Rowley Rams falls in Game 2 of Intertown Twilight League baseball semifinals
One inning. That’s what it came down to, and it wasn’t even the final inning. The
Rowley Rams, heavy with Georgetown residents, committed three errors
and gave up five unearned runs (hurting pitcher Tim Moore) and ended up
falling in Game 2, 6-3.
With that loss, the Rams have
to go back into action on Thursday at Rowley’s Eiras Field to settle
the question of whether they or the Rockport Townies will advance to the
finals.
It’s not much of a prize, as the team
waiting for either Rockport or Rowley is the Manchester-Essex Mariners,
winners of five of the last six Intertown Twilight League championships
and the last four straight.
“I told the guys after
the game that ‘one inning doesn’t make a series, but it definitely cost
us the ball game,’” said manager Jeff Wood, himself a Georgetown
resident. “We’ll leave that in Rockport, and go back to Rowley and move
on.”
Wood said that Moore “pitched a great game,” as the Rams designed a game plan around his delivery.
“He really deserved a lot better than what he got,” said Wood. Georgetown’s
Curtis Putnam, one of the heroes of Monday night’s Game 1, had another
big hit to center field that helped Rowley get runs on the board.
“It
was not a bad game, it was just one bad inning,” Wood added. “We played
relatively clean and did what we were trying to do. That’s just
baseball, sometimes.”
