Baseball Preview: St. Albans Red Dragons vs. Winfield Generals
St. Albans is on a four-game streak of home wins, while Winfield is on a nine-game streak of away wins (dating back to last season): one of those streaks is about to end. The St. Albans Red Dragons will take on the Winfield Generals at 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (St. Albans: 3, Winfield: 1.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
St. Albans is hoping to deliver their fans another blowout on Saturday, just like they did against Oak Hill (and have done all season long). St. Albans' pitcher stepped up to hand Oak Hill a 7-0 shutout on Friday. Seven seems to be a good number for St. Albans as the squad scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Beau Kelley was incredible, scoring two runs and stealing three bases while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. Ayden Youngblood was another key contributor, scoring two runs while going 1-for-4.
Meanwhile, Winfield was not the first on the board last Tuesday, but they got there more often. They had just enough and edged Wayne out 5-4. That's two games straight that Winfield has won by just one run.
St. Albans has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 13-4 record this season. As for Winfield, their win bumped their record up to 13-0.
Everything went St. Albans' way against Winfield in their previous matchup back in April of 2016 as St. Albans made off with a 9-3 victory. Will St. Albans repeat their success, or does Winfield have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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