Bremer shuts down Blue Crabs as Lancaster ends five-game skid

Noah Bremer carved through Southern Maryland with six efficient innings Wednesday night, allowing three hits and one walk while striking out nine as Lancaster beat the Blue Crabs 2-0 and snapped a five-game skid. Nathan Martorella supplied the only offense Lancaster needed with a leadoff home run in the fifth, a solo shot that stood until the final out.

The right-hander picked up his 25th career win with the Stormers, moved past manager Ross Peeples for third on Lancaster’s career strikeout list and closed to within five strikeouts of Nile Ball for second. After his first strikeout, Bremer grabbed the ball and tossed it toward Peeples in the dugout.

Southern Maryland starter Ian Kahaloa kept pace through four innings, but Lancaster finally broke through when Martorella led off the fifth with his homer. That was enough because Bremer never let the Blue Crabs build a sustained threat, and the Stormers played from in front the rest of the way. Lancaster entered the night at 36-32 against a Southern Maryland club sitting at 45-23, and the shutout gave the Stormers a much cleaner result after allowing 53 runs over the previous five games.

Phil Diehl finished the job behind Bremer. He escaped an eighth-inning jam and then worked a 1-2-3 ninth for the save, turning a narrow lead into Lancaster’s cleanest win in days. Bremer returned for his third season in 2026 after striking out 11 earlier in the year, the high mark by a Stormers pitcher at that point, and after throwing six shutout innings in a 2024 win that helped Lancaster tie the franchise record with 12 straight victories.