SAUGUS – After an intense weekend of playing baseball at World Series Park, the Lynn 14-year-old Babe Ruth all-star team ran out of gas ? and defense.After finishing off Revere in the continuation of a suspended game Saturday morning (20-7), and then winning a tidy 4-0 victory over Beverly immediately thereafter, the Lynners fell yesterday to Peabody, 11-4, and were eliminated from the District 1 tournament.Peabody moves on, and will play Wakefield tonight (5:30), with the winner taking on Saugus Tuesday (5:30) for the district title.”We didn’t hit throughout the tournament, except for one game,” said Lynn manager Chuck Liberge. “And then our defense killed us today. We made a lot of errors, and that came back and got us.”The errors were puzzling, too, because Lynn played a superlative game in the field just a day earlier in the win over Beverly.Each team traded runs in the first before Peabody took a 3-1 lead in the second. With one out and Mike Davis on first, Evan Gagnon reached on an error, putting Davis on second.Pitcher Nick Day helped his cause briefly, making a nice stab on a grounder back to the box and nailing Davis at third. But he walked No. 9 hitter T.J. Amato, and Bobby Losano’s two-run single knocked in the two runs.Peabody put the game away in the fourth inning, thanks to sloppy Lynn defense. Amato led off with a single, and Losano followed with a double, putting runners at second and third.Walks to Bobby Doyle and Casey Grenier produced one run and prompted Liberge to replace Day with Zack Conti, who got two quick outs and appeared to be out of the jam with Lynn still in the game.But Davis reached on an error that scored two runs and made it 6-1, and another single by Gagnon scored two more runs, and it was 8-1.”We’re out of that inning,” said Liberge, “and the error really hurt us. I thought Zack pitched well.”However, Conti had to come out of the game when Liberge put in Brendan Mannion to hit for him (subs cannot re-enter), which put the ball in lefty Sean Buckland’s hands for the fifth. Buckland didn’t do badly, either, but Peabody touched him for two more runs to make it 10-1 in the top of the fifth.Lynn tried to climb back into it in the bottom of the fifth. With one out, Brian Wilkins reached on an error, Joe Scuzzarella walked, a wild pitch moved them both up, and Day knocked them in with a base hit and went home on the throw home trying to nail Scuzzarella. Kyle Gauthier’s base hit scored Day, and all of a sudden it was 10-4.Peabody scored one more run in the seventh to account for the final score.Saturday, Gauthier spun a two-hit beauty in Lynn’s win over Beverly. Hits were hard to come by all the way around, as Lynn only had four.In the first inning, Wilkins and Scuzzarella had back-to-back walks and Day was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Wilkins scored on a wild pitch and Joe Kasper drove home another run with a single.It stayed that way until the sixth, when the Lynners scored two insurance runs. Josh Gonzalez got a one-out infield single and Melvin Cabrera was hit by a pitch. A grounder to short by Wilfredo Feliz got one run home, and Cabrera scored on a wild pitch.
