Baseball Recap: Waltham Takes a Loss

Waltham blew Lexington out of the water the last time the pair played, but on Thursday Lexington got their revenge. The Hawks fell just short of the Minutemen by a score of 3-1. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.

Waltham saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Isaac Shatsoff, who went 1-for-2 with one double.

Waltham dropped their record down to 10-9 with the loss, which was their third straight on the road. Even worse, they were so close so many times: the defeats came by an average of only 1.67 runs. As for Lexington, with the win, they broke their three-game losing streak and moved their record to 9-11.

Looking ahead, Waltham will take on Newton North at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Lexington does not have any more games scheduled as of now.