The Jamestown Jammers got off of the bus in Niles on Thursday in first place, all by themselves.  After Friday night they found themselves in a tie with the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, losing the first two games of the three game series.  When Saturday’s game was over the Jammers boarded the bus to go home back in first place after pasting the Scrappers, 13-3.

The Jammers raced out to a 5-0 lead in the top of the second.  Scrappers starting pitcher Michael Rayl (above) threw 31 pitches in the inning and seemed to struggle with his control.  For Jamestown,  Todd Muecklisch had an RBI single.  Aury Diaz then belted a two-run single.  Noah Perio closed out the scoring in the second with a tw0-run double.

Mahoning Valley fought back in the bottom of the third.  Jamestown made a couple of errors that allowed Dan DeGeorge and Jordan Casas to score.  Chase Burnette then connected with a clean RBI-single to right to make it a 5-3 game.

Jamestown manufactured a run in the fourth and tacked on three more in the fifth highlighted by a Sequoyah Stonecipher bomb to deep right center field to make the score 9-3 in favor of the visitors.

Not much seemed to go right for the Scrappers on this night.  Jamestown tacked on more runs in the seventh inning to take a 13-3 lead.

After the game, Travis Fryman commented on the effects of the loss.  “There wasn’t much good to take from this tonight.  I would be hard pressed to find anything positive to speak of.  Chase [Burnette] had three hits.  They [Jamestown] had five errors, but their hits offset that, obviously.  Everything they hit found a hole tonight.”

The Scrappers head to Connecticut before returning home for a six game home stand starting Thursday.