Baby Bombers take care of Jammers for back-to-back wins, 7-4

After taking the opening game of the series on Saturday night, the Staten Island Yankees (19-17) clinched the series against the Jamestown Jammers (15-20) with a 7-4 victory on Sunday.

The scoring for both teams started early as Jamestown's Elvis Escobar led off the game with a single to center field against Staten Island starting pitcher Matthew Borens. Jordan Luplow put the first dent in the scoreboard for either team with a two-run home run over the left field fence.

Staten Island answered in the bottom of the inning. Leadoff hitter Devyn Bolasky opened the inning with a single followed by Luis Torrens reaching on a hit-by-pitch. With Bolasky on third, Isaias Tejeda put the Baby Bombers on the board with a sacrifice fly to make the score 2-1.

Jamestown kept the bats going in the top of the second inning as Erik Lunde hit a double to right field followed by an Erik Forgione single to left field that put the Jammers' lead at 3-1.

Pitching began to take over for both teams until the bottom of the sixth inning when the Baby Bombers offense woke up. Tejeda began the inning with a walk, followed by a Connor Spencer single to left field. With Tejeda on third, Vicente Conde grounded into a force that plated Tejeda to cut the Jammers' lead to one run.

The Staten Island offense exploded in the bottom of the seventh inning to put the game well in hand for the Yankees. Bolasky got his second hit of the game with a single to center field, followed by a Torrens triple that gave the catcher his 16th game in a row with a base hit. Ty McFarland then brought home Torrens with a go-ahead single to left field. Isaias Tejeda followed Torrens' lead, hitting an RBI double that pushed his hit streak to 15 games. Nathan Mikolas came up next and reached on an error by Jamestown first baseman Kevin Ross that allowed Tejeda to cross the plate. After Mikolas stole second, Renzo Martini slapped a base hit to left field to give the Baby Bombers a 7-3 lead heading to the final two frames.

With Staten Island reliever Jordan Cote (W, 1-2) on the mound, the Jammers tried to get back in the ball game. Lunde and Forgione both singled to right field, the Escobar brought Lunde home on a force ground out, but it wasn't enough as Cote closed the door on the Jammers for a 7-4 victory.

The two teams wrap up the series tomorrow at 11 a.m. as the Staten Island Yankees host Camp Day.