The Geese’ Brantley Bell reacts after he struck out swinging towards the Lancaster Barnstormers throughout the seventh inning in Sport 3 of the Atlantic League North Division Championship Sequence at Fairfield Properties Ballpark on Frida.
Credit score: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
The Geese whiffed on three keys to their sport this week, and their season is over due to it.
The Lancaster Barnstormers beat the Geese, 7-2, in Sport 3 of the Atlantic League North Division Championship Sequence at Fairfield Properties Ballpark in Central Islip on Friday night time.
“I believed we had sufficient expertise to win for positive,” Geese supervisor Wally Backman mentioned. “We didn’t hit, we didn’t play good protection and we pitched higher than it exhibits, however the protection made the pitching look dangerous. These will not be three good components.”
The Geese misplaced Video games 1 and a pair of earlier within the week and wanted to win Friday to maintain the best-of-five collection alive. The Geese have been 4-for-26 with runners in scoring place and made 9 errors within the three-game sweep.
“Pitching, protection and well timed hitting are the important thing,” Backman mentioned. “And we didn’t do any of these.”
The Geese went 66-58 within the common season and gained the North Division first-half title to clinch a postseason berth in July.
The Geese mentioned the expertise was there; six gamers within the Geese’ Sport 3 beginning lineup have appeared in Main League Baseball video games.
“You play an entire season to get right here, after which to finish it like that, it’s disappointing,” outfielder and hitting coach Lew Ford mentioned. “We had a extremely good staff right here on the finish. We simply didn’t play as much as the extent that we had been enjoying earlier, and Lancaster performed effectively.”
After scoring within the first innings of Sport 1 and Sport 2, the Barnstormers scored twice within the second inning on Friday night time. Trayvon Robinson chopped a grounder and drove in Shawon Dunston Jr. from third earlier than Anthony Peroni lined a two-out RBI single to centerfield.
The Geese answered within the backside of the second after Sam Travis looped a leadoff double down the rightfield line. With two outs, Joe DeCarlo hit a excessive pop-up that wound up touchdown on the pitcher’s mound as your complete infield circled beneath it. Travis scored from second base and made the rating 2-1.
Ariel Sandoval slapped a floor ball to second base to drive in Andretty Cordero from third base and Chris Proctor’s grounder drove in Sandoval later within the third inning to develop Lancaster’s result in 4-1.
Ruben Tejada cracked a two-out double into the leftfield nook to drive in Brantley Bell from second base and make it 4-2 within the fifth.
Lancaster added three runs within the ninth.
Stated Ford, “You wish to be enjoying your greatest baseball while you go into the playoffs, and [Lancaster] did that and it confirmed.
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