Reading Bulldogs

Reading vs. Wakefield Merchants  8-1-13 at Morelli Field

 

Wakefield (9)-  Tarantino 4-1, Searles 5-3,  Ramsey 5-0,Gendron 3-2, Losanno 3-1, Davison 4-3, Barry 3-2, Bundock 2-0, Sorrentino 2-0, Murray 4-2  Totals 35-14

 

Reading (3)–  Hartwell 4-2 Oringer 4-1, Talis 3-1 N. Conti 3-1, Taylor 2-2,  Padovani 3-1, Sitarz 3-0,  Wolfsberg 3-0, Halsey 3-1  Totals 28-9

 

Wakefield  000 621 0   -9

Reading    300 000 0   -3

 

Doubles -Conti, Searles

Triples- Losanno

Home Runs- Taylor, Barry

 

WP- Fisher

LP- Boyle

 

 

 

Wrap: by Jeff Pierce Daily Times Chronicle

 

The Bulldogs ended a rough stretch of five straight games with a blowout loss for the second straight night, going down 9-3 to the Wakefield Merchants.

 

The Bulldogs (15-10-2) could have essentially wrapped second place and a first round bye by going 3-2 for the week, instead they lost four games and in the last two gave up 24 runs and 30 hits.

 

It did appear early that they were going to come back strong from the prior nights (15-4) shellacking when they put up a three spot in the first against Stoneham's own Peter Fisher.

 

In the first Nick Conti had doubled home a run to deep center then Mike Taylor bombed a 380 ft home run to left center field to give the Bulldogs the early jump.

 

In the pivotal bottom of the third inning the Bulldogs loaded the bases with one out and it appeared the game could be won right there with a base hit. Instead Fisher gave the Merchants some momentum by retiring the last two Bulldog batters.

 

Wakefield took momentum from the deft escape and batted around in a six run inning on run scoring extra base hits from Scott Searles (double, 3 hits), Bobby Losanno (triple) and John Davison's third hit of the night.

 

The Bulldogs only had one threat the rest of the night but again Fisher got out of a jam in the fifth leaving runners on second and third.

 

The Bulldogs leave Thursdays loss reeling down the stretch and with pitching woes for the first time all year as they saw their team ERA move almost a full run (.78) in a week.

 

The Bulldogs return to Morelli on Sunday afternoon to play the Melrose Americans as they still have the playoff bye in their control.