Dylan Alt's walk-off RBI single gives Seaford baseball series-tying win over Wantagh
Dylan Alt (white helmet) gets hero’s reception from Seaford teammates on Friday. May 30, 2025. Credit: Neil Miller
After dropping the first game of the best-of-three Nassau Class A baseball championship series to Wantagh on Thursday, Seaford was hardly in an unfamiliar spot.
The Vikings had already overcome Game 1 losses to Clarke in the quarterfinals and Plainedge in the semifinals.
Coach Mike Milano had emphasized the need for heroes in these moments. In Game 2 Friday afternoon, there was no one better to wear the cape than junior second baseman Dylan Alt.
With runners on first and second and none out in a tie game in the bottom of the ninth inning, Alt laced a walk-off single up the middle, scoring Finn Curry to give Seaford a 3-2 series-tying win over Wantagh at Farmingdale State. Alt, who went 2-for-4, hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield in the seventh inning to tie it at 2.
“I’m just glad God gave me another chance to hit with a runner in scoring position because earlier in the game, I didn’t get it done,” Alt said of the walk-off. “I knew I had to save my team there.”
Said Milano: “It’s almost, to me, sometimes unfair for him to be in these big spots because he keeps doing it and doing it and doing it.”
Seaford (19-9), the No. 3 seed from Nassau Conference A-II, improved to 5-0 in elimination games.
“When you have 11 seniors, if you’ve been doing this as long as I have, you know that’s a special kind of team,” said Milano, in his 22nd season. “Double-digit seniors always are tough to beat in the playoffs.
“I don’t really know why they’re 5-0 in elimination games, other than I just have to go with the statistics on how old we are and how mature we are.”
Wantagh (22-4), the No. 1 seed from Nassau A-I, will be the home team in Sunday’s Game 3 at a to-be-determined time at Farmingdale State.
Seaford righthander Thomas Apollo struck out three, walked three (one intentional) and allowed four hits and two runs (one earned) in a six-inning start.
Lefthander Jordan Cassuto earned the win, allowing two hits in three scoreless innings.
“The fight or flight’s really kicking in,” Apollo said. “The true feeling — going home or staying on — it’s just kicking in.”
Wantagh lefthander Gavin Diegnan struck out five and allowed six hits in a 7 2⁄3-inning start before reaching the 125-pitch limit.
Wantagh took a 1-0 first-inning lead on Cole Spinelli’s two-out RBI single. It extended its lead to 2-0 in the third on Ryan Tullo’s two-out double that plated Ryan Conigliaro, who reached on a dropped third strike.
Seaford cut it to 2-1 in the fourth on Cassuto’s sacrifice fly.
“We love our seniors, we just want to keep playing with them,” Alt said. “So every elimination game, it’s just laser focus. Got to get the job done. Got to keep playing.”
Ben Dickson joined Newsday’s high school sports staff in 2023 after graduating from Maryland, where he covered several of the Terrapins' teams.
