Baseball Game Preview: Mapletown Plays at Home

By Team Reports May 3, 2024, 2:08am

Baseball Preview: Mapletown Maples vs. Carmichaels Mighty Mikes

Mapletown is 0-7 against Carmichaels since April of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Monday. The Mapletown Maples will look to defend their home field against the Carmichaels Mighty Mikes at 12:43 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

Mapletown is is headed into Monday's game looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their fourth straight game on Tuesday. They lost 17-2 to Fort Cherry.

Meanwhile, it was a hard-fought contest, but Carmichaels had to settle for a 5-4 loss against West Greene on Tuesday. That's two games in a row now that Carmichaels has lost by just one run.

Dominic Colarusso and Robbie Wilson-Jones did some serious damage despite the final result: Colarusso went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Wilson-Jones went 2-for-2 with a double and an RBI.

Mapletown's defeat dropped their record down to 2-10. As for Carmichaels, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 9-4.

Mapletown came up short against Carmichaels in their previous matchup back in May of 2023, falling 8-3. Can Mapletown avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.

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