WHITPAIN — When Plymouth dropped 18 runs on Ambler Tuesday, more than a few jaws dropped.

After all, the Angels had only scored in double digits once this year prior to Tuesday’s deluge, and the team’s much better suited to a pitchers’ duel than it is a slugfest.

What could they do for an encore?

The Angels provided the answer, in spades, at Montgomery County Community College Thursday night.

Scoring in their first five at-bats and batting around thrice, the Angels bested Ambler, 22-1, then hurriedly left for their second game of the evening, as the nightcap to a here-then-there doubleheader at Nor-Gwyn.

“Honestly, it’s hard to explain,” said outfielder Nick Bucha, who scored five times in the multi-run ruckus. “Sometimes you just come out and have a feeling.

“Forty runs in two games, hopefully we can carry this momentum into the rest of the season.”

“It seems like we carried over whatever we started on Tuesday,” added player/co-manager Chris Delaney. “People are putting the ball in play, one through nine in the lineup, and our confidence is up.”

Plymouth collected 18 hits — 17 singles — and it got plenty of help from the Rebels, who committed eight errors and issued nine walks.

The assault on Ambler starter Drew Frankenfield began in the first when an error, a single and a walk loaded the bases. Singles by Andrew Beshenich and Mike Fazio chased home two runs, a sacrifice fly by Mike Martello scored another.

After another unearned run in the second, the Angels sent nine men to the plate in the third, scoring six times behind Fazio’s two-run double and two-run singles by Bucha and Mike Caracappa.

Three errors and four walks paved the way for a seven-run fourth.

Get the picture?

While the Angels offense was turning home plate into a Reading terminal turnstile at rush hour, left-hander Eric Spring kept Ambler strapped, allowing just a run and five hits over five innings.

“We gave him as much (support) as we could,” Delaney said, “but Eric threw the ball real well.

“We’ve been able to get baserunners this year, our problem has been finishing when they get on. In the last two games we’ve been able to get those hits.”

Before dashing off to Nor-Gwyn, Bucha said Plymouth’s second season since starting from scratch under the leadership of Beshenich and Delaney in the Perkiomen Valley Twilight League has been infinitely better than the rookie campaign.

“Everybody’s here because they want to be here,” Bucha said. “Last year we had a bunch of guys that came in cold.

“This year, the guys got a chance to work at it in the off-season, and we added some guys who really know how to play. Coming into this year, we knew we weren’t in over our heads. We knew we could hang.”

Any more 40-runs-in-two-games explosions are unlikely, but maybe perhaps the Angels have another surprise or two left.