No. 2 South Plainfield takes GMC Red outright, wins 11-9 slugfest against St. Joseph-Metuchen
Even after second-ranked South Plainfield scored five times in the first to take a 5-0 lead over visiting St. Joseph-Metuchen, the Tigers knew it wouldn’t be over. Even if the Falcons were 3-13 on the season.
St. Joe’s got four in the top of the second to make it a one-run game, but while momentum swung back and forth, South Plainfield never trailed in a 11-9 win heard on Central Jersey Sports Radio Thursday afternoon.
The victory gave the Tigers the GMC Red Division title outright, virtually assuring they’ll be the No. 1 seed in the GMC Tournament, which will be seeded Friday morning.
Jayden Alvarez got the first two RBIs of the game, and the last one. The first two came on two-RBI double in the first after Dan Kapsch led off with a single, and Zach Robinson beat out an infield hit, a sharp liner to third. He capped it off with an RBI single in the bottom of the sixth, an insurance run with South Plainfield leading 10-9 at the time.
After the five-run outburst in the first, St. Joe’s got four back in the top of the second, the big blows being a two-RBI single by Luke Palermo and a sac fly to left by Lorenz Matanguihan.
South Plainfield then got two in the bottom of the inning on an RBI double by Brandon Bickunas, who later scored on a steal of third when the throw from the St. Joe’s catcher went into left field, making it 7-4.
Joe’s got it to 7-5 with a run in the top of the third, but South got three more back in their half of the inning to make it 10-5.
And the Falcons chipped away again, scoring again in the top of the fourth, then getting three more in the top of the sixth to cut it to 10-9.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Tigers got an insurance run when Zach Robinson was hit by a pitch from Joe’s reliever Rich Zanagara, stole second, and came around to score on a single by Alvarez.
Chase Donovan got his first win of the season in relief for the Tigers, who are 14-4, 10-2 in the GMC Red. St. Joseph falls to 3-15 with the loss, 3-9 in the Red, as Zangara took the loss to fall to 0-4.
Click below for postgame reaction with third-baseman Jayden Alvarez and head coach Scott Gleichenhaus, presented by Sportsplex at Metuchen:
https://cjsportsradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/5-2-24-JAYDEN-ALVAREZ-COACH-GLICK-for-web.mp3
Grand Poobah XIV
On a day the squad swept Joes & got the 1 seed in the GMC, saw our 3rd Poobah give a coach an A1010 Tattoo, we returned the Helmet to our 1st Poobah, Jay Alvarez, who despite lookin like he picked a knife fight w/ Freddy Krueger, lead his mates to victory.
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