back and forth: saturday, july 28

LAST NIGHT

• Chatham posted a 5-4 victory over Orleans and Brewster lost to Hyannis, meaning the A's head into the all-star break with a six-point cushion for second place . . . Chatham's Tom Milone allowed two runs in six innings and the A's held on for the win . . . Jermaine Curtis went 2-for-5 with three RBI
• The race for second in the West is suddenly closer than it is in the East . . . Cotuit exploded for a 13-1 victory over Falmouth, and with Hyannis' win, Falmouth has just a four-point lead . . . Cotuit's Curtis Dupart paced the offensive attack with a 3-for-4, three RBI night . . . Two weeks ago, Dupart was hitting .196, but he's now at .242 . . . The freshman from Georgia Tech was a 31st-round pick out of high school
• Hyannis beat Brewster 12-2 behind four RBI by Dan Brewer and eight solid innings from Austin Hudson, who allowed just one earned run
  
• Bourne's Mitch Moreland geared up to defend his home run debry title as he hit a two-run home run in the Braves' 5-3 victory over Wareham
• Jason Castro kept up his recent torrid pace with a 3-for-3 day as Y-D beat Harwich . . . Castro is now hitting .368, just behind Conor Gillaspie for the league lead . . . Gillaspie raised his average from .367 to .372 with a 2-for-4 day in Falmouth's loss

TONIGHT

• All-Star Game, 6 p.m., Wareham
• A radio broadcast will be available on NPR's Cape Cod stations (FM 90.1, 91.1 and 94.3) . . . It will also be available online at http://www.wgbh.org/cainan/ (click the listen button)
• NESN will broadcast the game on tape delay Monday night at 7 p.m.
• Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend the all-star game. Work keeps getting in the way of blogging. The guys at Codball indicated they may be doing some live updates from the game, depending on wifi connections . . . If I get home in time, I'll do some updates based on the radio broadcast, and I'll also post some impressions after watching on NESN Monday night
  
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