Nashua Silver Knights infielder Jack McDermott leaps to field a throw as Westfield's Pat D'Amico steals second during Satruday night's game at Holman Stadium. (Telegraph photo by TOM KING)

NASHUA – The Nashua Silver Knights are still streaking.

The problem is, they’re moving in the wrong direction.

The local FCBL entry has followed up its recent five-game winning streak with a three game losing streak, falling 3-1 to the Westfield Starfires before an announced Holman Stadium crowd of 1,279.

And there’s a common theme in these losses: Nashua has scored only one run in each.

“I think Cam (general manager Cook) said it before: One run is not going to win in summer ball – any game,” a frustrated Silver Knights manager Kyle Jackson said after his team managed just four hits. “We’ll just keep battling, see if we can get more than one run.”

It certainly seemed like they would with two hits, including a Kyle Wolff RBI single, in the first that tied the game 1-1 as Westfield got a run in the top of the first off Knights starter Brock Pare on Pat D’Amico’s RBI single.

“We had two hits in the first and I thought it was the start of some good momentum and then their pitcher (Ryan Donahue) kept them off-balance. We hit the ball hard right at people. … Things just aren’t falling for us right now.”

The crack of the bat got loud a few times for Nashua, the ball flying out to deep center a few times – but each time Westfield’s speedy Ryan Lavelle ran it down.

Frustrating.

“Their center fielder caught a lot of balls for them tonight,” Jackson said. “They play shallow, and he got every single one. They were hit good, but not on a line, up in the air.

At times the Knights mirrored the sudden summer temps, their at-bats quick and at times sluggish – call it the One Run Snooze. But things came alive when the speedy Carmelo Musacchia beat out a one-out grounder for an infield hit. Wolff singled, and the crowd could sense a rally.

Then Musacchia took off for third but was called out on a very close play. He appeared safe, and Jackson for the second straight night argued,but after the game said he saw the replay on line in the dugout and that Musacchia was out.

“In the eighth inning, a little aggressive, but you’re trying to force things to happen,” Jackson said. “Sometimes when you’re pressing … He had the green light. And he knows you have to be 100 percent sure you’re going to get it.

I’ve trusted them. …”

And with Musacchia’s speed, why not? Meanwhile, Nashua’s pitching was not a problem, as Pare and four relievers combined for 14 strikeouts. But on a two-strike pitch with the bases loaded in the fourth, Pare overthrow a pitch and it skipped past catcher Greg Bozzo for the go-ahead run, 2-1. The run was unearned as an error by shortstop Mussachia opened the frame. Westfield scored an insurance run on Jackson Hornung’s sac fly to left in the seventh.

Now the Knights are hoping that former Pinkerton Academy ace Liam Doyle can be a stopper today vs. the Norwich Sea Unicorns as the homestand continues at 3 p.m.

But the last time Norwich was in town, four days ago, the Knights managed just — you guessed it – one run.

It’s a lonely number.