Blues walk off Waves in extra innings

The Blues walked off the Ocean State Waves in a 3-2 victory in an eleven inning thriller last night at Muzzy Field to get back to .500 on the season. 

After Tuesday night's game got rained out against the Sanford Mainers, the Blues took the field after a couple of days off. Going into the game, the Waves were just a game and a half behind them in the South Division standings. 

In the bottom of the second inning, Evan Menzel (UConn) singled to bring in Cal Chance (UMass Lowell) who reached on an error to make it 1-0. Ryan Maggy (West Virginia) singled back up the middle in the bottom of the third inning to add on to the Blues lead and make it a 2-0 game. 

On the mound, Kyle Peters (UConn) kept the Waves bats at bay as he allowed just two hits and one walk across five innings and no earned runs. Bristol turned to another Husky out of the bullpen in Frank Spirito (UConn). Spiritio picked up where Peters left off, tossing a scoreless sixth inning. But in the top of the seventh, Gabriel Milano (Miami FL) homered over the right field wall to make it 2-1 which was just the second time this season that someone sent one out of Muzzy. 

Holding onto a one run lead going into the top of the ninth, Bristol brought out James Mulvaney to try and get the save. Brody Bitove (Indiana) led off the inning with a single and then advanced to second on a passed ball. After a sacrifice bunt to advance Bitove to third, Milano came through for the Waves with an RBI single to tie the game 2-2.  

Trey Telfer (San Diego State University) shut the Blues out in the ninth and the tenth inning. In the top of the eleventh, the Waves threatened to take the lead with runners on the corners and nobody out. But Thomas Galusha (Bryant) struckout three straight batters and Bristol had a chance to win it in the bottom of the eleventh. 

Bristol could no longer lose the game due to the NECBL rules. If the game is still tied after eleven innings it ends in a tie. Trent Rice (Michigan State) was placed on second as the extra innings runner and Colin Crowley led off the inning. Crowley laid down a bunt to move Rice over to third. Telfer tried to throw Crowley out at first but threw the ball away and Rice came in to score off the error and the Blues won in walk-off fashion 3-2. 

"You never count these guys out," Blues head coach Gregg Hunt said. "We were in trouble in the tenth and the eleventh and these guys came back and battled." 

The win was the first extra innings game that the Blues played in the 2026 season and was their first walk-off win of the season as well.  

The Blues will travel to Fitch High School to take on the Mystic Schooners in their next game on June 25. Bristol will have a chance to get above .500 for the first time since June ninth and extend their win streak to three games. First pitch is set for 6:30.  

Written by Ryan McKenna