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Road Warriors strike early, snap Bravehearts’ win streak

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    Game played before more than 4,700 Worcester-area students on Baseball in Education Day


    Worcester Breavehearts

    WOPRCESTER – The Worcester Bravehearts fell, 10-3, to the Futures League Road Warriors Tuesday on the second of three Baseball In Education Days at Fitton Field. The loss snapped a three-game Bravehearts win streak and dropped the ’Hearts to 4-5.

    The Road Warriors broke open in the top of the first, when Owen McHugh (Willams), on base after being hit by a pitch, crossed home on a Joe Muzio (UMass Dartmouth) single off Worcester right-hander Mavrick Rizy (LSU). The Warriors continued to score into the second, when Brett Baker (UMass Dartmouth) roped an RBI triple. Baker then scored on a Rizy wild pitch to extend his team’s lead to 3-0 in the second inning.

    A 4-run sixth inning allowed the Warriors to widen the gap 7-0, and they carried that lead into the bottom of the sixth, when the ‘Hearts briefly rallied for 3 runs. A Matt Milone (SUNY Maritime) sacrifice fly scored Max LeFrancois (Assumption), before Dylan LaPointe (FAU) drilled an RBI single to left. Tyler McCord (Amherst) drove in Worcester’s final run on a ground ball to shortstop.

    The Warriors tacked on 3 more runs: 1 in the eighth on an error by Bravehearts’ pitcher Carson Walsh (Northeastern), followed by 2 more in the ninth after an error and a hit. A scoreless bottom of the ninth ended the game.

    The winning pitcher was Warriors left-hander Brady Miller (Boston College), who pitched 5 scoreless innings, surrendering 2 hits and 3 walks with 4 strikeouts. The save went to Finn Doherty (Eastern Conn.), who pitched 3 innings, letting up no runs and a hit. Fiskdale native Rizy took the loss. The former Worcester Academy right-hander pitched 4 innings and allowed 3 runs, 3 hits and 3 walks. He struck out 7.

    The Bravehearts travel to Westfield tomorrow morning for a 10:30 a.m. meeting with the first-place Starfires.

    The next home game for Worcester is on Thursday, the last of the Baseball in Education Day games, against the Nashua Silver Knights. First pitch for that game is scheduled for 10:30 a.m.

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