Sharon's Fishman Takes Loss to OA in Rainy Game

The Sharon varsity baseball team fell to Oliver Ames in a rainy game at Easton's Frothingham Park Wednesday.

The 7-3 loss came with star pitcher Jake Fishman on the mound.

“Fishman is probably the best pitcher in the league and the last time he struck out like 11 of us and we looked stupid," OA head coach Leo Duggan said. "Today we just put the ball into play and they made a couple mistakes and we got some big hits finally.”

Sharon head coach Joel Peckham blames the loss on poor defense.

“We made too many mistakes. That’s why we lost. We battled back, we hit the ball pretty good,” Peckham said. “We’re an aggressive team, we hit the ball reasonably well and Fishman is in my mind the best pitcher in the league and they did hit the ball but we made three or four errors that cost us the game.”

With the score tied 1-1 in the bottom of the third inning the Eagles allowed three runs and would not be able to muster up enough hits to mount a comeback.

“They got the runs early and you can’t do that. They’re a good team, we’re a good team. We didn’t play as well as we needed to play,” Peckham said.

Fishman was outdueled by OA pitcher Chris Servello who improved to 6-0 on the season.

“Give Chris credit he pitched a nice ballgame. We made a couple mistakes defensively, kind of let them in and then Brian Brady came in and got the last four outs,” said Duggan.

The Eagles are now 10-8 on the season and will play on the road against Foxborough next Monday.