Andre Chiefs

East Boston & Lexington, MA- It wasn’t the longest game ever played but it sure seemed that way. A little under twenty-four hours after it began, spanning two cities and surviving a curfew and a late venue change, the Chiefs and Bombers finally decided Game Four of their best of five semi-final series on Wednesday. For the Chiefs it was well worth the wait as they came out on top 7-6 in ten innings.

With the win, the Chiefs wrapped up the semi-final series three games to one and earned themselves a ticket to the ICL’s Championship Series against the Lexington Blue Sox. 

Mike Andre carried the Chiefs offense driving in four of the Chiefs seven runs, crushing a three run homer, his second of the series, in the first inning, accounted for the tying run on a double play ball in the seventh (no rbi) and putting the Chiefs ahead 6-5 with a RBI single with two outs in the ninth. 

Ryan McNeill started for the Chiefs and worked into sixth, leaving in favor of Dan Lozeau. Lozeau, surrendered the lead in the inning as the Bombers went ahead 5-4, but only briefly as the Chiefs evened things up in the seventh. 

Andre gave the Chiefs the lead again in the top of the ninth and it appeared that it was going to stay that way until Josh Klimkiewicz delivered a long two out RBI single in the bottom of the inning, scoring Jay Defilippo who had drawn a walk, putting things even at 6-6 just before the curfew at East Boston Stadium brought the proceedings to a halt. 

Rookie Hal Landers collected the eventual game winner in the top of the tenth, when the game resumed in Lexington, driving home fellow rookie Dario Pizzano who had doubled and was sacrificed to third by Bob McCarthy. 

Dylan Ellis came on for the Chiefs in the bottom of the tenth inning to earn the save for Lozeau who picked up his second win of the series. Colin Quirk took the loss for the Bombers in relief of Mike Hashem who went the first seven innings.