Baseball Preview: Santaluces Chiefs vs. Wellington Wolverines
Santaluces has been on the road for six straight, but on Tuesday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Wellington Wolverines at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
While Santaluces has not struggled against Park Vista recently, they managed to flip the script on Friday. Santaluces came out on top in a nail-biter against Park Vista and snuck past 4-2.
Samir Hurtado made a splash no matter where he played. He looked comfortable on the mound, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit over four innings pitched. Hurtado was also big at the plate, going 1-for-3 with a triple and a run.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Daniel Vargas, who scored a run and stole two bases.
Meanwhile, Wellington had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 2.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three on Thursday. They skirted past the Bulldogs 7-6.
Wellington let Lucas Bratten and Brett Hobbs loose on the outfield. Bratten scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3, while Hobbs scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Santaluces is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a massive bump to their 8-9 record this season. As for Wellington, their win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 9-9.
Santaluces came up short against Wellington in their previous meeting back in February, falling 3-0. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Bratten, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit over five innings pitched. Now that Santaluces knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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