MILTON — Braintree utilized hot bats and clean pitching and fielding to grab a 16-0 Bay State Conference baseball victory over Milton in a game stopped after five innings.

This was the first matchup of the year between Milton and Braintree, and the lopsided score was a surprise considering Milton is coming off a Division 2 state title and entered the game with a 4-2 record. Wamps head coach Bill O’Connell said his team was simply ready to go and it was their time to shine.

“It was one of our days,” O’Connell said. “Everything was clicking for us, we were hitting the ball the other way, we hit with two strikes, we executed some first and third’s and we threw a lot of strikes. I think today was just our day.”

Braintree’s offense was rolling from the jump. The Wamps grinded out some baserunners early in the inning, which allowed Sam Garrity to smack a double in the gap that scored two. The Braintree tacked on two more from some strong baserunning and Wildcat mistakes.

After starting pitcher Max DeRoche overcame back-to-back walks to produce a scoreless inning, Braintree’s bats stayed potent. An RBI single from Sean Canavan preceded an RBI triple from Sean O’Rourke. This was followed by a successful safety squeeze from Jake Joyce, which put the Wamps up by seven.

The third inning saw neither team put a run on the board, but Braintree got right back to business in the top of the fourth. Hayden Regan led off with a single and Peter Brooks got plunked with a pitch in the next at bat. Both would advance on a wild pitch and O’Rourke would smack a single that scored both to make it 9-0. This would chase Leo Lyons from the game.

“We are a scary team,” O’Rourke said. “We don’t give up, we stay focused, stay hard and stay grinding. We don’t let up.”

The pitching change didn’t signify the end of the scoring, however. O’Rourke would score after a successful delayed steal and Max King would drive in Sam Garrity to make it 11-0 Braintree.

The Wamps would put up five more runs in the fifth inning, with O’Rourke notching his fifth and sixth RBI. DeRoche would then shut the door in the bottom of the inning, clinching the three-hit shutout.

“I think I did pretty good, but it was a whole team thing,” DeRoche said. “Everyone was hitting, pitching was good, fielding was good. It was the whole thing.”

O’Rourke said his team was extremely motivated, given the quality opponent, and that helped ensure that they would not take their foot off the gas at any point.

“Everyone was taking it seriously, like a championship game,” O’Rourke said. “We were just ready to go, pumped up. I’m just happy for the guys.”

Braintree’s Max DeRoche prepares to deliver a pitch to a Milton batter on Wednesday. (Chris Christo/Boston Herald)