2025 Fall League Results- Week 1

9/14/25- Meadowlarks 12 - Spiders 11 (10inn)

9/14/25- Sons of Pitches 6 - Hortons 3

The Sons of Pitches rode effective shut-out pitching from Mo Partee and Mark Caputo en route to a 6-3 win in the first game of the 2025 Fall Ball season at Anniversary Field.

Partee faced off against Chris Bernacki, and both pitchers were solid – Partee allowed 3 baserunners in 3 scoreless innings, with a strikeout, and Bernacki matched him with 4 hitless innings, and 5 K’s, only allowing 1 unearned run, when Partee reached on an error in the 2nd, advanced to 3rd on a wild pitch and scored on Andy Klepacki’s sac fly to CF.

Caputo relieved Partee in the 4th and kept the Hortons off-balance with a nasty curve ball. The Hortons put 2 runners on in the 5th with 1 out, Shawn O’Grady reached 3rd on a single and 2-base error with no outs in 7th, and the first 2 batters in the 8th reached, but each time, Caputo was able to pitch out of trouble.

Meanwhile, the Sons took advantage of some shoddy fielding to add a run in the 5th, with Steve Wall scampering home on an error after singling off of reliever Tom Salvini. They then got to Salvini for 3 runs in the 6th. Caputo led off with a long triple to LF, scored on Partee’s single. Klepacki then singled, both runners advanced on a WP, and Marin Goldstein brought a run home on a SF to LF, on which Partee slide in just under O’Grady’s throw home. Stephen Higgins singled in the 3rd run before Salvini was able to shut the door.

Bill Evans relieved Salvini, and after 1 scoreless inning, allowed a run in the 8th when Higgins singled in Klepacki, who had singled.

The frustrated Hortons finally broke through in the 9th off of reliever Klepacki, loading the bases on a HBP, BB and single by Bernacki. After a strikeout and pop up, Micah Winston walked in a run and Evans and John Malikowski singled in a pair. With the tying run on first, Klepacki deferred to Partee, who closed the door by getting the ever-dangerous Diego Ortiz to line out to him, earning Partee a rare win and save in the same game.

Top hitters for the Sons were Caputo (2-4, triple), Klepacki (2-3, 2R, RBI) and Higgins (2-4, 2 RBI), and for the Hortons were Evans (2-4, RBI), Malikowski (2-4, RBI) and O’Grady (2-3). Defensive highlight was without a doubt by Sons LF Marin Goldstein, who made a lunging grab of a line drive to rob Malikowski with 2 runners on in the 7th.