BREWER- The Brewer Witches rallied from a 4-1 deficit, scoring four times in the bottom of the fifth inning on Monday afternoon en route to a 6-4 win over the Bangor Rams in Class A North baseball action at Heddericg Field.
Bangor scored three times in the top of the first inning, highlighted by a two-run double to right centerfield by Scottie Sockabasin. He added another RBI double in the fourth to make it 4-1 Rams. Meanwhile, starting pitcher Lucas Rutherford was rolling on the mound only allowing one unearned run on two hits through four innings. Brewer though came alive in the last of the fifth, and knocked Rutherford out of the game. Jake Perry led off and was hit with a pitch and stole second, scoring on an RBI single by Blake Littlefield who advanced to second on the throw to cut the deficit in half. Chase Swartz came on to pitch for Bangor and was greeted with a groundball RBI single to left by Logan Littlefield. Anderson Clifford then walked, and the Witches tied it on a soft flyball that dropped for an RBI single to right by pinch hitter Thomas Pelkey. Cooper Charette was up next and provided the game winning RBI hit. The hosts added a run in the sixth inning when Perry reached on a dropped third strike, stole second again, and would eventually score on a wild pitch. The Rams got a pair of singles to begin the seventh by pinch hitter Alex Kearns and Kyle Johnson, and had two runners in scoring position with one out but Eli Wall struckout pinch hitters Owen Glanville-True and Matt Turcotte to thwart the threat and end it.
Perry was on base three times for Brewer on a walk, hit by pitch, and a dropped third strike. He stole four bases and scored three runs. Logan Littlefield also got on three times with a single, two walks, knocking in one run and also scoring once. Clifford added a single, a walk, and a run scored. Dylan Nadeau doubled and walked. Blake Littlefield got a no-decision on the mound allowing three runs on three hits with five walks and seven strikeouts in 4.0 innings. Wall picked up his teammates in relief and earned the win keeping his opponents off the board with no runs on two hits with no walks and three strikeouts in 3.0 innings. Gavin Glanville-True reached base three times in the defeat for Bangor on a hit by pitch and two walks and also scored two runs. Sockabasin had the two doubles and three RBI before leaving with an injury. Rutherford fired the first 4.0+ innings on the hill and was charged with three runs on three hits with three walks and eight strikeouts. Swartz suffered the loss by giving up two runs on three hits with one walk and one strikeout in 1.0 inning of work. Both teams are now 3-2 on the season and back in action on Thursday, as Bangor hosts Mt. Ararat and Brewer travels to Brunswick.
