AGAWAM – Jacob Butler faced four batters in relief on Tuesday against Longmeadow. He gave up a double, walked two and allowed the tying and go-ahead runs. It wasn’t pretty.
Westfield American Legion Post 124’s Devin Baker approaches the batters box in an earlier game from the 2018 season. (Photo by Marc St. Onge)
One night later against an Agawam team that had beat Westfield Post 124 eight days earlier, Butler was brilliant. In his first start of the season, Butler allowed a single unearned run on three hits, striking out four in Westfield’s 11-1 win at Agawam High School.
After allowing an infield hit to the first batter he faced, Butler promptly picked him off of first base. The lead-off hitter in the third for Agawam managed to reach third base, but Butler struck out two of the next three to strand him there. Agawam loaded the bases in the fourth before Butler got the third out on a harmless infield pop-up.
Making things a bit easier for Butler was the Westfield offense, which banged out 10 hits in the shortened five-inning game (Westfield’s 10-run lead invoked the league’s ‘mercy’ rule). Jack Blake, Dillon Bazegian and Kyle Roberts led the way for Post 124 with two hits apiece. Matt Masciadrelli and Brian Campbell each had a pair of RBI.
Steve McKenna’s two-out single scored Aidan Dunn in the top of the first. Westfield then added on three in the second, two in the fourth and five in fifth.
Story is courtesy of John Blake.
