Rake Collegiate clawed back from an early deficit, briefly held a one-run lead, and then watched the evening unravel in the fourth inning as the Philly Mummers erupted for seven runs en route to a 10–6 win Monday in Ambler.
The momentum shift? You could practically hear it. After Robert Del Buono laced a two-run single and a wild pitch brought home another to give Rake a 4–3 edge in the second, it looked like the home side had flipped the script.
Then came the fourth — an inning that felt more like a landslide than a rally. Four hits, a walk here, a hit-by-pitch there, and suddenly the scoreboard was blinking “10-4.” Matt Carr’s two-run double was the loudest swing, but the damage came from everywhere in the Mummers’ lineup.
Del Buono and Ryan Madden each notched two hits to pace Rake’s offense, which showed discipline with seven walks and aggressiveness with five stolen bases. Madden swiped two himself.
The Mummers, meanwhile, spread their offense like peanut butter — nine hits, six different players with an RBI, and multi-hit efforts from Kaden Pasternak, Dylan Pope, and Owen Pinkerton.
Rake gets a quick shot at redemption — these two clubs meet again on Wednesday.
Pitchers Rule, But Bandits Find Enough Bats to Beat Ghosts, 3–1
It wasn’t a shootout. It wasn’t a slugfest. In fact, for most of Monday’s game between the Philly Bandits Collegiate squad and Bucks County Ghost, it barely qualified as noisy. But in a game ruled by pitching and subtle moments, the Bandits found the right cracks and turned them into a 3–1 win.
Daniel Mateffy did his part — six innings, five hits, one run, five strikeouts — working with tempo, attacking the zone, and giving his infield plenty of ground balls to play with. And though Bucks County got on the board first thanks to Mike Burns’ RBI single in the fourth, the lead didn’t last long.
Jordan Czerniak answered with a sharp single up the middle in the bottom half, and an inning later, the Bandits nudged ahead for good. Brett Barrett’s RBI single down the line followed by Wyatt Spinks’ knock to left turned a tie game into a Bandits lead.
The rest? Call it controlled chaos. The Bandits swiped six bags — two by Leor Kedar — and kept constant pressure on the bases despite collecting just six hits. The Ghosts played error-free baseball, and Alex Jenkinson turned in a sharp start with five strikeouts over 3 2/3 innings.
But in a game that rarely exploded, it was the Bandits who found just enough spark.
Philly Fightin Quakers Ride Nine-Run Inning to 9–4 Win Over ASBA Futures
It was the kind of inning that makes you double-check the scorebook. One minute, the Philly Fightin Quakers were down two. The next? They had sent 13 men to the plate, sprayed four hits, drawn three walks, and dropped a nine-spot on ASBA Futures Collegiate Team. Game flipped. Just like that.
The final read on Monday’s game at Gwynedd Mercy: Philly 9, ASBA Futures 4. But the real story lived in the bottom of the third.
After falling behind 2–0 — one run scoring on a bases-loaded walk, another via a productive groundout — the Quakers turned the tide with the sort of controlled chaos that makes summer baseball so much fun. The rally had a little bit of everything: sharp grounders, patient at-bats, well-timed base swipes, and the big swing — a two-run double off the bat of Brendan Raven that cleared the left-center gap and cracked the game open.
Raven finished the day 2-for-3 with a pair of RBIs. Hitting right behind him? Mikey Amrhein, who also notched two hits, forming a formidable tandem in the heart of the lineup. The Quakers showed discipline too, working seven walks. Michael Christian and Anthony Trommer each earned two free passes, with Trommer also swiping two bags as part of a four-steal afternoon for Philly.
On the mound, Justus Agosto got the start and battled through three innings, giving up two runs while striking out four. Nolan Walker handled things from there, holding ASBA to just two more runs the rest of the way.
The Futures collected five hits in the loss — singles from Will Gural, Jacob Ruddell, Nick Prince, Christian Cerone, and Daly. Ruddell, Prince, and Cerone each drove in a run. Owen Ripple swiped two bags.
But in the end, that nine-run third proved too steep a hill to climb.
