Baseball Preview: Jordan Beetdiggers vs. Brighton Bengals
Jordan is 10-0 against Brighton since May of 2016, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Jordan Beetdiggers will be playing at home against the Brighton Bengals at 4:00 p.m. Jordan is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.4 runs per game this season.
Things were looking good for Jordan after they put the first points on the board on Thursday, but unfortunately for them things went downhill from there. They fell just short of Olympus by a score of 4-2.
KADE CARTER was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he struck out 11 batters over six innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off five hits (and only one walk).
On the hitting side, Jordan saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was NOAH GATTI, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with an RBI.
Even though they lost, Jordan didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 13 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Brighton entered their tilt with West with 15 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 16. They beat the Panthers on Thursday by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 10-0. Considering Brighton has won 14 matches by more than seven runs this season, Thursday's blowout was nothing new.
Jordan's defeat dropped their record down to 11-8. As for Brighton, they pushed their record up to 17-2 with that win, which was their ninth straight on the road.
Everything went Jordan's way against Brighton when the teams last played back in April of 2019 as Jordan made off with an 8-1 victory. Does Jordan have another victory up their sleeve, or will Brighton turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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