By The TimesLedger
The Bayside Yankees Senior Americans dropped the second game of the Connie Mack World Series Saturday, falling to the Midland Redskins from Cincinnati, Ohio, 12-3.
John Defendis led things off for the visiting Yankees, driving a single up the middle but he failed to score when Tom Sgueglia hit into a 5-4-3 double play.
Nick Hundley singled, but was picked off by Midland pitcher Scott Lewis to end Bayside’s rally.
Jason Brown led off the bottom of the first with a single and scored when rightfielder Micky Hall crushed a towering home run over the rightfield fence to put the Redskins ahead, 2-0.
The Yankees cut its deficit to one, 2-1 in the second when Eric Duncan doubled off the centerfield wall and then scored on Matt Barrett’s single.
Midland answered back in the bottom of the inning when Lee Land homered over the leftfield wall. Yankees starter Jason Short gave Scott Pittenger a free pass, Brown followed with an RBI-double. Micky Hall’s single scored Brown to put the hosts ahead, 5-1.
Brown was not done though, as he belted a two-run homer in Midland’s three-run fifth inning to put the Redskins comfortably ahead, 9-3. Hall, who went 4-for-4 on the day to earn player of the game honors, added his second home run of the game to cap the inning’s scoring.
Midland sealed the game in the sixth inning when, following Warner Jones’ leadoff single, Jim Duffy hit a two-run shot over the rightfield fence to end the game by the eight-run mercy rule.
