Bulldogs make comeback then give away game to Mooney late

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Bulldogs make comeback then give away game to Mooney late

Posted by John Halsey on Jul 30 2013 at 05:00PM PDT

Reading vs. Mooney Dental Tanners 7-30-13 at Ferullo Field

Reading (4)– Buitkus 3-0, Oringer 3-0, Talis 4-1, N. Conti 4-1, Taylor 3-0, Padovani 3-2, Gagnon 2-1, Crehan 2-1, Bounopane 2-0 Totals 26-6

Woburn (5) Burnham 3-2, Brown 3-1, Ruxin 4-2, Manley 2-0, Lentini 3-3, DNapoli 1-0,Porter 3-1, McDonald 3-0, Cuozzo 2-0 Totals 24-9 Reading 004 000 0 -4Mooney 300 110 x -5 Doubles: Burnham, Conti

Doubles: Burnham, Conti

WP- Bishop

LP- Levine

Wrap: by Jeff Pierce Daily Times Chronicle

In the rematch from the prior evening's thriller, it was Mooney Dental (8-12) that turned the tables on the Bulldogs winning 5-4 with a late inning that broke the deadlock. Woburn trotted out the league leader in ERA (.52) Jon Bishop and combined that advantage with their biggest hit output on the season (9) to make it difficult on the Bulldogs all night. The Tanners scored three times in the first when the first five batters reached safely including Joe Burnham's leadoff double. Carlton Lentini (3 hits) knocked in the final run of the inning to give Mooney what is usually solid lead with Bishop on the mound. The Bulldogs were putting good swings on Bishop and broke through with a four run outburst in the third inning to take the lead. Zac Talis had a two run single and Mike Taylor knocked in Talis after Nick Conti's double advanced him to third. Woburn scored the tying run in the fourth on Chris Brown's sacrifice fly and then scored what ended up being the winning run in the fifth off of Bulldog reliever Zac Levine. With one out Lentini bunted to get on, stole second, advanced to third on a wild pitch and then after Levine had a big strikeout, another wild pitch scored Lentini with the lead run. This turned out to be the third time on the season and second time in three days where the Bulldogs allowed the winning run to score on a two out wild pitch. The Bulldogs had one more threat in the sixth when the first two batters reached but they failed to bring in the tying run from third with less than two outs. Bishop finished strong for his fourth victory when he retired the last 6 batters, three of which were on strikeouts.