East Islip LHP Lucas Patton fires a complete game 2-hit shutout against East Hampton to capture the Suffolk Class AA Championship! 🏆
They will face Garden City in the Long Island Championship on Thursday at Farmingdale State College pic.twitter.com/ch6RRKlVVK
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Statistically speaking, once East Islip scores 1 run, the game is over.
The Redmen’s historically dominant pitching staff entered Saturday’s County Finals allowing less than one run per game and recorded 10 shutouts on the season.
Once Mike Tramaglini hit a two-run single through the middle in the bottom of the first, the game was pretty much decided.
They sent junior LHP Lucas Patton to the mound, who entered with a 0.50 ERA. The southpaw, who relies on craft and not overpowering hitters, did so again by recording just one strikeout but yielded just two hits on the game – both singles.
East Hampton, who had a tremendous postseason run, knocking off top-seeded Eastport-South Manor, put together a rally in the second against Patton in which they had runners on first and second thanks to an error and a walk. Livs Kuplins lined a single to right field but Thomas Costarelli fired a strike home and catcher Matt Pasfield applied the tag on a bang-bang play. It certainly could’ve went either way but the umpire called him out.
That was as close as East Hampton would get to scoring.
The Redmen added runs in the fourth and fifth innings. Chris LaMacchia lined a single to score John Talt in the fourth inning and Tramaglini’s second RBI hit of the day came in the fifth inning.
Bottom 1: Mike Tramaglini drives in 2 with a single up the middle
East Islip 2, East Hampton 0 pic.twitter.com/akQ4Pf2p8i
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Patton went back out and fired scoreless frames the rest of the way to do his job. He yielded just a single in the fifth inning. Aside that, he was spotless – continuing a trend that dates back to their first series of the season when they swept Bellport without yielding a single hit.
Following the game, the soft-spoken Patton said, “I was hitting all my spot, all my pitches were working and I had great defense behind me.”
Patton later went on to expand further saying, “I have the best defense in the county behind me so I know that if I throw it and they hit it, it doesn’t matter.”
East Islip’s last county title came in 2021, when they went on to defeat Bethpage in the Long Island Championship. They will be back in action on Thursday against Garden City in what promises to be an exceptional game against the Trojans – who just swept Bellmore JFK in the Nassau Finals and have won all 6 of their playoff games. That will be Thursday at Farmingdale State College at 4:30pm. Thomas Costarelli, the favorite to win the Paul Gibson Award will be on the mound.
