Baseball Preview: Kankakee Kays vs. Peotone Blue Devils
The Kankakee Kays will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Peotone Blue Devils at 4:30 p.m. Neither Kankakee nor Peotone posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
Kankakee is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Bradley-Bourbonnais just ended the team's six-game winning streak on Thursday. They fell just short of the Boilermakers by a score of 3-2.
Trey Blanchette was cooking despite his team's loss, going 2-for-3 with two doubles and an RBI.
Even though they lost, Kankakee didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 12 strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Bradley-Bourbonnais only tossed seven.
Meanwhile, Peotone was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their fifth straight loss. They took a 5-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of Wilmington.
Kankakee's defeat ended a four-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 15-9-1. As for Peotone, their loss dropped their record down to 4-15.
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