by Chris Sacchi Anthony Frascogna is entering his 21st season as head coach of Patchogue-Medford high school. He also serves as President of the Suffolk Baseball Coaches Association, which has become a whole new role during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It was a little bit of work, and I’m thankful that people were receptive to the suggestions we put out there, because sometimes, it’s hard to get people to change their minds,” Frascogna said. “I’m proud of what we were able to do as far as maximizing the number of games in a safe way, with the time allotment, and not really altering the big things.” “I mean, it’s going to be a lot different than we’ve had in the past, but I think we made the most of what we have.” Changes for this season, among others, include playi...
by Anthony Frascogna Suffolk Baseball Coaches Association, President Let me start by saying that I still love coaching baseball, it’s getting close to 30 years overall, most times the practices even more than the games. In fact, my first varsity practice included snow shovels and boots instead of bats and balls. Intentionally crazy I admit, but those were different times. Today, as I left my house, passed the remaining snow that was piled by a street plow and got hit by the wind as I passed the shelter the house was providing, my first thought was, “We don’t have practice outside today!” honestly, it was a happy thought. The circumstances that have led to the delay of the Suffolk HS Baseball season, a world-wide pandemic, are nothing short of horrific. All disturbances that have occurre...
Final: Pat-Med 4, Hills East 3 WP: Angelo Sciandra No. 3 Hills East is eliminated pic.twitter.com/m2HFo2zlbD — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 19, 2017 To say that Pat-Med came in with the chips stacked against them would be an understatement. As the No. 14 seed against No. 3 seed Hills East, they would have to pull off all their victories on the road. They put a sophomore, Randall Alejo, up against Vanderbilt-commit Matt Hogan and they had a number of sophomores playing prominent roles in the game. None of that mattered, as they pulled off the upset with a 4-3 victory to advance to the Class AA semifinals against Commack beginning on Monday. “We wanted to kind of represent our league, and we did a nice job, we’ve had great at bats for the past few weeks,” said Coach Anthony Frasc...
(Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on March 30, 2017.) If you like pitching duels this one was not for you. Pat-Med avoided a series sweep with a 12-8 win over Sachem East in a wild game that took over three hours and featured several lead changes. The story of the game was Albany-commit Brad Malm smacking a three-run HR in the first inning and also just narrowly missing another one in the sixth inning, that was ultimately a two-run double to put the Pat-Med Raiders up 6-4. “I felt like I was seeing the ball very well and my teammates and I put together a few great innings which helped, not only the pitchers but, the whole team,” said the senior SS. The game was far from over at that point, though. Sachem East bounced back and tied the game on a solo shot by Brendan Rya...
by Zevan Shuster On his 108th and final pitch Randall Alejo retires Jose Matos to strand the bases loaded in the seventh. Pat-Med looking to walk off pic.twitter.com/ffZoqvsylH — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 8, 2019 According to head coach Anthony Frascogna, Patchogue-Medford should be in more than capable shape heading into the 2020 season. They finished 2019 with a 9-9 league record, qualifying for the postseason with a 9th inning walk-off win against Longwood. “We did graduate a couple of seniors, but our key guys all played last year. Our best pitcher, Chris Baldwin, was All-League last year, and did a nice job for us,” said Frascogna. The head coach had enormous praise for his star pitcher, for his talent, his character and his competitive drive. “He’s going to Alfred St...
Long Island’s own Marcus Stroman appeared on Mike Stud‘s “YNK” podcast. Atypical from most interviews, it was 90 minutes long and the Pat-Med native opened up about a variety of topics that are typically not mentioned on radio or TV. Marcus attended Duke University with Mike Stud (Mike Seander) and they became very close friends. Seander hosted Stroman on his official visit and he even encouraged him to begin his music career. They have remained close to this day, and Stroman even appeared on three of his songs (These Days, Shine, Take it How You Wanna). Stroman was traded to the Mets in a pre-trade dealine deal that surprised many in baseball, who expected him to be dealt to a contender like the New York Yankees. He wound up performing well; going 4-2 with a 3.77 E...
Randall Alejo was lights-out in Pat-Med’s 1-0 victory. He did not factor in the decision but fired 7 shutout innings as the Raiders clinch a postseason berth. He’s our @BsbLifestyle101 Player of the Game pic.twitter.com/mPcIn3KAen — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 8, 2019 Big-time pitchers have the ability to execute pitches to get out of jams. Inning-after-inning that’s what we saw from both Pat-Med RHP Randall Alejo (St. Rose-commit) and Longwood LHP Steven Murphy (Adelphi-commit). Both starting pitchers exited with the score tied 0-0, but Murphy left with a runner on first in the ninth inning following a lead off walk to Tyler Miller.An E5 called for an obvious bunting situation. When Pat-Med’s No. 5 hitter Phil Gerard dropped down a bunt and the attempt...
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