GLEN ALLEN, Va. — The path for the Pittsfield Babe Ruth 13-year-old All-Stars at the World Series today is clear: Win and it is the top seed heading into bracket play with a first-round bye into the champiionship semi-finals.
Lose, and things could get really complicated, really fast.
All five teams in Pittsfield's pool have at least one win, and could, in theory, all end up tied at 2-2 when pool play concludes today.
All five teams in Pittsfield's pool are in action on Tuesday at Glen Allen Stadium, starting with an early morning matchup between the Pacific Northwest Champions (Oregon) and the Virginia State Champions (Manassas).
When that game is over, the Mid Atlantic Champions (Pennsylvania) face the Southeast Regional Champs (Winchester, Va.).
Finally, Pittsfield closes out the pool's schedule when it plays Oregon at about 2 p.m.
Pittsfield, the New England Regional Champion, and Pennsylvania each have a record of 2-1.
The Virginia State Champs and Southeast Regional Champs each are 1-2.
The Pacific Northwest Champion is 1-1.
If Pittsfield and Pennsylvania each end up 3-1, Pittsfield gets the tiebreaker for the No. 1 seed in the tournament's National Division because of Friday's win. Head-to-head competition is the first tie-breaker listed on the Baberuthleague.org website.
if Pittsfield loses today, it could end up tied with as many as four other teams, requiring league officials to go to subsequent tie-breakers, like fewest runs given up and run differential.
Getting seeded first out of the pool earns that team an off day on Wednesday and a date in the semi-finals in the winner of Wednesday's game between the National Division's third-place quarter-final and the American Division's second-place team.
The fourth- and fifth-place teams in each division drop out of the championship bracket and into the tournament's Diamond bracket, which will be filled out by the losers of Wednesday's games in the Championship bracket.
The lack of clarity on National Division seeds heading into the final day is partially due to Monday morning's rain, which pushed back all the games, including the Oregon-Manassas contest, which originally was scheduled for Monday at 7 p.m.
Fortunately, the weather looks clear the rest of the week. Pittsfield can do its part to keep the seedings equally clear with a win on Tuesday.
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Belchertown Stops Pittsfield Post 68
By Stephen DravisiBerkshires.com Sports
PITTSFIELD, Mass. – Belchertown Post 239’s Cooper Beckwith set the tone when he crushed the game’s first pitch to left-center field for a double.
The visitors went on to pound out 14 more hits in a 9-1 win over Pittsfield Post 68 in American Legion Baseball action at Buddy Pellerin Field on Monday night.
Beckwith went 3-for-4 with an RBI and scored twice, and Chase Earle went five innings on the mound without allowing an earned run as Post 239 improved to 15-0 this summer and completed a regular-season sweep of Post 68 (12-4).
“He’s a good pitcher,” Post 68 coach Rick Amuso said. “Good velo[city], kept the ball down. We didn’t respond.”
Pittsfield did manage to scratch out a run in the bottom of the fourth inning, when it already trailed, 7-0.
Nick Brindle reached on an error to start the inning. He moved up on a single by Jack Reed (2-for-2) and scored on a single to left by Cam Zerbato.
That was half the hits allowed by Earle, who struck out three before giving the ball to Alex West, who gave up a leadoff walk in the sixth and retired the next six batters he faced.
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