Baseball Game Preview: Venice Indians vs. IMG Academy Gray Ascenders

The Venice Indians will challenge the IMG Academy Gray Ascenders at 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Venice is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 6.1 runs per game this season.

Venice heads in on the heels of a playoff match last Saturday. They lost 10-3 to Alonso. The pitching woes were uncharacteristic for the Indians, who until this contest were averaging 1.68 runs allowed.

Jonathan Mauro made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and went a perfect 2-for-2 with two doubles and two RBI.

Meanwhile, IMG Academy Gray had already won six in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 7.8 runs) and they went ahead and made it seven on Monday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past IMG Academy Silver 6-4. That's two games straight that IMG Academy Gray has won by exactly two runs.

IMG Academy Gray pushed their record up to 21-9 with the win, which was their eighth straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 8.6 runs over those games. As for Venice, their loss ended an 18-game streak of away wins dating back to last season and brought them to 29-5.