Announcement
Chiefs Blanked in Lexington, 7-0
Lexington, MA- Drew Brzozowki threw six shutout innings to lead the Blue Sox to a 7-0 win over the visiting Chiefs on Wednesday night.
Brzozowski and Justin Silvestro, who worked the seventh, frustrated the Chiefs all night long, allowing seven hits, walking four, and stranding a dozen runners on base.
The Chiefs appeared poised to make some noise in the top of the first after Tony Deshler walked but was thrown out by centerfielder Tommy Bourdon as he attempted to go first to third on Nate Witkowski’s single.
Tim Dunphy set the Sox down in order in the bottom of the inning and the Chiefs threatened in the top of the second. Mike Barbati reached on an error and Paul Yanakopoulos singled before Brzozowski got out of it when first baseman Tommy Haugh made a nice play on a Matt Boleski grounder that was headed for the right field corner.
Lexington took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second when Dave Ahern singled and came around to score on Danny Graham’s bad hop triple on a ball that took a huge bounce over Boleski’s glove in right.
The Chiefs left two more men on base in the top of the third after Witkowski walked and Copa singled.
The Blue Sox lead went to 2-0 in the bottom of the third when Ross Curley doubled and scored on Steve Gath’s single that went off Barbati’s glove into short right field.
The Chiefs left the bases loaded in the fourth and two more on in the fifth before the Blue Sox put the game away in the bottom of the inning. Curley led things off with a single to center and Gath followed with another single down the left field line. Jeff Vigurs then dropped a bunt that Nate Witkowski threw wide of first, allowing Curley to score and moving Vigurs and Gath to second and third. Dunphy then got Justin Wright swinging for the first out of the inning before walking Ahern to load the bases. Dunphy then hit Graham with a pitch to force in Gath in make it 4-0. Haugh then hit a chopper over the mound that Dunphy fielded and had to go to first on the play scoring Vigurs with the fifth Blue Sox run. Rob Machado came on for Dunphy and walked Dan Capra and Bourdon in succession to force in Ahern to make it 6-0.
Brzozowski got the Chiefs’ side in order in the top of the sixth before the Sox added another run to make it 7-0 against reliever Dan Bonito.
With the win the Blue Sox go to 8-7-1 on the year while the Chiefs fall to 14-5.
The Chiefs are off until Sunday when they meet the Blue Sox again, this time at Tufts University in Medford, starting at 5:00 PM.
