Gatemen open season with a win over Hyannis
Fans filled the stands at Spillane Field on Sunday night for the Wareham Gatemen’s home opening game against the Hyannis Harbor Hawks, which the home team won 2-1.
The game was the first of the 2022 season, which will be the first full-length season for the Cape Cod Baseball League since 2019, pre-pandemic. The League’s teams consist of high-level collegiate players from around the country, allowing Major League scouts to check out prospects.
Although a number of the players drafted for the Gatemen are still playing in championships with their college teams, the crowd was in for a good night of baseball.
Good defense work by both teams kept the score tied at 0-0 for the first six innings.
At the top of the seventh, Harbor Hawk Rocco Peppi hit a home run.
The Gatemen scored twice in the second half of the inning.
In his post-game round-up, Gatemen staff writer Barrett Hodgson praised Gatemen starting pitcher Michael Sansone, who played on the Bourne team last year with new Gatemen manager Harvey Shapiro. Sansone had a six strikeout performance, throwing 37 strikes in 52 pitches, Hodgson wrote, noting that the lefty only allowed two hits across four innings.
The team will play the Bourne Braves at 6 p.m. on Monday at Spillane Field. All Gatemen games are free to attend and are live-streamed on the team’s Youtube channel.
For more information, go to www.gatemen.org.