The wet weather that hung around Falmouth through Wednesday into yesterday morning left town in time for the Commodores to get in the back end of a home-and-home series against the Harwich Mariners at the Arnie Allen Diamond at Guv Fuller Field. Unfortunately for the local nine, though, the team would have been better off had the precipitation never ceded.

Falmouth was held without a victory for the sixth consecutive game yesterday as the Harwich Mariners pounded out 13 hits and rode a two-home run performance by designated hitter, and ninth man in the batting order Eric Fryer (Ohio State), en route to an 11-6 win at the old diamond off Main Street. Falmouth pitching was able to keep Harwich scoreless over the first two and last two innings, but the middle five frames were more than problematic as the M’s plated at least one run in all five.

The Commodores fell to 6-10-1 overall and have gone 0-5-1 during the last six. Things have really been tough on the team over the last three games of the recent stretch as the club has been outscored by an astronomical 34-12 count. Harwich had won the previous game, on July 4, by a 9-3 score. The game before that one, last Monday, saw Chatham bust out the whooping sticks in a 14-3 rout of the Commodores.

Heading into yesterday’s action the Commodores had to like their chances to the see the winless streak come to an end as Head Coach Jeff Trundy threw out his most reliable starter of the year, Cory Luebke (Ohio State). Entering the contest Luebke had been doing a great job of keeping batters off balance and from rounding the bases as he had posted a 2-0 record over three starts with a paltry 0.98 earned run average. Over 18.1 innings opponents had scored just two runs off the left-hander.

In the third inning, though, that began to turn around as the Mariners would touch up Luebke for seven runs. The starter lasted five-plus innings and surrendered eight hits, while striking out four and walking two.

The Commodores held leads of 3-1 and 6-4 in the game, but the Mariners rallied to tie it up against the Ohio State Buckeye in the sixth when Devin Thomas (Brown) led the inning off with a double that center fielder Brad Chalk (Clemson) lost in the lights and then Josh Horton walked to put two aboard for the M’s. Josh Donaldson (Auburn) followed with a textbook perfect hit-and-run single to plate one run and then the tying run came home when Chad Flack (North Carolina) hit into a run-scoring double play.

The eventual winning run would come home in the sixth for Harwich, in an inning that started wonderfully for Luebke and the Commodores. The starter, whose pitch count was hovering near 100, struck out the first two men before walking Fryer on a 3-2 pitch. That was the last batter for Luebke, who was replaced by Joe Patterson (Oregon State). The left-handed reliever could not find home plate when he entered the game as he walked the first man, then hit a batter and then walked Horton with the bases loaded to drive in the go-ahead run. Patterson would finally escape the jam by getting Donaldson to fly out deep to center.

Harwich would go on to touch up reliever Sean Morgan (Tulane) for four more runs in the seventh to put the game away. The big blow was another three-run homer by Fryer, who connected on a 2-0 pitch to hit to almost the same spot over the left-center field fence that his previous blast had cleared.

Early on it looked like Falmouth was on its way to ending the streak. Falmouth scored a gift run in the first when Harwich second baseman Devin Sublett (Wichita State) dropped a would-be inning-ending fly ball off the bat of Warren McFadden (Tulane) that allowed Brad Chalk, who the inning off with a single for Falmouth, to come around from second.

Harwich would tie it up in the top of the third, but the Commodores came right back with two more runs. Brett Wallace (Arizona State) roped a double down the right field line with one down to score Mitch Canham (Oregon State) to make it 2-1 and then, with two away, Taylor Harbin (Clemson) drilled a double to the gap in left to make it 3-1.

The Mariners fired back with three in the top of the fourth, with Fryer’s first homer scoring all three. But, Falmouth answered with a three-spot of its own in the bottom of the frame to take a 6-4 lead. Aja Barton (Tulane), who made a pair of spectacular catches in the field, led the inning off with a hit and then went to second on a walk to Stan Widman (Clemson). A sacrifice put both in scoring position and then Canham walked to load the bases. Barto scored on a wild pitch and then Andrew Walker (TCU) and McFadden provided sac flies.

Falmouth will attempt to get back on the winning trail today at Y-D at 5 PM. The team hosts Wareham on Saturday at 5:30 and visits Chatham for two on Sunday.