Baseball Preview: Gateway Panthers vs. Celebration Storm
Gateway is 1-9 against Celebration since April of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Gateway Panthers will be playing at home against the Celebration Storm at 6:00 p.m.
Things were looking good for Gateway after they put the first points on the board on Thursday, but unfortunately for them things went downhill from there. They might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 12-2 to Heritage, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior. Gateway has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Gateway saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kendel Weisberg, who went 2-for-2 with an RBI. Weisberg has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two hits in four consecutive pitching appearances.
Meanwhile, Celebration was able to grind out a solid win over Tohopekaliga on Monday, taking the game 9-5. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Celebration.
Santiago Gonzalez tossed a big game, pitching six innings while giving up three earned (and two unearned) runs off six hits.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on David Sevilla, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 3-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Alejandro Moreno, who scored a run and stole a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Gateway's loss dropped their record down to 6-13. As for Celebration, the victory got them back to even at 10-10-1.
Gateway might still be hurting after the 11-1 defeat they got from Celebration when the teams last played back in March. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Celebration's Sebastian Rivera, who didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out nine over five innings pitched. Now that Gateway knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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