Lucas Patton
GAME RECAP: East Islip Captures Suffolk Class A Championship Over East Hampton
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 — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) May 31, 2025 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 ove...
GAME RECAP: Seven-Run 4th Inning Powers West Babylon to 9-5 Victory
Andrew Mandelbaum had 2 hits including a 2-R HR that capped a 7-run inning for West Babylon in a 9-5 win over East Islip @GetGameChanger pic.twitter.com/Zb4IOgz8Is — Axcess Baseball LI (@axcessbaseball) April 23, 2025 For a brief period, this game resembled all of East Islip‘s previous games this season – allowing no runs and taking a 3-0 lead with an ace pitcher on the mound. Then came a nightmare fourth inning in which they allowed West Babylon to send 13 batters to the plate, 7 to score punctuated by a two-run homer to Andrew Mandelbaum. It was a complete surprise, as East Islip had thrown an incredible seven shutouts through their first 8 league games. The pitching match up was a great one – Anthony Gerbasio for West Babylon against Albany-commit Jaden Schmidt for the...
On the Back of a Deep Pitching Staff, East Islip Aspires to Claim Championship
Special thanks to Metamorphosis Landscape Design for sponsoring this year’s series by George Caratzas Coming off a regular season that saw the East Islip Redmen go 13-5 in league play, before eventually losing in the playoffs, head coach Sal Ciampi Jr. has much of his dominant pitching core returning for 2025. In 2024, the Redmen were carried by their pitching staff, having five pitchers with earned run averages under three. Of their five regular-season losses, four of them were by one run or were games that were decided in the final at bat. This year, all five of East Islip’s big arms are back as they look to claim a championship. “It was disappointing from the standpoint of it ending where it ended,” Ciampi said in an interview with Axcess Baseball. “But, we set ourselves up to b...
