MacArthur Dominates Game One Thanks to Dominant Buchan

May 22, 2018

Brandon Buchan threw 6.1 scoreless en route to a dominating game 1 win. Game 2 tomorrow at MacArthur. pic.twitter.com/geZGzk6jbw

— Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 21, 2018

The MacArthur Generals made the short trip across Levittown and destroyed their crosstown rivals Division, 9-0, in game one of a best-of-three Nassau Conference A semi-final.

Both starting pitchers, Nick Fressle for the Blue Dragons and Brandon Buchan for MacArthur both shut down the opposition in the first three innings.

Division threatened in the bottom of the second, but a failed suicide squeeze got Buchan out of it after the Blue Dragons got a runner in scoring position with nobody out.

After a RBI single from Joe Ricciardi to open the scoring, Ryan Wall drove in two to give the Generals a 3-0 lead.

MacArthur took a 5-0 lead in the top of the fifth when Justin DeMaria tripled home Jason Tramontana and then scored on a sac-fly.

Buchan would continue his dominant start, breezing through the fifth and the sixth, allowing just one Division hit.

“My fastball got me ahead early,” Buchan said. “I didn’t really throw my curveball, my fastball was working a lot.”

Buchan gave credit to his catcher, Dom Notarstefano. “He called a great game,” Buchan said. “He always bodied balls for me. I give him a lot of credit.”

In the top of the seventh, the Generals would put this one out of reach. Buchan helped his own cause; driving in a pair with a single into right.

Ricciardi than two-hoped the wall in the right and slid safely into third, and drove in the eighth run of the game for MacArthur.

The final run was pushed across by Wall, who got aboard again as a ground ball leaked under the glove of James Horodecki glove at second.

Buchan came out of the General’s dugout to begin the bottom of the seventh, and got the first out of the inning. Fressle would single sharply up the middle and that would be it for Buchan, who made way for Joe Novak.