The Melrose Americans put up crooked numbers in the first and fourth innings to stay perfect (3-0) and hand the Blue Sox their first loss (1-1-1) in a 10-3 win in Lexington on Friday night. It was the only game on the iCL schedule. The Americans scored all the runs they’d need on four consecutive two-out hits in the top of the 1st, punctuated by Tad Giardina’s three-run homer to dead center. After allowing three runs on two hits in the bottom of the first, Brandon McMahon (1-0) allowed no runs and two hits over the next five innings to pick up his first win. Ryan Dolan struck out the Blue Sox in order in the bottom of the seventh. Jon Leuders and Anderson Jimenez each had a double and scored a run for the Blue Sox. There are no ICL games on Saturday.

Mike Nestor allowed just one hit over 6.1 innings to lead the Melrose Americans to a 3-1 win over the Andre Chiefs at Morelli Field on Wednesday night. John Jennings drove in all three of the runs. Nestor struck out nine before giving way to Nick Colucci who picked up the save in the seventh. Shai Cohen (0-1) took the loss. The Lexington Blue Sox got four RBI’s from Jean Ramirez and three hits, including a triple, from Ben Leonard to beat the Stoneham Sabers 11-5 in Lexington. In other action, the Malden Maddogs scored six times in the bottom of the fifth inning to beat the Lexington Bulldogs 13-10. The Bulldogs scored seven runs of their own in the top of the fifth to take a 10-7 lead. On Thursday the Bulldogs host the Middlesex Expos at LHS at 7:00 PM and the Al Thomas A’s of the Yawkey League visit the Chiefs at Maplewood at 8:00 PM.