PINETOWN — In a sport where analytics reigns supreme, chemistry is baseball’s immeasurable statistic. Like pairing a good wine with a unique entrée, identifying which players mesh with others across nine different positions is something that takes a great deal of time and effort.

Across the whole baseball spectrum — recreation, travel ball, legion, middle school and high school — a group of players from Bath have gone virtually unchallenged in Junior Babe Ruth Baseball over the last four years.

Last week, those athletes, who play for team Carolina Car Connection, locked up their fourth-consecutive Washington Junior Babe Ruth League regular season championship, closing the season with an 11-1 record.

“They’ve played together a very long time, a lot of travel ball,” said coach Kevin Cutler, who has been with the team since the beginning. “They bond well and everybody knows their role. Everyone has played in the same position all four years, whether it’s my kid (Brantley Cutler) in centerfield, Dustin (Boseman) in right or Zach (Woolard) on the mound or at first. If you do that for three or four years, you do it in travel ball and legion ball, you get good at it.”

Coastal Car Connection’s core group of Bath players has pieced together a remarkable 45-3 record since 2012, collecting mercy-rule victories, home runs and titles. But for the first time, the team now has something else to play for, a tournament championship, a postseason exhibition that’s customarily been reserved only for Washington JBR teams. Now, the entire county has the opportunity to win the single-elimination tournament.

On Tuesday, Coastal Car Connection, the No. 1 seed earning the team a bye in the quarterfinals, took on neighboring Vidant Medical of Belhaven, the No. 4 seed in the seven-team table.

And in the team’s first postseason appearance, Bath posted seven runs in the first inning, powered by hits from Brantley Cutler, Landon Ormond, Zach Griffin and Satoru Shinohara. The team never looked back.

Griffin, the starter, tossed three innings, allowing two runs (none earned) on six hits with five strikeouts. Cutler and Woolard closed out the game strong, each pitching an inning and allowing just one hit apiece.

“We hit the ball well early,” coach Cutler said. “We played this team three times and this is kind of our brother team. A lot of these kids played together on the Northside (jayvee) team that went 13-1 this year, so there’s talent on both ends. We have a very talented group of young men. We hit the ball well, pitched the ball well, played defense well and didn’t have many errors.”

In the second inning, two errors and hits from Boyd, Braedon Burbage, Griffin and Tanner Alligood resulted in another four runs, ultimately putting the game out of reach. Bath eventually won the game by activating the 10-run mercy rule in five innings, a 16-2 victory.

Ormond finished the day 2-for-4 with three RBIs, while Griffin recorded three hits and two RBIs.

Coastal Car Connection’s only loss this season came to PCS Phosphate, the No. 2 seed in the tournament that beat On The Waterfront in the quarterfinals on Monday. Bath went on to beat the Washington-based team in the final week of the season, 8-1. A championship rematch between the two teams seems likely if PCS can knock off the No. 3-seeded Choco Dry Cleaners in the semi-finals.

Cutler was asked about the possibility of a rematch between the two teams in the championship after Tuesday’s win over Vidant Medical.

“The only thing I’ll say is that people don’t remember who won the most. They just remember who won last,” he said.

The Washington JBR championship will take place tomorrow at the Susiegray McConnell Complex. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.