Unfortunately the reverse has been true when the local entrant in the Cape Cod Baseball League plays away from the friendly confines of the Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field.

     Falmouth traveled to Brewster’s new Stony Brook Field yesterday and suffered a tough 4-2 defeat on the road. Four games into the young campaign the team sits at 2-2 overall, having won twice at home and lost twice on the road.

     Yesterday the story was a local hurler having himself quite a day. Brewster pitcher Cody Crowell (Vanderbilt), who hails from Harwich, was outstanding throughout his seven innings of work as he stymied Falmouth’s batters all afternoon. The lefty fanned 11 and walked none as he allowed just one earned run over seven innings. Colt Hynes (Texas Tech) worked the last two innings and picked up the save for the Whitecaps, who improved to 2-2 themselves.

     Falmouth starter Kris Dobrowiecki (Northeastern) cruised through the first three innings, but then ran into trouble in the middle frames en route to suffering the loss. 

     An error by the Falmouth pitcher led to an unearned run in the fourth as the home team grabbed a lead it would never relinquish. After getting the inning’s first batter with a fly out to center, Dobrowiecki handcuffed first baseman Jeremy Farrell (Virginia) with a low throw that allowed Brewster’s Matt Cusick (Southern Cal) to reach. That miscue would come back to hurt the pitcher when, with two outs, Jason Corder (Cal-Berkley) connected for the home team’s first hit of the game, a run-scoring double to center that broke the scoreless deadlock.

     Brewster sent eight men to the plate against Falmouth pitching in the fifth and chased Dobrowiecki from the game as they scored two more. After retiring the first batter of the inning, Falmouth’s starting pitcher began to lose control as he issued consecutive walks to the next two men. The second of the two walks was far more costly for Falmouth, and not just because that runner would score Brewster’s third run of the day. 

     Falmouth catcher Andrew Walker (Texas Christian) was severely injured when Adam LaPlante (Wheaton) check-swung and broke his bat over Walker’s left elbow.

     Both Dobrowiecki bases on balls in the fourth would come on to score in the fourth, giving the Whitecaps a 3-0 lead.

     Falmouth’s lone rally that resulted in any runs came in the top of the sixth when they pushed one in. Right fielder Warren McFadden (Tulane) drilled a triple to right-center field, beating the throw into third on the hustle play to lead the inning off. Hank Coogan (Richmond), who entered the game to relieve the injured Walker, then stepped in and delivered a single up the middle in his first Cape League at-bat to make it 3-1.

     Brewster added another run in the bottom of the eighth to give themselves a bit of breathing room. Colin Cowgill (Kentucky) led off the eighth with a line-drive ground-rule double to left-center. Cowgill was then delivered from second when Andrew Romine (Arizona State) blooped a double to make it 4-1.

     Falmouth got one back with two down in the top of the ninth. Big-hitting Aja Barto (Tulane), who entered the game batting well over .600 during the early stages of the season, walloped a homer over the center field fence to account for the 4-2 final.
Earlier in the week, the Commodores beat up on previously unbeaten Cotuit on Sunday afternoon, taking a 5-1 Father’s Day decision behind the pitching of Cory Luebke (Ohio State), who worked six shutout one-hit innings. Matt Nuzzo (Brown) drilled his league-leading second homer of the season and Barto went 2-for-2 at the plate with a pair of walks.

     On Saturday Falmouth lost for the first time as they came up short at Wareham. Falmouth rallied from a four-run deficit to get close in the seventh, but ended up falling by one, 7-6. Phil Bartleski (Oklahoma City) suffered the loss, allowing seven runs (four earned) in the game. On opening day Falmouth rode a big pitching performance by Ross Detwiler (Missouri State) to the win. The lefty fanned eight in the win and gave up just two hits. Nuzzo homered in his first at-bat to start the rally and Ryan Anetsberger (Illinois State), Evan Ocheltree (Wake Forest) and Barto all drove in runs.

     The team visits Chatham today at 7 PM and hosts Harwich tomorrow night at 7.