Baseball Preview: Whitmer Panthers vs. Ross Little Giants
The Whitmer Panthers will head out on the road to challenge the Ross Little Giants at 5:00 p.m. on Friday. Whitmer is looking to tack on another W to their seven-game streak on the road.
Whitmer's hitters might be in the hot seat on Friday considering what happened against St. Francis de Sales on Thursday. They suffered a rough 13-0 defeat at the hands of the Knights.
Meanwhile, Ross was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their eighth straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a tough 8-1 walloping at the hands of Bowling Green.
Ross saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Cameron Joseph, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Even though they lost, Ross didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with eight strikeouts. This was only their ninth loss (out of ten games) when they post five or more strikeouts.
Whitmer's defeat dropped their record down to 10-2. As for Ross, their loss dropped their record down to 1-13.
Whitmer couldn't quite finish off Ross in their previous meeting back in May of 2023 and fell 4-2. Thankfully for Whitmer, Alejandro Melchor (who struck out six batters over 6.2 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off seven hits) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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