by Aaron Rothschild
I had the pleasure yesterday of watching two teams loaded with talent play some ball. The Long Island Titans Farrell and the EastEnd Aviators Anzalone 16u. The Titans would go on to win the game 14-2 in four innings out of a scheduled 9.
The Titans came up to bat against Aviator starting pitcher Tyler Lopez, the game would be led off with a leadoff double by EJ Ettinger and a walk would follow. After a pop up, cleanup hitter Scott Northrop would hit a hard ground ball to second taking a funny hop past the second baseman and ending up in deep right center, 2 runs would score and Northrop would find himself on third. A sac fly would bring in Northrop and after consecutive walks and a double steal Myles Maldanado would plate two more with a single making it a 5-0 game.
Titans pitcher Tyler Mezarian would start the game pumping in a strong fastball and would firer a 1-2-3 inning.
In the second, the Aviators would bring in Dylan Thomasson to pitch and he would work around a couple walks and a single for a scoreless inning. In the bottom half the Aviators would scratch a run across on a deep sac fly from Joe Catalano making it 5-1 after 2.
Sac fly to center scores a run for the Aviators, Titans lead 5-1 after 2. pic.twitter.com/QZrYNdrvxc
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The top of the third would turn into an offensive showcase for the Titans scoring 9 runs after Thomasson was taken out. They would bat around and kept the line moving with strong at bats and singles and walks finding any way on base that they could. The big part of the inning came with the 3 through 5 hitters all hitting RBI singles taking the game that at the time was 9-1 to 14-1. The Titans would bring in Charles Moldin who came in and threw a scoreless bottom of the frame.
The Titans would not score in the top half of the inning and the Aviators would scratch across one more but that would not be enough to avoid the mercy rule and the game would be called after 4 innings.
