Baseball Preview: Iroquois Braves vs. Maplewood Tigers
Iroquois is 2-8 against Maplewood since May of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Wednesday. The Iroquois Braves will head out on the road to challenge the Maplewood Tigers at 4:30 p.m. Iroquois will be strutting in after a victory while Maplewood will be coming in after a loss.
Iroquois will bounce into Wednesday's game after beating Union City, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Iroquois never let Union City onto the board and left with a 1-0 win on Monday.
Not much got past Reilly Brown, who gave up just two hits and racked up 11 Ks to keep Union City off the board. Brown has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't pitched less than seven innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Iroquois saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hunter Alderson, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Maplewood lost 12-2 to Saegertown on Monday. Maplewood has not had much luck with Saegertown recently, as the team's come up short the last eight times they've met.
Iroquois has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 5-10 record this season. As for Maplewood, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 9-7.
Iroquois might still be hurting after the 16-1 loss they got from Maplewood when the teams last played back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Maplewood's Kyle Jordan, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out seven over four innings pitched. Now that Iroquois knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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