Baseball Preview: Mission Bay Buccaneers vs. Scripps Ranch Falcons
The Mission Bay Buccaneers will be playing in front of their home fans against the Scripps Ranch Falcons at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. 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.
Last Friday, Mission Bay didn't have quite enough to beat La Jolla and fell 3-2. Mission Bay has not had much luck with La Jolla recently, as the team's come up short the last two times they've met.
Harold Gildehaus was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits over five innings pitched. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Mission Bay saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kaden Jones, who went 1-for-3 with a double and an RBI.
Meanwhile, while Scripps Ranch put up some runs on Friday, the same can't be said for Mira Mesa. Scripps Ranch had just enough and edged Mira Mesa out 2-0. Two seems to be a good number for Scripps Ranch as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Not much got past Jordan Green, who gave up just six hits and racked up six Ks to keep Mira Mesa off the board.
Mission Bay's loss dropped their record down to 12-7. As for Scripps Ranch, their victory ended a six-game drought on the road and puts them at 6-13.
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