Errors doom ‘Cats

Monday June 18, 2012

NORTH ADAMS -- Over the course of a long season every team is going to have its bad days. The North Adams SteepleCats are hoping that is all Sunday's 12-8 loss to Holyoke was; just a bad day at the office.

Things spiraled out of control in the third inning for the SteepleCats and starter Dillion McNamara. The Blue Sox sent 13 batters to plate and capitalized on three SteepleCat errors to plate eight runs in the inning, chasing McNamara from the game.

"It was a very poor job by us to limit the damage," manager Bryan Adamski said. "If you stop it at 5-1, or even 6-1, you're still in the ball game and just a couple of hits away."

Charlie Law came into to relieve McNamara in the third and worked his way out of the jam. He then pitched three scoreless innings before handing the ball over to Robert Baroniel Jr. in the seventh. The Blue Sox tacked on one run in the seventh and two more in the eighth to put the game completely out of reach.

"Not only did we not limit the damage, but we continued to let it build after the third inning," Adamski said.

The SteepleCats committed four total errors on the day. Despite scoring eight runs and collecting 12 hits, the offense didn't do the SteepleCats any favors either. North Adams left 16 men on the base paths, including leaving the sacks full in the third and seventh inning.

"It's tough when you're looking to climb that type of mountain and recover from that type of deficit

if they don't walk guys for you," Adamski said. "It was going to be very difficult to string hits together and score the runs we needed. We had to come up with a big hit and we didn't do that today."

The fourth inning was the only one in which the SteepleCats didn't get a base runner, as they attempted to chip away at the lead.

The fourth inning was the only one in which the SteepleCats didn't get a base runner, as they attempted to chip away at the lead.

"We earned that loss, that's about as simple as I can put it," Adamski said. "To pull that positive out of it, is really pretty tough to do."

Jeff Roy, Esteban Tresgallo, Sheehan Planas-Arteaga, and Bryan Soloman each had a pair of hits for the SteepleCats. Roy added to more steals and now leads the league by eight, with 13 on the season. Connor Biggio had two RBI's in the game.

North Adams is off today, and will play a double header against Vermont on Tuesday.