Baseball Preview: Vintage Crushers vs. Casa Grande Gauchos
Vintage and Casa Grande are an even 5-5 against one another since May of 2019, but likely not for long. The Vintage Crushers have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Casa Grande Gauchos at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. Vintage will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
Last Tuesday, Vintage was able to grind out a solid win over American Canyon, taking the game 7-2.
Charlie Alcayaga tossed a big game, tossing five innings while giving up just two earned runs off five hits.
On the hitting side, Ian Fernandez was incredible, going 2-for-3 with a home run and two runs. Another player making a difference was Kai Gulliksen, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Casa Grande got themselves on the board against Petaluma on Tuesday, but Petaluma never followed suit. They skirted past the Trojans 2-0. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Casa Grande.
The result came thanks to Brady Laubscher's shutout, as he gave up just four hits and racked up nine Ks. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in seven consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Casa Grande saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Luke Bell, who went 2-for-3 with a double.
Vintage is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 17 games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-10 record this season. As for Casa Grande, their victory bumped their record up to 18-7.
Vintage beat Casa Grande 4-1 in their previous meeting on Thursday. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Casa Grande's Danny Mercado, who struck out seven batters over seven innings while giving up three earned (and one unearned) runs off seven hits (and not a single walk). Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Vintage still be able to contain Mercado? There's only one way to find out.
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