Greater Lawrence baseball tops Tech

LYNN – Following a 21-4, six-inning loss to Greater Lawrence on Tuesday afternoon at Fraser Field, the Lynn Tech baseball team has just two games remaining in its season to pick up the ever-elusive first victory.The Tigers? latest setback saw the visitors bang out 15 hits while taking advantage of an unsteady defense that committed 10 errors. The Reggies scored in every inning, including six in the second and seven in the sixth, which was stopped with two outs.?Lawrence (13-4) played well and I?m not taking anything away from them, but we handed them way too many runs,” explained Tech coach Harold German. “If we played any defense at all, it might have been a close game.”The hosts had no answer for Javier Franjul (4-plus innings, 4 hits, 3 walks), who fanned the first five batters he faced. The right-hander finished with 12 strikeouts total, including four in the fourth inning before he was removed shortly into the following frame.?He did what he was supposed to do,” said German of Franjul, who allowed just one earned run. “He wasn?t doing anything special, but to his credit, he stayed around the strike zone and forced us to swing and miss.”Trailing 10-0 after two and a half, the Tigers managed to scrape two across in the third when Michael Ramirez? one-out knock to right eluded a slipping Anthony Vasquez, allowing Raphy Perez (walk) and Enderson Mejia (error) to score.Tech added solo tallies in its next two trips to the plate.Mejia?s RBI single in the fourth plated Jose Morel, who reached after the aforementioned fourth whiff of the inning reached the backstop. Morel?s perfectly placed bunt with the bases loaded in the fifth scored Michael Brown to cap the hosts? scoring.The Reggies? production came early and often, starting with a solo run in the first, courtesy of Manny Rosario. The speedster led off with a single, and stole both second and third before scoring on an errant pickoff attempt by Richard Mateo.Rosario notched a two-run single in the second, leading to RBI doubles by Sebastian Pereyra and Yonelvis Saneky, the latter scoring two. Joel Batista?s run-scoring triple punctuated the frame.A three-run third preceded two tallies in the following two innings. Highlights in that seven-run overall surge included two RBI doubles from Arheny Villa; an RBI single from Rosario; and Dereck Lyons? RBI fielder?s choice.The visitors batted around in their final trips, producing four doubles, three of which scored a run. Batista and Mike Blanco recorded a run-scoring single and fielder?s choice, respectively, before the teams shook hands.Now 0-14, the Tigers will look to right the ship tonight against St. Clement (7) before their season finale Friday in Lexington.