Baseball Game Preview: Somerset Briar Jumpers vs. Wayne County Cardinals

The Somerset Briar Jumpers will take on the Wayne County Cardinals at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Neither Somerset nor Wayne County posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.

Somerset is headed into Tuesday's game looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their fourth straight game on Monday. They came up short against Corbin, falling 7-1. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.

Kole Grundy

Home Runs

05/12/25 @ Corbin	1
04/10/25 vs Glasgow	1
03/18/25 vs Knox Central	1

Somerset saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kole Grundy, who went 2-for-3 with one home run. The Briar Jumpers are 2-1 when Grundy posts one or more home runs, but 9-17 otherwise.

Meanwhile, after a string of five wins, Wayne County's good fortune finally ran out on Saturday. They fell 5-2 to Boyle County.

Somerset's loss dropped their record down to 11-18. As for Wayne County, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-10.