Forget all about the slow start that the Falmouth Commodores had to their season. All of a sudden the pinstriped club from Falmouth is the hottest team in the Cape Cod Baseball League and flirting with the top of the west division. With a dominant performance last night, beating Bourne 9-4 on the road at Doran Park, the Commodores closed to within one point of first place in the division as they took over third by themselves.

Falmouth is now 16-14-1 (31 points). Bourne and Hyannis hold a slim lead on the Commodores, with 17-16 records (33 points), but Falmouth has two games in hand and a two-game advantage in the loss column over both teams. Cotuit, which has been on a slide, is in fourth place at 15-17 (30 points).

Last night’s ballgame got off to a very sloppy start, with each team scoring four times and committing two errors apiece through the first two frames. Bourne threatened to add more in the third, as they got a leadoff walk against the Commodores’ starter Alex Wilson (Texas A&M). With Wilson not having his best stuff, and the game against a team above them in the standings meaning quite a bit, Falmouth skipper Jeff Trundy went to the bullpen early, bringing Jorge Reyes (Oregon State) on after Wilson had faced just 12 batters. The move proved to be a brilliant one for Falmouth.

Reyes, who was the College World Series MVP in 2007 but has had trouble recapturing the magic ever since that time, was outstanding from the get-go. The right-hander got the first batter he faced to bounce into a double play and then never looked back. He would allow just three baserunners through six innings, all of which came on walks. Over those hitless frames he fanned 10 and helped the Commodores take the game back over.

Falmouth broke the 4-all tie in the top of the fourth with two runs. Ryan Jones (Wichita State) started the inning off great for the visitors by lining a homer down the short right field line. The homer was Jones’ team-leading sixth, which is good for second in the league.

Falmouth wasn’t done there, though. Darin Ruf (Creighton) singled to left and then, with one out, AJ Pollack (Notre Dame) reached on an infield hit. Joey Wong’s pop-up single to shallow right loaded the bases for Trevor Coleman, who pushed a run across with a swinging bunt up the first base line to make it 6-4.

Two more runs in the fifth opened the game up. With Jones aboard, Ruf drove a double down the third base line to make it 7-4. He later scored on a sacrifice fly to left by Wong. Falmouth added an unearned run in the sixth to account for their final run.

Today Falmouth plays against Wareham on Martha’s Vineyard. The team is back at home tomorrow when it faces Harwich at 7 PM.