Baseball Preview: Frontier Titans vs. Liberty Patriots
Frontier and Liberty are an even 5-5 against one another since May of 2021, but likely not for long. The Frontier Titans will be playing at home against the Liberty Patriots at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Frontier: 3, Liberty: 2.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Last Thursday, Frontier came up short against Stockdale and fell 6-1. Frontier has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Frontier saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Brady Durkan, who went 1-for-2 with a double.
Meanwhile, Liberty had already won seven in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.7 runs), and they went ahead and made it eight on Thursday. They never let the Golden Hawks onto the board and left with a 5-0 victory.
Chance Gerecke made a big impact no matter where he played. He didn't allow a single earned run over seven innings pitched. Gerecke was also big at the plate, scoring a run while going 1-for-2.
In other batting news, Liberty let Brock Thompson and Tryce Spainhoward loose on the outfield. Thompson scored a run and stole a base while going 3-for-3, while Spainhoward scored two runs while going 2-for-3. Thompson is on a roll when it comes to stolen bases, as he's now stolen at least one in the last three games he's played.
Frontier's loss dropped their record down to 17-7. As for Liberty, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 games, which provided a nice bump to their 20-4 record this season.
Frontier skirted past Liberty 6-4 in their previous meeting on April 2nd. Does Frontier have another victory up their sleeve, or will Liberty turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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