Baseball Preview: Homestead Highlanders vs. Germantown Warhawks
Homestead is 0-4 against Germantown since May of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Homestead Highlanders will be staying on the road to face off against the Germantown Warhawks at 5:00 p.m.
Homestead will head into Wednesday's game out to bounce back: they won a close one the last time they played, but unfortunately they suffered a serious change of fortune on Wednesday. They lost 14-4 to Wisconsin Lutheran.
Homestead saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Will Van Laanen, who scored a run while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Lucas Wirth, who scored two runs while getting on base in all two of his plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Germantown entered their tilt with West Bend West with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They beat the Spartans on Saturday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 10-2. Germantown might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team's won nine matches by six runs or more this season.
Homestead's loss dropped their record down to 11-14. As for Germantown, they pushed their record up to 18-9 with that win, which was their 12th straight at home.
Homestead couldn't quite finish off Germantown in their previous meeting back in April and fell 5-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Germantown's Lucas Frank, who pitched 3.2 innings while giving up no earned runs or hits. Now that Homestead 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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