An inside-the-Park 2-R HR for Dan Defonte and Batting 1.000 takes an early 2-0 lead in the first ! pic.twitter.com/G3N3AM2lwr — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) October 6, 2018 “He hit bombs” is one way to put it. Those were the words of winning pitcher Spyro Matarangas in regards to the amazing performance from cleanup hitter Danny Defonte. The young slugger smacked 2 HRs in Batting 1.000’s 11-2 victory over the Oil City Bandits, including a two-run shot in the first inning to open up the scoring. They never looked back after that, opening the game up with a six-spot in the second inning to put it out of reach, especially with Matarangas throwing strikes, working quickly and fielding his position very well on a handful of comebackers to the mound. “The improvem...
East Coast Jays defeat Oil City Bandits , 2-1, in a Boys of Summer 16U match up. Here’s HC Brian Derschowitz on the victory @liboysofsummer pic.twitter.com/IyTkjoEKQZ — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) July 25, 2018 It was a tremendous day for the East Coast Jays pitching staff, using seven pitchers to throw a combined no hitter in a 2-1 victory over the Oil City Bandits. Jack Rand started off the game on the mound for the Jays, striking out two in his one inning of work. In the bottom half of the first, the Jays scored the only runs they would need off of Bandits’ starting pitcher, Dan Kelleher. Lucas Rubenstein worked a walk, and then worked his way over to third base after two passed balls. Philip Piro then worked a walk and stole second base. Kelleher then uncorked a wild pit...