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The Braintree Little League group suffered its first lack of the summer season Thursday in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The Braintree American 12A squad ran right into a buzzsaw within the Irmo, South Carolina group, which handed the Wamps a 13-0 loss on the Little League World Sequence.
Braintree’s offense was utterly shut down by Irmo beginning pitcher Joe Giulietti, who tossed 3.1 innings of no-hit ball and fanned eight batters throughout his time on the mound. Giulietti additionally helped his personal trigger with the bat within the backside of the second inning when he crushed a grand slam off Braintree starter Coleman Gouthro, which put Irmo on high 8-0 on the time.
Braintree obtained it is solely hit of the day when Gouthro lined a single to left within the high of the fourth off reliever Brody Miller. However that was it for the Wamps, who wanted to attain 4 or extra runs within the fourth simply to maintain the sport going. Ryan Fennell grounded out after Gouthro’s single to finish the sport.
Braintree will get one other probability to advance by the elimination bracket, however can have an uphill battle to stay in Williamsport. Braintree will subsequent play Richmond, Texas on Saturday at 3 p.m., and now has to win 5 straight video games to make it to the U.S Ultimate.
Richmond misplaced, 1-0, to the group from Fairfield, Connecticut on Wednesday.
Braintree bumped into bother early in Thursday’s sport. After being held scoreless within the high of the primary, the Wamps had been tagged for a pair of runs within the backside of the body.
Irmo shortstop Preston Ware took the primary pitch from Gouthro and lined it to middle for a single. Giulietti adopted by hooking a double down the left area line to get Ware to 3rd, and the leadoff man scored two batters in a while a sac fly by catcher Andrew Bogan to place Irmo on high, 1-0.
Gouthro obtained to 2 strikes on Ryan Tillitz with two outs, however the Irmo proper fielder ripped an RBI single to left to present his group a 2-0 edge. Gouthro then obtained first baseman Jacob Gibson trying to finish the body.
Caden McCarthy labored a leadoff stroll for Braintree to begin the highest of the second. However Giulietti fanned the following three batters, together with each Jack Cushing and Charlie Doolin taking a look at strike three to finish the body.
Irmo then tagged Braintree for six runs within the backside of the second, together with Giulietti’s huge swing to finish Gouthro’s outing.
That Grand Slam feeling 😄
Joe Giulietti cleared the bases for South Carolina in Williamsport 💥 pic.twitter.com/pviuAGoMRj
After Braintree went down so as within the high of the third — which noticed Giulietti strike out all three batters — Irmo scored two extra runs off two wild pitches by Henry Kuka to go up 10-0.
Irmo scored one other run off a bases loaded stroll, and plated two extra on a fielder’s alternative and an error by third baseman Caden McCarthy within the backside of the third to make it a 13-0 sport. Braintree could not rally for 4 runs to maintain the sport going, and Irmo gained after simply 4 innings.
Braintree is the primary Massachusetts group to make it to Williamsport since Middleboro in 2022. They obtained there with a summer season of perfection.
The Wamps swept their summer season schedule and went on to win the District 8 event, the Part 2 event, and the Massachusetts state event to earn a spot within the New England Regionals in Bristol, Connecticut. Braintree swept these too, with huge wins over Maine (15-0) and Vermont (10-0) earlier than an extra-innings walk-off win over Bedford, New Hampshire within the championship sport.
Matthew Geagan is a sports activities producer for CBS Boston. He has been a part of the WBZ sports activities group for practically 20 years. He moved over to the online in 2012 and has coated all of the highs (and some lows) in Boston sports activities.
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