Bronx, NY (March 30, 2004)- Manhattan and Fordham played 10 innings of 4-4 baseball before the game was called due to darkness today at Jack Coffey Field on the Fordham Campus.
Steve Bronder pitched five innings of one-hit relief for the Jaspers.
Manhattan got on the board first, plating a run in the top of the second on a
John Fitzpatrick RBI sacrifice fly, scoring
Matt Cucurullo.
Fordham responded with two runs in the bottom of the second, as Tim Short drove home two runs with a single. The Rams tried to extend the lead, but Kurt Thomas was thrown out trying to steal home.
The Jaspers knotted the score at 2-2 in the top of the third, as
Frank Cappello scored on an RBI groundout by Cucurullo, but the Rams quickly regained the lead in the bottom of the inning on an RBI single by John Mollicone.
The team's traded runs in the fifth, as Manhattan scored on a RBI groundout by
Nick Derba, scoring
Gary Diaz, and Fordham answered with a solo homer run by Greg Smith.
The Jaspers evened the score at 4-4 in the top of the sixth as
Chris Gaskin scored on a balk by the Rams' pitcher.
Neither team could push across a run until the game was called on account of darkness after the 10th inning, though Manhattan posed threats in the eighth and tenth innings.
In the eighth, with runners on the corners, the Jaspers attempted a double steal, but
Jonathan Holzer was out at home. In the tenth, Manhattan loaded the bases with one out, but could not push across the go-ahead run.
