Braydon Gray has asserted himself as one of many prime arms within the Merrimack Valley.
On a sunshine stuffed Wednesday afternoon, Gray fired his second consecutive full sport shutout because the junior proper hander scattered 4 hits, walked one, and struck out eight to outlast North Andover’s Ryan Griffin, 1-0, at Ayotte Field.
Gray has now thrown 13 scoreless innings to start out the yr permitting only one hit in that body whereas hanging out 20. Griffin, who’s headed to Northeastern to proceed his profession within the fall, allowed simply an earned run over six innings of labor whereas permitting 4 hits.
“That was exactly the game that I expected,” Chelmsford coach Lou Disanti mentioned. “Those were two great pitchers going at it and they both pitched unbelievable today.”
On the mound with the Lions (3-0) forward by a run within the prime of the seventh, Gray fanned the primary two hitters on seven pitches earlier than issuing a two out stroll to AJ Lawrence. In an try and get into scoring place Lawrence tried to swipe second, however Lions catcher Jack Blaine gunned him down to finish the sport.
Throughout the afternoon Gray featured a powerful 4 pitch combine highlighted by a four-seam fastball that persistently stayed between 86 and 88 miles per hour, a tough slider, and a knee-buckling curveball. He completed his outing having thrown 86 pitches, 66 of which had been strikes.
“My slider was definitely on along with the fastball location,” Gray mentioned. “We were expecting a close game that would come down to one run or one big hit and thankfully we were the ones to get it.”
Collin Reid equipped the one run of the day because the Lions first baseman dumped a two out RBI single into proper subject to offer the hosts a 1-0 lead within the fourth. That was greater than sufficient for Gray who improved his effectiveness as the sport went on. From the beginning of the fourth till Lawrenece’s two-out stroll within the seventh Gray retired 12 of 13 batters.
North Andover shortstop Trevor Crosby was the one one to determine Gray because the UMass-Lowell-bound senior related on a pair of line drive hits together with a double off the rock wall in left within the third. Gray, nonetheless, retried him when it mattered most as he acquired Crosby to come out within the fifth to strand a runner in scoring place.
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