Baseball Recap: Cleveland's Win on Thursday Extends Winning Streak to Six

Cleveland came tearing into Thursday's game with five straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 5.2 runs), and they left with even more momentum. They came out on top against the McDaniel Mountain Lions by a score of 4-1. That's the third time they've managed to beat them this season, with their most recent win being a 6-4 victory on Wednesday.

Arlo Copony made a splash while hitting and pitching. On the mound, he struck out 12 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off four hits (and only one walk). Cleveland is 3-1 when Copony allows one or fewer earned runs, but 3-7 otherwise. Copony was also big at the plate, going 2-for-3 with two RBI and one double. Those two RBI gave him a new career-high.

Copony wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was James Ho, who went 2-for-4 with two runs and one stolen base. Ho is becoming a predictor of Cleveland's success: when he posts at least two runs the team is undefeated (and 3-8 when he doesn't). Ezra Oster was another, going 1-for-2 with one stolen base and one run.

Cleveland pushed their record up to 6-8 with the win, which was their third straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 10.3 runs over those games. As for McDaniel, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 8-6.

Cleveland will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Mountain Lions: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 5:00 p.m. on Friday.