Brooks Lee throws and hits in recent Cape Cod League game. The shortstop finished the season at Yarmouth-Dennis with a .405 average.
Summer Leagues: Lee Wraps Up Play on Cape with .405 Average
8/10/2021 2:54:00 PM | Baseball
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Last week, Lee went 14-for-24 (.583) at the plate with three doubles and a pair of home runs. Included in the totals was a 5-for-5 performance against Harwich on July 27 as Lee belted two singles, a pair of doubles and a home run.
Lee's season ended Tuesday night -- Wednesday's game was rained out -- with a .405 batting average, including four doubles, six home runs and 13 RBIs in 21 games.
An eight-game hitting streak was snapped on the final day of the season, a streak in which Lee went 18-for-35 (.514) with four doubles, three home runs and six RBIs.
Lee didn't qualify for the league's batting title as he fell short of 2.7 plate appearances per team games played, as he stepped away from Yarmouth-Dennis to participate in the Collegiate National Team's tryouts in Cary, N.C.
The Cape's winner of the batting title hit .344, 61 points less than Lee's average. Even with the fewer number of games played in the Cape -- Lee played in 21 games for Yarmouth-Dennis while other players in the league competed in as many as 37 games -- Lee was tied for sixth in home runs with six and tied for 10th in hits with 34.
Lee has drawn the attention of former ESPN analyst and current MLB Network on-air and MLB.com online analyst Peter Gammons.
"The Cape League endured a trying summer, between showcase tryouts, Team USA, no makeup games," wrote Gammons on his Twitter page, "so when SH SS Brooks Lee of San Luis Obispo (hit) .405 and fell 16 PAs short of qualifying, to me he's the first player to hit .400 since Matt Murton.
"Lee has a remarkable baseball IQ, 6-2 and a left-handed swing with big power," Gammons added. "Father (is) Cal Poly coach, baseball family, reliability obvious."
Murton hit exactly .400 for Wareham in 2002.
Lee played 11 games during Team USA's intrasquad series in late June and early July, hitting .306 with 11 hits in 36 at-bats, including two doubles, a home run, four RBIs and a pair of steals. He also competed in a three-game series versus the U.S. Olympic Team on July 13-15, going 3-for-10 with a home run and one RBI.
Last summer, Lee, who will be a junior at Cal Poly in the spring of 2022, hit .345 with the Willmar Stingers in the Northwoods League. Lee's 51 hits were the second-highest total in the league and his .345 mark was No. 7. He was fourth with 35 RBIs and produced hits in 33 of his 36 contests, including multiple-hit games in eight of his last 11 starts.
The San Luis Obispo High School graduate opened his Stingers season with a 19-game hitting streak and had another streak of nine games snapped late in the season. He put together a string of four two-hit games from August 9-11 and finished the year with seven doubles and four home runs in 36 games, including 14 multiple-hit contests.
Right-hander Drew Thorpe was 1-1 with a 12.38 ERA and 11 strikeouts over eight innings for Team USA. His victory was an 11-4 decision over the Stars in the final game of an 11-game intrasquad series and he has been shut down for the rest of the summer.
Thorpe made two starts on the Cape and had no decisions and an 0.90 ERA with nine strikeouts over 10 innings, also for Yarmouth-Dennis.
Meanwhile, six Mustangs are still playing in the West Coast League while two other Mustangs are with Northwoods League teams.
At Corvallis, Taison Corio is hitting .245 with six doubles, four home runs and 16 RBIs. Over his last nine games he has gone 14-for-31 (.452) at the plate with two doubles, a pair of home runs and five RBIs.
Chase Walter is 3-0 with a 5.31 ERA on the mound for the Knights. He has struck out 13 batters over 20 1/3 innings and earned his third win August 5 against Yakima Valley, striking out six over 2 2/3 scoreless innings.
At Wenatchee, Collin Villegas is hitting .279 with three doubles, a triple, one home run and five RBIs in 20 games. He has stolen six bases. Villegas went 6-for-17 (.353) with a triple, home run and five RBIs over his last five games.
At Portland, Evan Tomlinson is 2-1 with a 3.31 ERA, striking out 17 over 16 1/3 innings. He has made 12 appearances on the mound for the Pickles. In 19 mound appearances, Chris Baytosh sports a 2-1 record and 4.50 ERA with 23 strikeouts over 20 innings.
Incoming freshman Steven Brooks is 1-3 for the summer with a 5.31 ERA at Port Angeles. In 15 appearances (five starts), he has struck out 31 batters over 40 2/3 innings.
At Eau Claire of the Northwoods League, Nick Marinconz is hitting .263 in 51 games with nine doubles, two home runs and 31 RBIs with four steals.
Zach Button owns an 0-2 record and 4.85 ERA with four saves at Waterloo, striking out 16 batters over 13 innings. He tossed one scoreless inning for his fourth save against the Mankato MoonDogs on August 6.
The West Coast League regular season ends Thursday while the Northwoods League slate runs through August 20.
Tate Samuelson hit .272 for the San Luis Obispo Blues, who split six games against the defending National Baseball Congress national champion Santa Barbara Foresters this summer.
Samuelson was 34-for-125 at the plate with six doubles, four home runs, 23 RBIs and seven stolen bases.
On the mound, Kaden Sheedy made three starts and was 1-2 with a 4.62 ERA and 21 strikeouts over 11 2/3 innings. He notched eight strikeouts in a 9-1 win over the Coastal Cubs on June 22 as he allowed one run and one hit over four innings.
The Blues wrapped up their 2021 season August 1, posting a 17-15 record.
Reagan Doss played for the SENF Cazadores, a South Texas Five Tools Collegiate League team located in Austin, Texas, and hit .290 with two doubles, a pair of triples and seven RBIs.
Incoming freshman Ryan Stafford is hitting .291 for the Badland Big Sticks in Dickinson, North Dakota. A catcher, Stafford has 13 doubles, two triples and three home runs among his 48 hits with 22 RBIs and 35 runs scored. He has stolen six bases with 11 multiple-hit games, including four three-hit contests.
The Big Sticks have qualified for the Expedition League playoffs, which begin Monday.
Stafford hit a grand slam on June 25 in an 11-6 win over the Mining City Tommyknockers and was hitting .321 after his fourth three-hit game of the season July 22 at Wheat City.
"(Stafford) is a workhorse, he has done a great job," head coach Billy Tomblin said. "The kid is a competitor, works hard, and shows up every day. I love coaching him and I love him being part of this program."
Infielder Matthias Haas, also an incoming freshman, is hitting .255 for the North Shore Navigators in Lynn, Mass. Haas has two doubles, one triple, one home run and 14 RBIs in 19 games with seven multiple-hit contests and three steals for the New England Collegiate Baseball League team.
The Navigators are competing in the NECBL's North Division playoffs.
Haas bumped his batting average up 51 points from .209 to .260 by going 9-for-18 during a five-game stretch from July 24-28. He was 4-for-5, all singles, with four RBIs in an 11-0 win over Winnipesaukee on July 28.
Tanner Sagouspe owns a .250 average for the DC Grays with two triples and eight RBIs in 10 games. The San Joaquin Memorial (Fresno) High School graduate threw out two runners trying to score on sacrifice flies in a recent game.
The DC Grays finished the season 11-25.
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