Baseball Preview: Western Wayne Wildcats vs. Lakeland Chiefs
The Western Wayne Wildcats will stay at home for another game and welcome the Lakeland Chiefs at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Western Wayne's hitters might be in the hot seat on Saturday considering what happened against Honesdale on Monday. They took a 4-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Hornets.
Western Wayne saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ethan Lamberton, who went 1-for-3 with a double.
Lakeland lost 15-2 to Old Forge on Wednesday. Lakeland has not had much luck with Old Forge recently, as the team's come up short the last five times they've met.
Dylan Patuk made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run while going 2-for-2.
Western Wayne's defeat dropped their record down to 7-12. As for Lakeland, their loss dropped their record down to 4-12.
Western Wayne couldn't quite finish off Lakeland when the teams last played back in April and fell 6-4. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Lakeland's Tyler Uram, who struck out seven batters over 6.2 innings while giving up three earned (and one unearned) runs off seven hits. Now that Western Wayne knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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