Baseball:Peabody rallies to beat Revere

Down to its final strike on Monday morning, the Peabody baseball team pulled a rabbit out of the hat to tie the game before pulling away for a 5-1 victory over host- Revere, their seventh straight win to open the season.”Everyone seemed to believe we were destined to lose this one, playing the Patriots on Patriots Day, but the resiliency our guys showed when confronted with a defeat was something special,” said Tanners coach Mark Bettencourt.Speedster C.J. Alimonti was hit by a two-out, two-strike pitch, before coming around on an ensuing double down the left field line by Bobby Tramondozzi.”We always look to have CJ steal, but the Revere catcher had thrown out all three of our attempted base-stealers so we held him,” explained Betterncourt. “It’s very fortunate we did because Bobby came up with the huge hit to tie the game.”After forcing extra innings, the visitors got a leadoff double from Matt Correale in the eighth before a bunt single from Christian Morales who then took second. Consecutive walks to Mike Petrosino and David Hoar gave the Tanners the lead.Peabody would add two insurance runs before the inning was out before Correale, the winning pitcher, finished off the game. The dual-threat retired all six batters he faced including four strikeouts.Revere grabbed a 1-0 lead after an infield single in the second off of Derek DeMild(6 innings, 2 hits, 6 strikeouts) who dueled with Patriots starter Tommy Portrait until the former was removed.Gloucester 2, Danvers 1At Danvers, the Fisherman scored twice off of Ryan Kelleher (3 innings, 1 earned run, 4 hits) in the third before holding off the Falcons. Raff Tyluf plated the hosts only run on a fielders’ choice in the fourth before finishing up on the mound with four inning of three hit ball, featuring 6 strikeouts. Danvers travels to English on Wednesday.Marblehead 4, Swampscott 1At Swampscott, the Magicians prevailed behind six strong innings from starter Jordan Chmara (4 hits, 5 strikeouts) who improved to 2-0 on the season. Marblehead got multi-hit games from Tom Koopman (3 for 4) and Trey Blackner and Garrett Keough who finished with two apiece. The latter earned his second save of the season.The Big Blue got a strong outing from Gavin Sullivan who pitched six inning (4 strikeouts) and three hits from Greg Collier.Beverly 18, Salem 3At Beverly, the Panthers cruised to victory behind a cast of multi-hit efforts including those of Matt Hamor and George Hillios who finished with three apiece. Beverly got two hits from the trio of Kevin Cuneo, John Berchoff and Nick Cotarao as well as four solid innings from winning pitcher Ted Leathersich.St. John’s 2, Haverhill 1At Haverhill, the Eagles took the lead in the top of the seventh on a sacrifice fly from Rosario Missiti which plated Mark Etherington who singled and stole second before advancing to third on a sacrifice bunt. Keith Leavitt made it 1-0 with a sixth inning solo shot before the Hillies got the run back in their half. Justin Snyder went the distance for St. John’s (5-1), allowing three hits while striking out seven. The Prep plays again today, at Bishop Fenwick (10).Everett 6, Winthrop 5At Everett, the Vikings dropped an exclusionary game despite the stellar effort of reliever Chris Fucillo who struck out 10 batters over three and two thirds innings. The senior threw 65 pitches, 48 for strikes and had an assist on the only ball put in play by the Crimson Tide. Winthrop (4-2) travels to Peabody on Wednesday.