Baseball Recap: Goddard Rockets vs. Kirtland Central Broncos
It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Goddard had no problem doing just that on Friday. They never let the Kirtland Central Broncos onto the board and left with a 13-0 win. Considering Goddard has won nine matchups by more than five runs this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Tyler Conrad tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run over five innings pitched. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in six consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Goddard got a massive performance out of Andrew Baca, who scored a run while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Ross Stokes, who went 1-for-4 with a home run and two RBI.
On Kirtland Central's side, they saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jharrin Tyler, who went 2-for-3 with a stolen base.
Goddard has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 14 of their last 15 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 21-6 record this season. As for Kirtland Central, they now have a losing record at 12-13.
Goddard will have a chance to go back-to-back against Kirtland Central: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday.
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