Fort Orange Mohawks 10 Bergen Yankees 11 (Extra Innings)

Game 5 of Pool Play the Mohawks let this one get away. Ricky Bobby Fluerent started for the Mohawks. The Yankees struck first scoring their 1st run in the 3rd inning on two doubles, leading 1-0 after 3-innings. In the 4th inning the Mohawks bats woke up, scoring 3 runs on 3 hits (Mike Arbour, Jim Bradley, Stefan Koutsakis) sandwiched around and a Yankees error. After 4 innings the Mohawk grabbed a 3-1 lead. Fluerent pitched a solid 4 innings giving up only 1R on 4H and 1W keeping the Yankees bats off balance with change ups, curves and an occasional fastball to keep them guessing.

In the top of the 5th inning, the Mohawks bats continued to hammer Yankees pitching putting up 6 more runs on 4 hits (Jim Bradley, Jimmy Tesoriero, Charlie Freer, Clem Alvear), 3 walks and 3 Yankee errors to take a 9-1 lead. In the bottom half of the 5th, Jeff Whitehead came on in relief to pitch the 5th and 6th innings, unfortunately the Yankees found their hitting form again taking a liking to faster pitching as they pounded out 7 hits and a walk, scoring 3 in the 5th inning and 2 more in the 6th inning, cutting the Mohawks lead to 9-6 after 6-innings of play.

In the top of the 7th, the Mohawks added another run on a hit and stolen base by Jimmy Jaz and an RBI-single by Fluerent. Unfortunately, that would be the final run the Mohawks would tally over the rest of the game. Jimmy T. on in relief of Whitehead met the same fate as the Yankees bats remained hot against faster/hard throwing pitching, scoring twice in the 7th and twice in the 8th innings on 4 hits, 1 walk and 3 errors (cant give a good hitting team more than 3 outs) to tie the game at 10 after eight-innings of play. Neither team scored in the 9th inning despite both teams getting the winning run in scoring position with less than 2 outs (Yankees left the bases loaded on strikeout and an inning ending 6-4 groundout to end the threat), on to the 10th inning.

For extra-innings, the inning begins with no-outs, runners are placed on 1st and 2nd bases, and batters begin with a 2-2 count. In the top half, the Mohawks failed to push any runs across the plate, a FC and 2 pop up outs kept the Mohawks at bay. In the bottom of the 10th John Weber came on in relief of Jimmy T. Similar with the Mohawks, the Yankees had runners on 1st and 2nd bases. On Webers first pitch, the batter hit a laser-line-drive back to Weber who, out of sheer reflex, caught the ball and threw to second base to double up the runner. The Mohawks decided to intentionally walk the next two batters (who've had a couple of hits already) to load the bases with 2-outs and set up a force play all around. The next batter then hit a hard ground ball between the 1st and 2nd basemen into RF. Mike Arbour came up throwing to second base to try and get the force-out but the runner beat the throw by a step and the Yankees prevailed with a walk-off win 11-10. A tough loss, one that got away. Next up, the Playoff Seeding Games.


-- Edited by spakids03 on Tuesday 18th of November 2025 09:58:19 AM