La Salle baseball takes advantage of East Providence mistakes in shutout
It was the Rams posting a 2-0 win in the first of at least two contests between the old Thanksgiving football foes, with the next one set for Monday.
PROVIDENCE — La Salle offered a Tuesday afternoon reminder of how magnified the little things tend to become at this time of the baseball season. East Providence was guilty of a couple of costly mistakes in this Division I rivalry meeting at Toti Baseball Diamond, and they proved decisive under brilliant blue skies. Jayce Bessette reached and scored on two errors, Adryan Urena crossed the plate on a wild pitch and a pickoff play helped short-circuit an early Townies chance to take the lead.
Instead, it was the Rams posting a 2-0 shutout on Tuesday, May 12, the first of at least two contests between the old Thanksgiving football foes, with the next one set for Monday afternoon just off Pawtucket Avenue. “Every run was going to matter,” La Salle catcher Brady Collins said. “On defense, every little detail mattered.
That’s where we got the edge on them. ” La Salle prevailed despite just two hits against East Providence right-hander JJ Renaud, who was tagged with an undeserved defeat. Cameron Caprio and Eli Merejildo combined on a four-hit shutout for the Rams, stranding nine and striking out four.
Merejildo induced a 4-6-3 double play to finish it in the top of the seventh, escaping after the Townies brought the potential go-ahead run to the plate. “The intensity was high,” Caprio said. “You could feel it — just a lot of pressure.