New Rochelle hammers Mount Vernon
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- April
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This was a meeting of two clubs going in opposite directions. New Rochelle is hot, having won three of four. Mount Vernon, losers of four straight, is not. New Ro easily defeated the Knights, 16-3. The Huguenots, which have climbed back to .500, scored six in the first and seven in the sixth.
The offense was balanced. Andrew Bruzzese, Anthony Petrone, Brett Rosen, and Matt Duran all had their moments. Bruzzese won his third game by pitching six innings.
The one remarkable thing about this game was that Mount Vernon starter Michael Phelps went the distance. He was responsible for 14 earned runs, 14 hits, and nine walks. I don’t have an exact pitch count on him, but it had to be way up there. Coach Joe Mazzella said he didn’t mind because Phelps was still throwing strikes. But his velocity was clearly down, and the game was so out of hand by the end, it was unclear why he was still in. As he was getting battered in the sixth, Mazzella went to pull him. But after a conference at the mound he left him in.
“He says ‘Coach I want to stay,’” Mazzella said. “I was going to take him out and he said ‘Coach I’m doing well, I’m throwing the ball well, it’s just that (the defense isn’t) making the plays.’”
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Josh Thomson has done some of everything since joining The Journal News in
March 2003. He began working for the Gannett weeklies during the winter of
2002 as a freelance writer. He joined the daily staff soon after and has
since covered various high school and pro sports. Away from sportswriting,
Josh lives in Westchester and spends his free time either with his
fiancee, Sarah, or expertly managing his various championship-winning
fantasy sports teams. He's visited 21 major-league baseball stadiums and
insists that Fenway Park and Wrigley Field are the best by far. Josh
graduated from Carmel High School in 1998, then went to Boston University,
where, in 2002, he received a degree in communications with a minor in
history. 
Jake Thomases has covered baseball, hockey, girls basketball, and girls soccer for the Journal News since arriving in 2003. He previously interned at The Poughkeepsie Journal while attending Vassar College. He is socking money away under his mattress to buy the Knicks, at which time he will trade Jerome James to Cleveland for a ham sandwich.
Why would Coach Mazzella leave him in? Especially at that point of the game. Didn’t Pedro want to stay in as well? Coach Mazzella=Grady Little.