Canton’s Nick Quattro, shown here on the mound this spring with Endicott College, finished the summer with Bourne in the Cape Cod League. (Photo courtesy Endicott College)
If this was Major League Baseball, it would be considered a cup of coffee – a tasty, tantalizing treat of playing baseball with the best baseball players in the world.
Canton’s Nick Quattro got his cup of coffee in the Cape Cod Baseball League this summer – considered to be the top collegiate baseball leagues in the country. Quattro, who finished his junior year at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass., signed with the Bourne Braves at the end of July.
Quattro, who had an outstanding spring season with Endicott, pitched in three regular season games for the Braves and made one playoff appearance. All three appearances were out of the bullpen for the Braves, who advanced to the Cape Cod Baseball League semifinals.
“Playing on the Cape in the summer is a dream for every young ballplayer that grows up in New England,” Endicott baseball coach Bryan Haley said. “For Nick to make this dream a reality is a special moment in his life.”
Quattro, a 5-foot-6 righthander, pitched 4.2 innings for the Braves, striking out three and allowing two hits but one was a two-run home run in a 10-3 loss to Hyannis in the playoffs.
The past few months have been good for Quattro. He earned his opportunity to play in the Cape Cod league with a strong summer season with the Reading Bulldogs in the Boston Intercity League. He was 2-0 with a 0.62 ERA in 22.2 innings pitched – primarily out of the bullpen. He struck out 22, walked just six and allowed only two unearned runs.
He had an outstanding spring season with Endicott, a NCAA Division III program, earning All-New England honors. He was named the Commonwealth Coast Conference’s pitcher of the year. The American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and the New England Intercollegiate Baseball Association (NEIBA) named Quattro All-New England.
At Endicott, Quattro was 8-1 with three saves throwing 50.2 innings for the Gulls, coming out of the bullpen. He struck out 55 batters in held opposing hitters to a .131 average. He didn’t allowed an single run (earned or unearned) in 11 appearances from March 25 to April 19, earning seven wins in that stretch.
Quattro finished with an ERA of 1.42 and led all NCAA Division III hurlers with the fewest hits allowed per nine innings (3.91). His ERA of 1.42 matched the performance by Connor McLaughlin in 2012 and was just short of the team record (1.20) set by Matt Bishop in 2006.
Endicott went 26-17 and 12-4 in the Commonwealth Coast Conference. The Gulls won their second straight CCC title and qualified to play in the NCAA Division III New England regional tournament.
Quattro, who will be a senior this fall, is majoring in Business Administration. He graduated from Canton High in 2011 and played with the Simsbury American Legion baseball team in 2011. Quattro played in the Connecticut Collegiate Baseball League in 2013 and 2014 with the Simsbury Sabercats.
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