Rob Moir on the 13-1 victory by the 4-Seam Falcons pic.twitter.com/uFRaXCSYq6
— Axcess Sports (@AxcessSports) October 15, 2018
The last time the NY Phantoms and 4-Seam Falcons squared off, the Phantoms took a 4-1 lead into the ninth inning. The Falcons came storming back and scored 12 unanswered runs to pull off a big victory in Stan Musial League action. Tonight, they continued that onslaught of runs with a 13-1 victory in a game that ended after 5 innings due to the run rule.
Starting pitcher Christian Falcaro set the tone by striking out the first six batters of the game, and his offense backed him with a flurry of runs early on. Three walks and a hit by pitch in the first inning, followed by a wild pitch that scored two runs handed them two gift runs and Rob Moir drove an RBI single to center field opened up a 3-0 lead.
A 1-2-3 first inning for Christian Falcaro with 3 punch outs. The Falcons are coming to bat in the home half of the first pic.twitter.com/a8e4elsl5t
— Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 15, 2018
They added a fourth run in the second inning on a sac fly by No. 3 hitter Kevin Persaud. Falcaro did his part, striking out two more in the third inning to bring his total to eight over 3 innings.
The doors blew open in the bottom of the third when the Falcons batted around, scoring eight runs–three of which came on bases loaded walks, another on an RBI single by Falcaro, and then a two-run single by PJ DeMartino and a two-run triple by Persaud for the 11th and 12th runs.
The Phantoms got on the board in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Pat Brown to score Brendan Chambers.
Falcaro went back to work in the fifth inning and fired a scoreless inning to put an exclamation point on the victory.
