Evan Walsh evened his record at 3-3 and Leivi Ventura (pictured) hit his fifth homer of the season, a fourth inning grand slam, to lead the Andre Chiefs to a 10-2 win over the Malden Maddogs at Maplewood. Matt Nuzzo had a single, double, and two RBI’s and Johnny Welch had three hits and scored three runs for the Chiefs. Shane O’Halloran had three of the Maddogs’ seven hits. Blaine McLean (1-4) took the loss. Julian Alvarez’ bases-loaded infield single scored Nate Wolf with the winning run when the Blue Sox walked off for the fourth time this year in a 3-2 win over the Reading Bulldogs in Lexington. Wolf gave the Blue Sox a 2-1 lead in the third with his first home run of the summer. Jeff Roy tied it in the sixth for Reading with his first home run of the season. Borja Jones-Berasulce (1-1) retired all four batters he faced, two on strikeouts for the win in relief. In Watertown, the Reds scored seven times in the bottom of third inning and went on to beat the Wakefield Merchants 8-2 at Victory Field. Nate Beck (2-2) scattered four hits, with help from Mike Wesoloski, who worked the seventh.

Steve Tramontozzi’s bases loaded walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh inning completed the Reds’ comeback and carried them to a 3-2 win over the Lexington Blue Sox in Watertown. It was a night of Lucky 7’s for Matt Horan, who went the seven inning route, earned his seventh straight win, improved to 7-0 on the year, allowed seven hits, and struck out seven. Will Brennan, with two hits, and Jake Miller, had the other RBI’s for the Reds. Taylor Ferguson homered for the Blue Sox in the third inning when they took a 2-0 lead. Nick Godfroy (1-2) took the loss in relief of Alsis Herrera and Borja Jones-Berasaluce, who came on in the fifth inning. The Alibrandis-Reading doublehaeder and the Malden-Somerville games, scheduled earlier in the day, were both postponed due to rain.

The Reading Bulldogs scored five times in the top of the eighth inning, breaking a 2-2 tie, and went on to a 7-3 extra inning win over the Melrose Americans at Morelli Field. The Bulldogs got a homer, two hits, and two RBI from Chris Bosco (pictured), and three hits from Tyler Cedeno, to lead the 14 hit attack. Malcolm Nachmanoff homered and Dave Center had three hits for the Americans. Ben Gottesman (2-0) got the win with two innings of relief. In Thursday’s other game, the Wakefield Merchants edged Alibrandis 7-6 at Ferullo Field in Woburn.

Lew Jensen spun a complete game five-hitter and Alibrandis got homers from Dave Lightbody and Teddy Dziuba to beat the Melrose Americans 8-1 at Morelli Field. Jensen (2-1) struck out seven. For Lightbody (pictured left) its was his fourth homer of the season. Dan Cacciola had two of the five Melrose hits. Alibrandis scored twice in the third and added a half dozen runs in the fourth to erase a 1-0 Americans’ first inning lead. Chris Butler’s two run double tied the game, and Scott Searles single provided the go ahead run, when the Wakefield Merchants scored three times in the top of the sixth inning to come from behind and beat the Andre Chiefs 4-2 at Maplewood. Alex Erwin (1-0) went 5.1 innings to get the win while Brandon Bartlett recorded his first save. Evan Walsh (2-3) blanked the Merchants over the first five frames but took the loss. Sacrifice flies from Danny DiMare and Juan Portes gave the Chiefs a 2-0 lead. Veteran Dan Graham singled in the tying run, and Thomas Russo brought in the winning run with an infield out in the sixth, when the Blue Sox scored twice to go in front and then held on to nip the Somerville Royals 3-2 in Lexington. Domenic Zahr threw out the tying run at the plate to end the game. Somerville took a 2-1 lead on RBI singles from Jake Cintolo and John Collette in the top of the fifth. Drew Brzozowski (1-0) picked up the win with 1.1 IP, 1H, 2Ks in relief of Casey Bussone and Conor Gleason got the save. Chris Ramos (0-1) took the loss despite allowing just four hits as the Royals outhit the Sox 8-4 in the game. (Craig Henry Photo)