The Bayport-Blue Point baseball team has hit the magic number for the season of 20 and now they eye the post season.
The Phantoms ended their regular season with a perfect 20-0 record and did so in dominating fashion. They ended the year by sweeping a three-game series against Southampton and outscoring them 22-4.
Outscoring teams by crazy margins has been the norm for this team this season. Overall, the Phantoms outscored their opponents 163 to just 20. That sort of disparity is amazing without context but when you dive into the numbers of how they accumulated those eye-popping numbers it becomes even more of an indicator of how dominant this team has been on the year.
The pitching staff and defense held teams 20 opponents to a combined 20 runs over those 20 games. The simple math shows that is an average of one run per game, but when you consider that the Phantoms had one "off" game where they allowed 8 runs on the road against Babylon it tells an even bigger story. If you throw that game out that means the other 19 games, they allowed a combined 12 runs to cross the plate. Sheer dominance.
Digging in further this staff shut out teams in 12 of their 20 games including not allowing a run in four straight games, against three different schools, back in early April.
This isn't a one man show either as both Mike Messina and Cooper Fuller have 6 wins a piece, while Brady Gelling isn't far behind with 5 wins on the season.
Offensively this team scored double digits in nine of their 20 games and scored 9 runs another three times. They averaged more than 8 runs per game and while the pitching will get the bulk of the attention, we can't overlook this explosive offense.
The Phantoms look like the team to beat in Suffolk as we head into the postseason.