Baseball Preview: Heritage Patriots vs. Liberty Lions
The Heritage Patriots will head out on the road to face off against the Liberty Lions at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Heritage has seven straight victories, Liberty has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Heritage can now show off seven landslide victories after their most recent game on Friday. They were the clear victor by an 8-1 margin over Franklin. Eight seems to be a good number for Heritage as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Logan Nelson made a splash no matter where he played. On the mound, he pitched four innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits. Nelson was also big at the plate, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-2.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Jett Guevara, who scored two runs while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was KC Karbowski, who went 1-for-2 with a triple, a run, and an RBI.
Meanwhile, Thursday just wasn't the day for Liberty's offense. They fell just short of Pittsburg by a score of 2-0 on Thursday. The shutout was out of character for Liberty seeing as the last time the team failed to score was back in February.
Heritage pushed their record up to 18-3-1 with that victory, which was their fifth straight on the road. As for Liberty, they now have a losing record at 10-11.
Heritage beat Liberty 10-5 when the teams last played on April 12th. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Liberty's Blaine Welte, who didn't allow a single earned run over four innings pitched. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Heritage still be able to contain Welte? There's only one way to find out.
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