There is no easy road to a league championship. On July 9th, Wareham’s record stood at 10-9. Over the Gatemen’s next five games, Wareham faced Cotuit ace Kevin Ziomek (Vanderbilt) twice as well as the Cape’s top pitcher, Hyannis’s Sean Manaea (Indiana State). In between battling some of the Cape’s top arms, the Gatemen blew …
In a season dominated by the bat, two of the three best hitting teams will face off in the 2012 Cape Cod Baseball League Championship as the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox face the Wareham Gatemen. Top-to-bottom the Red Sox enter the Cape League Championship as one of the best hitting teams in league history. Yarmouth-Dennis finished …
Perhaps the unexpected created the expected. After the Bourne Braves and the Orleans Firebirds upset the two best regular-season teams in the Cape League, the division finals match teams with a lot of recent playoff history. Orleans will meet Yarmouth-Dennis and Wareham will play Bourne in the third straight postseason. Recent playoff history favors the …
Rich Maclone’s recent article in The Enterprise examined this season’s Cape League power surge. Maclone found in speaking with players, coaches, and league representatives as well as delving into the numbers that there is something different with the Cape League this season. Offensive numbers have increased dramatically and this sudden spike has coincided with baseballs that may …