18u Yankees Win PG Ways to Play Tournament

Over the weekend, 16 teams gathered at Perfect Game Park South-LakePoint for a tournament that pitted some of the top travel teams from across the country against one another.

This 16-team tournament, the Ways to Play tournament powered by Perfect Game and Major League Baseball, featured seven unique rules designed by MLB to address growing concerns about the slowed pace of play in baseball.

Ways to Play Tournament powered by Perfect Game and MLB – 18u Yankees

The East Cobb Yankees, based out of Marietta, Ga., completed back-to-back comebacks on Sunday to capture the Ways to Play championship, beating the Canes, 5-4, in the championship.

The Yankees took a 2-0 lead in the fifth, but immediately surrendered that by allowing three runs in the bottom half of the inning. The Yankees surged in the sixth for three runs of their own, though, thanks to catcher Nicholas Watson-Garcia and shortstop Ryan Bliss, who each had two RBIs.

This came after the Yankees went down 4-0 in the first two innings to the East Cobb Astros in the semifinal. In that game, the Yankees tied things up in the sixth and then added the go-ahead run in the seventh. After the Astros tied the game in the top of the ninth, the Yankees walked off in the bottom of the ninth to advance to the championship.

Ryan Getz, a right-handed pitcher from Marietta, was named the team’s MVP after throwing seven innings of one-run baseball with a 0.714 WHIP in the tournament.

Ways to Play Tournament powered by Perfect Game and Major League Baseball  MVP– Ryan Getz

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