff for Philly but he would start off the game with a strike out. Tyler Rodriguez would bat second in this match as Margist was moved down in the order (possibly due to his broken finger). He hit a grounder to the left side that Dias hit the ground on. The ball was bouncing and bounced off Dias’s body and over him. Dias crawled for the ball on his knees but could not get it up in time. Nick Silver then hit a flare to the right side. Guy took a step to his right and laid out as the ball rolled by where he was standing. Silver missed first base and David Sanchez crept up to make the defensive stop and the 2nd out of the inning. This was the first ever defensive stop by David Sanchez in his career. Hogwood then hit a ball to the left side that went under Dias, Shayne dove and was no-where near the ball and Guy had the ball go under him as well. This tied the game up. Margist then hit a dribbler that barely cleared the 40 foot arc. Dias appeared to get frozen on the call and was late to charge it, he dropped before he got to the ball and this gave Margist the time to score. Lezcano next hit a room service ball to Dias for the last out of the inning. Philly led 3-2.

Drew Crook would enter the game for Chris Kimball. He would hit a ball that got into the third level of the defense as Rhines stopped him on a bang-bang play. McCormick would hit a line drive into the third level and score easily for his 2nd run of the game. Sanchez would go down on 4 straight swings and misses for the second out. Cantan would hit a dribbler but Krause would struggle to pick it up and Cantan was on the board. Dias would then hit a line drive up the middle that bounced of the diving Fire. On the play, Dias would get hurt. He came up lame right as he hit third base. He would have a hamstring injury and he was done for the day as the Renegades hoped it was not something serious. Devenish dug in and missed the first pitch thrown to him. He then fouled 4 pitches off before lofting a fly ball into the outfield for his first run of the day. Crook then hit a bomb thru the trees in deep left field as Justin Rhines ran through the tree line trying to get him out. A sure safety issue as Weissman asked the umpire why the player was allowed to chase the ball through the trees. McCormick would strike out to end the inning. The damage was done, as Boston plated 5 runs, but Dias and Devenish (two of the Renegades better defensive players were both not on the field for defense any longer).

Boston had to make some changes on defense in the second inning. McCormick was moved to play the left shorty position, while Cantan was moved to play mid field and Drew stayed in the game at third base. Luis Rodriguez would play the rover spot. Rhines would lead off the 2nd like he did the first, with a strike out. Tyler Rodriguez would hit a room service ball to McCormick who made the play easily at left shorty. Nick Silver was next, and this time he would hit from the left side. He lofted a spinning fly ball to the left side. McCormick over ran it and it spun away from him for a run. Hogwood then lofted a fly ball to third base. Drew dove to the ground and picked it up just after Hogwood hit the base. Crook would get redemption as he would make a nice play to stop Margist who would make the last out of the inning. After two innings, Boston led 7-5.

Sanchez would lead off the 3^rd inning and after swinging and missing three times, hit a grounder into right field. Nick Silver slid over and made the play right as Sanchez arrived at first base. Shayne got the best of Casey Krause again as the ball kicked past him and Cantan scored easily. Luis Rodriguez would go down on strikes without making contact as he was over swinging. Devenish hit a line drive into left that Rhines bobbled and picked up a hair after Devenish hit third base. Crook would strike out to end the inning. Boston held a 9-5 lead.

Philly would start the third straight inning off with a strike out. This time, Lezcano led off with the whiff. Rhines would strike out for the third straight time for two outs. Tyler Rodriguez hit a slow roller up the middle. McCormick dove at it late and Shayne held his ground at mid field, and Tyler beat out the play for a run. Silver, batting right handed hit a bouncer up the middle on the right side, Zuccarello made a nice play to stop it and pick it up for the out. Boston won the inning again and would lead 9-6.

Weissman pulled the Renegades together before they hit and gave a pep talk. Boston was in the driver’s seat and needed a big inning as momentum was in their favor. McCormick hit another bouncer to the left side and scored. Sanchez hit a hard grounder into right field and would score the 2nd run of the inning. Cantan would loft a high fly ball to the center of the field as Philly called for a dead ball, it was not dead and Boston had three up and three in. Chris Kimball re-entered the game to hit for Luis Rodriguez. Kimball would foul off 4 straight balls down the line before striking out. Devenish hit a line drive by everyone into left center for the 13th run for Boston. Crook would hit a weak grounder to the left side that Tyler Rodriguez would stop. Tyler was moved to this spot when Krause was struggling. McCormick hit a line drive and scored his 2nd run of the inning. Sanchez kept the party rolling with a hard grounder up the middle, and his second run of the inning. Philly had to call a defensive time out as the score was now 15-6. Shayne Cantan then scored on a ball that kicked off Tyler Rodriguez into foul territory. Kimball would have another epic at bat, but would have the same result. His whiff ended the 7 run inning.

Scott Hogwood would lead off the 4^th for Philly and for the first time all game, they would not strike out to start the inning. Instead, he would hit a grounder to the left side. McCormick was late to get down and it rolled by him, Kimball hit the ground with poor form and the ball kicked off his knees as Hogwood scored. Margist whiffed without making contact. Lezcano lined a ball to the right side by a diving Sanchez for his first run of the game. Rhines finally got things going with a nice pop fly to the left side over McCormick. Crook slid to his left and dove and missed it, Kimball was late to the ground and Rhines had his first run of the game. Tyler hit a hard grounder down the third base line and scored. Silver (batting left handed) struck out for the 2nd out of the inning. Hogwood hit a hard grounder to left center and Kimball missed it for the final run of the inning as Margist whiffed for the 2nd time in the inning. Boston escaped with all three outs coming by the way of the whiff. This was Philly’s best inning, but their 5 runs still lost the inning and Boston led 16-11.

Devenish was hot, scoring three straight times on hard hit balls. This time in the 5th, he came up empty and struck out for the 2nd time of the game. Crook then hit a weak pop fly that landed at about 50 feet. The defense was frozen by the big swing as Tyler Rodriguez sprinted forward as the lumbering Crook was put out just before he hit the base. McCormick then got his 5th run of the contest. Sanchez struck out to end the inning as Boston only scored a single run, their worst output of the day. Boston held a 17-11 lead.

Cesar Lezcano would get things started in the 5th, and for the 2nd inning in a row, Philly would get a lead-off run hitting a grounder down the third base line that kicked off McCormick into foul territory for a run. Rhines hit a ball up the middle and Shayne Cantan checked in with his first defensive stop of the day making a nice diving play to his right. McCormick made a nice play on a slow roller to the third base line and easily stopped it with his belly. Silver whiffed, batting right handed. Philly wasted an opportunity to win the inning and Boston had a 17-12 lead heading into the 6th inning.

Shayne Cantan got things started in the 6th with a blast on the first pitch he saw, into left field, for his best hit of the game and just his 2nd 5 run game in his career! Kimball would make contact with the first pitch he saw but Krause would stop him in the middle of the field. Devenish would score on a weak grounder up the middle. This would bring Luis Rodriguez to the plate in Crook’s spot. On the 7th pitch of the at bat, he hit a dribbler up the middle and was stopped by Nick Silver who was moved to play the right short position. McCormick would be stopped by Tyler Rodriguez to end the inning. Boston got 2 insurance runs and led 19-12 heading into the bottom of the 6th.

Scott Hogwood who had 4 straight runs hit a hard grounder to the left side. Mac dove and missed it, Shayne threw his feet to the ball and missed it but David Sanchez made the stop in the third layer for his 2nd career stop on defense! Margist then hit a ball off McCormick that went into foul territory as Margist scored. Lezcano struck out for his 2nd time and the 9th time for Philly for the 2nd out. Rhines then hit a grounder to McCormick, Mac slid to his right and as he went into his dive, the ball kicked off his body and up in the air. Mac rolled over and caught the ball as it came down for a circus out. Boston had won!

Boston had won 10 in a row. This was a big gut check game with Devenish returning from heat issues and Dias getting hurt. The Renegade defense held on and got big contributions from David Sanchez and Drew Crook on defense. Offensively, McCormick and Cantan had 5 run games while Devenish pitched in four. McCormick also paced the defense with three stops as Sanchez kicked in two – for the first two of his career. Boston stayed alive in the winners bracket. They would play the top seeded Indy Edge on the next day. Philly would go to the losers bracket to take on the Tyler Tigers.

Game #12 – Boston Runs Into Trouble & Loses to the Edge 16-5

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Edge	11	5	x	x	x	x	16	2	16
Boston	3	0	1	0	0	1	5	2	4

Indy Edge	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
E. Rodriguez	4	4	0	9	McCormick- LS	1	1	0	0
Mulherin	4	2	1	4	– Thayer – PH	3	0	0	—
Corian White	4	3	0	2	Devenish – MF	1	1	0	0
Corey White	3	2	0	0	– I. Rodriguez – PH	3	0	0	—
– Wiley	1	0	1	0	Cantan – 1B/3B	1	0	0	2
Holland	3	3	0	0	– Soto – PH	3	1	0	—
– Dobbs	—	—	—	0	L. Rodriguez – 3B/R	4	0	0	0
See – DH	3	2	0	—	Crook – DH	1	1	0	—
Morris – DF	—	—	—	1	– Regan – 3B	3	0	2	0
					Kimball -DF- R/1B	—	—	—	1
					Zuccarello – RS	3	1	0	1

Totals	22	16	2	16	Totals	23	5	2	4
Pitcher – Kennedy					Pitcher – Cochran	21	11	5
					Pitcher – Connolly	7	3	3
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Connolly
					RS Caller -G. Devenish

Game Summary

Four teams entered Thursday alive in double elimination without a loss. Those four teams were the three seed, Indy Thunder, the ten seed Austin Blackhawks, the four seed Renegades and the one seed, Indy Edge. These teams would all just have one game to play on this day regardless of the result of the game.

The Indy Edge had won every game they had played during the 2022 season and most of them had been by the 12 run rule. Boston would be facing its toughest opponent of the season. For the Renegades, they actually won the coin toss and chose the home team. Bryan Grillo and Jason Lenicheck would call the defense. Connolly would start the game with Cantan and Sanchez as his hitters, while Cochran would have the rest of the starting lineup. Rob Dias would be ruled out for this game due to his hamstring injury. Either way, Boston would only be playing one game on this day because this was the final round where there was only 4 teams standing without a loss in double elimination.

This would start really bad for the Renegades and it would ultimately get even worse. Eric Rodriguez would lead off for the Edge and with a full count would hit a grounder down the third base line that no Renegade came close at making an out on as McCormick and Luis Rodriguez dropped to the ground too early. Nick Mulherin would then hit a bomb into right field past everyone for an easy score. Corian White would hit a grounder up the middle, Devenish just missed it as it went under him for a run. Corey White then hit the very next pitch on the ground right at McCormick but he missed it. Rodriguez missed it and Kimball could not get it in time. Holland then hit a weak grounder at McCormick, but he misplayed the ball for the Edge’s 5th straight run. Aaron See then launched a fly ball into right center. Shayne Cantan over ran it and could not recover in time for 6 straight runs without a stop. Rodriguez came up for the 2nd time and hit a fly ball to the right side right at Cantan. Shayne had one chance to make the play and it got by him for the 7th run. Boston would call time out and have Shayne, Rodriguez and Kimball change positions. Mulherin would whiff for the first out. Corian White then hit a fly ball to the left side that bounced off Shayne Cantan for the 8th run of the frame. Cory White hit a laser down the third base line. Cantan fell to the ground and the ball hit him but got by him. White missed first base and that gave Shayne enough time to recover for the second out of the inning. Another gift by the Edge. Holland should have been the last out of the inning as hit a dribbler up the middle that Guy Zuccarello was all over, but the base operator was not paying attention and the base did not go off. That allowed the Edge to continue batting practice on the Renegades. Holland worked the count full then blasted a ball right at Chris Kimball who could not make the play. See hit a fly ball up the middle, just over McCormick’s head and Devenish could not get the ball up in time. Rodriguez scored his third run in the inning on a grounder to the right side. Mulherin would then it a slow grounder to the right side just under a diving Zuccarello but Chris Kimball lined this up for the only real stop of the inning. The Edge scored 11 runs. This was only the third time in Renegade history that a team scored 11 or more runs against them in an inning. The last time it happened was in 2019 in the 2nd inning against the San Antonio Jets in pool play.

A very big hole was dug as Boston played horrible defense and the Edge hit the ball everywhere and hard. The bats would need to get going fast. McCormick would deliver with a line drive down the third base line on the first pitch he saw for a run. Devenish would also hit a hard shot into deep left , giving the Renegades a little life. Shayne Cantan then lofted a fly ball to Rodriguez. Shayne ran wide of first base and was put out. Luis Rodriguez would hit a dribbler up the middle and would be stopped by Eric Rodriguez. This brought Drew Crook to the plate. This also brought controversy. Drew hit a blast into left field which sent Marc Morris into the trees. The umpire yelled stop as his eyes were on Morris and he did not want him to get hurt, but yelling stop freezes the base runner as well. For safety, it was a do over. Drew hit the next pitch even further, through the tree line. Boston thought this was a run but the umpires made us redo this again. An argument ensued because of the inconsistency of how this was called all week. Boston felt punished for hitting the ball too hard with the fact the trees were so close to the field. In prior games this was called an automatic run and the defense was stopped for safety. The head umpire was called over to discuss this and player safety. After a discussion with the head umpire, the umpires felt it was umpire discretion. Weissman argued that player safety needed to be considered here and that no player should be running into the trees and that anyone calling stop should be allowed to help players be safe. Weissman lost this battle. Crook showed his mental toughness as he was not given a fresh count and hit a weaker ball that got past Rodriguez for the third run of the at bat. The Edge thought it was a dead ball, but it was still beeping faintly. Zuccarello would hit a line drive up the middle and would be stopped by Eric Rodriguez. The Edge held an 11-3 lead heading into the 2nd inning.

Corian White would lead off and hit a fly ball to the right side. Devenish ran over and slid knocking the ball down but not making the play as the Edge kept on rolling. Corey White then laced a line drive to the left side that Shayne Cantan could not make a play on. Holland scored on a dribbler right at McCormick, the ball went under McCormick’s hands, He called for Shayne to come up, but Shayne bobbled the ball and Holland had a run. Aaron See then hit a grounder to the right side that Zuccarello laid out for and stopped for the first out of the inning. That brought up Eric Rodriguez and this is where things got worse. He hit a shot into right field that Kimball gave chase to, into the trees. He had no time to stop as the tree line was less than 10 feet from the right field line. He bounced off the tree and went down screaming in pain. Play was stopped on multiple fields as Kimball awaited the medics. A truly scary time for everyone on the Renegades and everyone watching at home. This injury rocked the Renegades hard. Weissman attempted to talk to the umpires about why they had been calling things wrong in relation to the trees and that umpire discretion was not going to work earlier in this game. Sadly, the proof cost Kimball a major injury and a trip in an ambulance to the hospital. The Renegades were furious but at the same time shaken up at what had just happened to their very own, Chris Kimball who was appearing in his first ever World Series.

This play was not done over as what had happened to Crook earlier because the stop call came from the Renegades and not the umpire. The pure lack of regard for player safety could have been much worse as Chris was inches away from going head first into the tree. Boston voted as a team if they wanted to continue playing with the score 15-3. They voted to play. This brought Elana Regan on to the filed for Boston. The Edge would get one more run from Mulherin, before Shayne Cantan stopped Corian White and Jacory Wiley struck out.

Boston decided to empty the bench at this point with the goal of keeping their remaining players healthy for their next game which would be a must win game to avoid elimination. Rob Thayer, Ivan Rodriguez, Luis Soto and Elana Regan were all in the game now. The game would enter the 12 run rule after Thayer, Ivan and Soto made outs in the bottom of the second inning. Their 10 game win streak would come to a halt (This was the 4th time the Renegades have won at least 10 games in a row with the career best being 12 in 2016 & 2018)

The only highlights for the rest of the game for Boston would be that Zuccarello and Soto would plate runs. The Edge would have an easy 16-5 victory. Thankfully, news would break from the hospital, that Kimball’s x-rays were negative and the initial diagnosis was a bone bruise. This game was a beat down on so many levels as the Renegade defense struggled. This was one of the worst defensive games Boston had played in its history as it made just 20% of the stops in this game (and one was a gift due to a missed base). A key Renegade was lost for the season as the team prayed for Kimball’s health. The Edge would eventually roll through the entire league and win the series. This was no surprise to anyone in the league. There was only 2 starters on this team from the 2019 Edge team which Boston defeated. Since 2019, the Edge recruited one exciting player in Aaron See but then raided other teams for four of their starters.

Game #13 – Jets take off against Renegades 15-5

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
San Antonio	2	7	6	x	x	x	15	4	14
Boston	1	1	0	0	2	1	5	4	5

San Antonio	AB	R	K	PO	Boston	AB	R	K	PO
Smith	4	4	0	0	McCormick- RS/LS	2	2	0	1
Arambula	4	2	1	7	– L. Rodriguez – PH	2	0	0	—
Cox	4	3	0	0	Devenish – MF	2	0	0	3
W. Lopez	4	2	1	3	– Thayer – PH	2	0	0	—
Castaneda	4	1	2	4	Sanchez – DH	2	0	0	—
R. Almanza	4	3	0	0	– I. Rodriguez – DH	2	0	1	—
					Dias – DF-3B	—	—	—	0
					Cantan – R	4	2	1	1
					I. Rodriguez – G	0	0	0	0
					– L. Rodriguez – 1B	0	0	0	0
					– Crook- PH	1	0	0	—
					– Regan – 1B	—	—	—	0
					– Soto – PH	3	1	1	—
					Zuccarello- LS/RS	2	0	1	0
					– Regan – PH	1	0	0	—

Totals	24	15	4	14	Totals	23	5	4	5
Pitcher – J. Lopez					Pitcher – Cochran	12	2	1
					Pitcher – Connolly	11	3	3
					Catcher- Weissman
					LS Caller-Grillo
					RS Caller -Lenicheck

Game Summary

WS Coaching staff for 2022 from Left to right – Gina Devenish, Bryan Grillo, Peter Connolly, Ace Lenicheck, Ron Cochran and Rob Weissman

The Renegades were excited for this game. For Boston, Bryan Grillo and Jason Lenicheck would call the game for the team on defense. Ron Cochran would face all the hitters in the starting lineup other than Shayne Cantan and David Sanchez, who would face Peter Connolly. Chris Kimball was out of this game with a shoulder injury and Rob Dias was limited to defense with a hamstring injury. Boston was not at full strength, but then again, few teams are on Friday of the World Series.

For the Jets, Jeremy Lopez would be pitching, taking over for the legendary Kevin Sibson who retired after the 2021 season as one of the best pitchers in league history. David Smith led this game off with a fly ball to left field, Shayne Cantan was waiting for it but tried to play it on a bounce and did not line it up perfectly, as the Jets got on the board. Zach Arambula would give Boston a gift with a rare strike out. Axel Cox then hit a shot into left field that actually hit a standing Shayne Cantan in the feet as the call likely took him in the wrong direction off the bat. Lopez and Castenada would strike out to end the inning. The Jets led 2-0.

Boston would get one run back real quick as Joe McCormick stayed hot with a line drive score. Devenish would not have the same luck as he hit a grounder to the left side and was stopped by Zach Arambula up front in the Jets defense. Sanchez was put out on a bang-bang play by Will Lopez that was due to poor base running. Cantan would go down on swings as Boston cut the lead in half 2-1.

Rene Almanza would lead off for the Jets in the top of the second inning. He would hit a short grounder just past the 40 foot arc as Zuccarello raced in and dove by it. By the time he recovered, Almanza was at the base. Smith would beat the Renegade defense with a ball hit into right field that McCormick chased but turned the wrong way on when he came out of his route and Smith had two runs for the game. Arambula then hit a dribbler to the left side that Guy dove for and missed as it went past his feet. Dias crept in a little too far and it got by him as well for a run. Cox then hit a dribbler up the middle where McCormick, Zuccarello and Devenish converged on the ball but as Guy picked up the ball, Cox beat it out in less than 5 seconds. Lopez lifted a high fly to third base. Dias had it lined up, but the ball took a sec to roll to him and Lopez scored. This was four in a row for the Jets, where three of them did not get beyond 100 feet. Ricky Castaneda actually had the 2nd best hit of the inning with a line drive up the middle, Devenish dove to his right to make a nice play. Almanza hit a fly ball up the middle, which Devenish ran by and by the time he could correct himself, Rene had scored the 8th run for the Jets. Smith then hit a slicing fly ball to the right side which hit the ground and spun toward the line. Zuccarello who switched to the right side fell short of it where it originally landed and Smith scored his third run of the contest. Arambula then lofted a short fly ball to the left side. McCormick caught it on one bounce on a very nice play. Axel Cox then hit a grounder through the first two layers of defense as Shayne Cantan dove and stopped it with his feet for the final out of the inning. The Jets put up 7 runs and led 9-1 after one and a half. The 7 runs scored in this inning matched the 36th time Boston had let up 7 or more runs in an inning in its history. It was the second time in the past two games.

Crook would enter the game to hit for Luis Rodriguez, but would ground out to Zach Arambula who made a nice play near the base. Zuccarello hit a line drive up the middle, but struggled to find third base as he ran past it and tagged it a little late as he was stopped on a bang-bang play by Castaneda. McCormick stayed hot with another line drive base hit. Devenish then hit three bombs foul before getting one fair but will Lopez made a very nice play to stop Devenish, who missed the base. Boston. After two full frames, it was Jets 9 and McCormick 2. Boston had lost three runs to bad base running.

Will Lopez would lead off after making a great stop in deep left field. His first hit was to the left side but the ball was called dead. He would then hit a ball that just cleared the 40 foot arc. McCormick crashed in on it, hit the ground a few feet too early and awkwardly crawled to the ball flipping on his back and picking up the ball behind his head. The umpire thought the ball was pinned against his body, but in reality it was pinned against his hat which was off his head. The challenge by Weissman went unchanged (further showing that the “away from the body” part of the possession rule is very hard for an umpire to call because they do not have all the angles). Castaneda struck out on 4 swings and missed. Rene Almanza then hit a hard grounder right at Dias at third base. Dias went to the ground at the same time the ball arrived and it bounced away from him toward the line and he could not recover. Smith hit a bomb into the third layer of the Renegades defense as Shayne Cantan came up short and the ball rolled well by him. Arambula blasted a shot into left that Cantan had one shot on and took two steps in the wrong direction for the 12th Jets run as their bats were heating up. Cox lofted another fly ball into left field. Cantan hit the ground too early and another run scored. The Jets who started the game hitting a bunch of crap inside 100 feet but using their speed to score were now showing their skills as they had hit three bombs in a row. Devenish made another nice diving play going to his right to stop Will Lopez. Castaneda when right back at Devenish, Shawn slid to his right and did not use proper fundamentals as the ball kicked off his hands and over him for the 15th Jets run of the game. Almanza went to Devenish again and he made a nice play moving to his left for the final out of the inning.

Down 15-2, The Renegades were staring at the 12 run rule for the second time in a row. It was imperative to have a good inning. Sanchez hit a weak grounder to the left side that Arambula gobbled up. Cantan hit a harder ball to the left side with the same result as Arambula made a clean play for the out. Luis Soto entered the game to hit for Elana Regan who played the previous inning at first base, He would strike out. This was the end of the third inning and Boston would be 12-runned. It was the 25th time in team history the Renegades had been 12-runned and 7th time since 2015.

Boston would go to the bench at this point with the goal of saving legs for the last game of the season as this would eliminate the Renegades. The low lights continued. Ivan Rodriguez hit a ball to the right side and the base never went off, but he did not call for it and was called out. In the 5th inning, Boston got back to back scores from Shayne Cantan and Luis Soto. Shayne also scored in the 6th. The final score was 15-6. It was not the best Renegade performance. This eliminated the Renegades from the title. Boston would then wait for more than an hour for the loser of the Philly Fire and Indy Thunder game.

Game #14 – Renegades finish in 5th place with a 16-13 victory over Indy

	1	2	3	4	5	6	R	K	Put outs
Boston	2	6	0	3	3	2	16	6	12
Indy	1	1	6	3	0	2	13	6	12

Boston	AB	R	K	PO	Indy	AB	R	K	PO
McCormick – LS	4	4	0	3	Ikramullah	5	3	1	2
-L. Rodriguez – R	2	2	0	0	– J. Michaels	1	0	0	2
– Regan- R/RS/1B	—	—	—	0	M. Lewis	5	2	0	3
Devenish – MF	6	4	1	3	-Rodenbeck	0	0	0	0
Sanchez – DH	6	3	1	—	Smith – DH	5	3	0	—
Dias – DF-3B/RS	—	—	—	2	C. Woodard – DF	—	—	—	0
Cantan – 1B/3B	6	0	2	3	Gregory	5	3	0	0
I. Rodriguez -G	0	0	0	0	Dickey	5	0	5	1
– Crook – PH	1	0	0	—	Berry	5	2	0	4
– L. Rodriguez – R	—	—	—	0
-Soto -1B	3	0	1	0
-L. Rodriguez – R	1	0	0	0
Zuccarello- RS/LS	5	3	1	1

Totals	34	16	6	12	Totals	31	13	6	12
Pitcher- Cochran	19	13	2		Pitcher – J. Woodard
Pitcher – Connolly	15	3	4
Catcher- Weissman
LS Caller- Grillo
RS Caller – Lenicheck

Game Summary

The last game of the 2022 season was a placement game for 5th place. The game would be against the 5-time World Champion, Indy Thunder. Sadly, the Thunder were ripped apart over the off season as 4 of their starters left for other teams. They also had two major injuries to other key players. They really did an amazing job at rebuilding their team and they had some big wins during the week including a victory over the Bayou City Heat.

Boston had a long wait for this game as the Philly Fire played a tight game with the Indy Thunder that eliminated the Thunder 15-13. Boston would avoid a 4^th match against Philly for the 2022 season as hilly would lose their next game to the Jets and finish in 4^th.

Boston would have Bryan Grillo and Jason Lenicheck call this game. Peter would be facing David Sanchez and Shayne Cantan in this game, while Ron Cochran would have the rest of the starting lineup. Rob Dias would play in this game, though injured. Chris Kimball was unavailable. Boston would win the coin toss and unknown to the coach, the players chose the away team because of the two back-to back losses incurred as the home team and all three losses on the season as the home team.

Joe McCormick would lead off this game and on the third pitch hit a grounder that he would beat out. This would be Ron Cochran’s 2,000th run he had let up in his career! Devenish would get 2,001 with another hard grounder. David Sanchez then hit a line drive out to Dylan Berry in left field. At first, there was a break for a dead ball. The ball had noise in it, but then Indy challenged the call and the run was over turned as Dylan Berry made the first defensive stop of his career. Cantan would whiff and this brought Drew Crook to the plate. He would hit a shot into the deep outfield, but his leg gave out on him on the way to third base and he dropped in a heap in front of the Renegade bench. He had been holding off a tweaked groin all week, but in this game, the luck had run out. He re-injured a leg muscle and his Series was over. This was a tough break for Drew as he had worked very hard to keep his legs healthy and he set a career high for at bats in a season with 28 (he had 19 in his first two seasons). Boston held a 2-0 lead, but losing Drew was on the minds of many of the players. Luis Rodriguez would enter the game to play defense for Crook.

The Thunder would have Jarred Woodard on the mound. About a month earlier, Woodard suffered a cracked jaw when he was hit in the face with a line drive. He recovered and came back for the series sporting a helmet and face mask to protect him. He is a gamer and a warrior. After a lead off strike out, Michael Lewis hit a dribbler to the 40 foot arc. McCormick flew in on it and slid over the ball, when he went back to get it, he knocked it away from himself and Lewis put Indy on the board. Kevin Smith then hit a ball into left field that Luis Rodriguez fielded just after he hit the base, but the ball was dead and the play would be replayed. Smith would then hit another dead ball slow roller to McCormick, who made the play as the ball started to beep again. Gregory would then hit a grounder to McCormick and the ball would hop over his legs, McCormick would recover in time to make the out. Boston led 2-1 after one inning.

Guy Zuccarello led off the 2nd inning with a run scoring shot off his bat into left field. McCormick would score his second run of the game on a ball that cleared all three layers of the Thunder defense. Devenish would make it three in a row with a blast off his bat as well. Sanchez would score on a fly ball to center field to keep the streak alive. Cantan would be stopped on a weak flare to Michael Lewis. This brought Luis Soto into the game to hit for Luis Rodriguez. Ikram would stop him. Zuccarello would score the 2nd run of the inning as Irkam misplayed the ball for the Thunder. McCormick would score again on a ball that went past all three layers of the defense for his 2nd run of the inning. That gave Boston a 6 run inning! Devenish would be stopped in left field, by Rookie Dylan Berry. Boston was feeling very comfortable, probably too comfortable.

The Thunder would start two rookies in this game for experience. Chase Dickey would lead off and come up empty with a whiff. Dylan Berry hit a weak bouncer up the right side. Zuccarello misplayed it and Berry missed the base as Shayne Cantan made the stop for the 2nd out of the inning. Ikram then hit a grounder that got past McCormick and Dias at third to give Indy their second run of the match. Michael Lewis then hit a slow roller to McCormick who made the play as the ball went between his knees and he was able to get it off the ground in time. Boston led 8-2.

The third would be a bad inning for Boston. Sanchez started it off with a high fly to the right side with a lot of spin on it. He had enough time to score as Michael Lewis struggled to find the spinning ball, but Sanchez ran wide of third base and could not recover in time. Another missed base for Boston, in one of their worst base running years ever. Cantan would hit a lazy fly ball to Ikram, and would be stopped. This brought Luis Rodriguez to the plate to hit for Soto. Lrod may have had his best hit of the season, but Dyllon Berry was there in the third layer to make the stop for a Thunder 1-2-3 inning.

The bottom of the third got worse for the Renegades. Kevin Smith launched a ball into left field. Luis Rodriguez pretty much tip toed to the ball, Smith missed the base and about 9 seconds later, Smith hit the base before Rodriguez went after the ball. Woodard, like a shark smelled blood and on the next pitch found Rodriguez again and scored as Lrod struggled to find the ball and be aggressive. Dickey whiffed for the 2nd time in the game. Then his diminutive rookie teammate, Berry hit a weak grounder up the middle. McCormick tried to make the play on his knees and misplayed it for the third run of the inning. Ikram then hit a line drive up the middle. Shawn over ran it, Lrod dove feet first at the ball and it hit him in the shins. By the time he reached to get it- Ikram was safe. Michael Lewis then went back to left center, Devenish missed it and Lrod was slow to the ball and picked it up right after Lewis made the base. Shayne Cantan stopped the bleeding with Kevin Smith up as he was able to make a stop off a bouncer in right field. Gregory tied the game up with a hard line drive past a diving Dias and past Luis Rodriguez who never hit the ground on the ball. Dickey would strikeout for the third time in the game..but the Renegades had fallen asleep at the wheel and let one of the best teams in the game back in the game.

The Renegades sure lacked energy. One of the hardest players in team history to strike out was up next, Guy Zuccarello. He went down on 4 pitches to lead off the 4th inning. McCormick blasted a shot into left field to score his 4th run of the game. Devenish accomplished the same feat and scored his 3rd run of the game. Sanchez then hit the 3rd consecutive pitch into center field and scored his 2nd run of the game as the 1-2-3 hitters all plated runs to breathe some life into the Renegades. Cantan would ground out to Chase Dickey and Luis Soto would hit a 40 foot arc dribbler to Michael Lewis. Boston led 11-8 heading to the bottom of the 4th. However, McCormick tweaked a hamstring and would come out of the game as Elana Regan entered to play defense at right shorty.

It was going to be a rookie battle. Boston knew that Dyllon Berry was going to hit it to Regan. Woodard knew it, Berry knew it, Weissman knew it and Regan knew it. He hit it to her left and she angled back at it and dove too soon. She did get a hand on it but knocked it away and then hesitated before going after it. Berry was safe with his 2nd run of the game. Ikram then hit a grounder to the left side where Zuccarello was now playing. He was a little late to the ground and the ball rolled over him and out to Dias who came in on it, dropped to his knees and booted it away with his hands. Michael Lewis then hit a ball past a diving Zuccarello and Shawn Devenish made a nice stop for the first out of the inning. Kevin Smith then launched a fly ball to the right side. Cantan had it lined up when Devenish dove in front of him and booted it away to tie the game at 11. Zuccarello would make a nice stop on Gregory on a slow roller for the 2nd out and Berry whiffed for the 4th time to end the inning.

In the 5^th, Zuccarello would then hit a weak pop fly to the middle of the field. He actually missed first base but was able to come back and touch it because Ikram and Lewis collided on the play. They would both stay in the game. Luis Rodriguez would reenter the game for the injured Joe McCormick. Rodriguez took the count to three strikes and hit a line drive into center field for a big run in a big moment. Devenish struck out. Sanchez then blasted a bomb into center field but he stood in the box for a split second like he did in Philly 2 weeks earlier before jogging to third base and scoring. Another gift for the Renegades. Cantan and Soto would go down on strikes to end the inning. Boston would take a 14-11 lead into the bottom of the 4th inning.

Boston would move its defense a bit in the bottom of the 5th. Weissman moved the gimpy Dias to the right shorty position as Luis Rodriguez re-entered into the rover spot. Cantan moved to play third base Berry hit a ball right to Dias for the first out of the inning. Ikram then hit a fly ball up the middle that bounced twice as Shawn tried to get it…with his number on his shirt turned to home plate, he was able to track the ball and pick it up in time. Shayne made a nice play at third vs Michael Lewis as the defensive changes represented two of the outs in the inning. Boston’s defense had their first 1-2-3 inning.

Would choosing the visiting team come back to haunt the Renegades with a three run lead going into the last inning? Indy made a few defensive changes of their own as James Michaels entered to play the left short spot and Adam Rodenbeck came in for Lewis. Michaels would stop Zuccarello for the first out. Rodriguez would hit a smash by all three layers for his second run of the game, his 100th run of his career and a big insurance run on the first pitch he saw. Devenish would hit a dribbler that froze Michaels and scored another insurance run for Boston. That would be all Boston would get as Sanchez went down swinging and Cantan grounded out to Michaels to complete his first 0-6 of the year at the plate.

Down by 5 runs, Indy was in reach of this game as they are never out of it with the league’s best pitcher on the mound. Kevin smith (2-4 on the day) hit a fly ball up the middle and Shawn and Lrod struggled to make the play. Gregory (2-4) then hit a grounder to the left side. Zuccarello missed it, Shawn ran a long distance to his right and missed it. Rodriguez never hit the deck and Indy was now down 16-13. Boston would get a break as Dickey whiffed for the 5th time in the game. Dias would make his second stop of the game off the bat of Berry. James Michaels would then hit a line drive up the middle. Shawn Devenish made a great diving play and stopped the ball in his chest. Boston won the game and finished the season in 5th place. This was the sixth top 5 finish in a row for the Renegades. This was also the first time Boston had beaten Indy since 2015 to snap a 4 game losing streak.

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