Baseball Game Preview: Molalla Indians vs. Gladstone Gladiators

Indians

Runs

04/28/25 @ Gladstone	2
04/24/25 @ Madras	7
04/23/25 vs Madras	10
04/21/25 vs Crook County	7
04/17/25 @ Crook County	17
+ 12 more games

For the second straight game, Molalla will face off against Gladstone. The Indians will welcome the Gladiators at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Molalla is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.4 runs per game this season.

Molalla easily dispatched Madras on Thursday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Indians fell just short of Gladstone by a score of 4-2 on Monday. The Indians' defeat signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.

Molalla saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Nyxon Hopping, who went 2-for-3 with one run.

Gladstone has been performing well recently as they've won six of their last eight contests. That's provided a nice bump to their 7-7 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.8 runs on average over those games. As for Molalla, their loss dropped their record down to 13-4.