Tri-County Baseball · Western Massachusetts · Est. 1929
Athletic Club
Baseball Club
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turners Falls AC | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 11 | 2 |
| bankESB | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 1 |
Kelly Grand Slam Caps Seven-Run Fifth as Turners Falls Pulls Away from bankESB, 10–5
Thibeault goes the distance on 92 pitches; bankESB holds a 5–2 lead after three before the AC bats erupt in decisive fashion
bankESB had the lead, they had the momentum, and for three innings at Frontier Regional School Baseball Diamond on Thursday, they looked like the better team. Then the fifth inning arrived, Turners Falls Athletic Club sent 11 men to the plate, and Zach Kelly launched a grand slam to right field that turned a close game into a comfortable 10–5 victory for the AC.
The early innings belonged to bankESB. Grayson Loos doubled in the first to put ESB on the board, and the club took control of the third inning in emphatic fashion — Loos tripled to score one, Nick Burns followed with a home run to right that plated two more, and James Rocco singled in a fourth run. Just like that, ESB led 5–2 heading into the fourth, and starter L. Rocco had held TFAC to two runs through three. It looked like a different story than the one that was about to unfold.
Turners Falls had been chipping away quietly — Marshall Ingram hit a sacrifice fly in the second to tie it at one, Logan Cormier added another sac fly in the third to make it 5–2 — but nothing prepared anyone for what happened in the fifth. Seven runs on eight hits, capped by Kelly's grand slam, flipped the scoreboard from 5–2 bankESB to 9–5 TFAC in the span of one half-inning. Kyle Barnes had three hits on the day and set the table all afternoon, and Andrew Ciaglo scored twice while drawing two walks out of the two-hole. The AC finished with 11 hits and six walks as a team.
TJ Thibeault was steady all night for Turners Falls, going all seven innings on just 92 pitches, allowing 10 hits and five runs while striking out three and walking one. That kind of efficient complete game is the backbone of any winning effort. On the other side, L. Rocco absorbed the loss, lasting four innings and giving up six runs on six hits with four walks, followed by Griffin (three runs in one inning) and C. Cusack, who tossed two clean innings to close it out. Loos and Calderon each went 2-for-4 with extra-base hits for bankESB in a game where their offense was not the problem — it was the fifth inning that undid them.
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