Baseball Preview: Evergreen Park Mustangs vs. Lake View Wildcats
The Evergreen Park Mustangs will be playing at home against the Lake View Wildcats at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. Evergreen Park will be looking to keep their six-game home win streak alive.
Last Thursday, Evergreen Park had just enough and edged Bremen out 3-1.
Grady Elwood spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered only one earned run on four hits and racked up 12 Ks. Those 12 strikeouts set a new season-high mark for him.
At the plate, Yarim Garcia was excellent, scoring a run and stealing two bases while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Lake View unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Thursday. They lost 9-2 to Kennedy. Lake View was red-hot at the plate headed into the contest (they scored no less than ten runs in the four games prior) but Kennedy's pitchers proved too tough.
Lake View saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Nathan Herrera, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with three stolen bases. Tony Garcia was another key contributor, going 2-for-4 with two stolen bases.
Evergreen Park has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a nice bump to their 16-6 record this season. As for Lake View, their loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 10-10.
Both both teams just can't seem to miss. Evergreen Park has been making plenty of contact this season, having averaged 9.1 hits per game. However, it's not like Lake View struggles in that department as they've been averaging only 4.7. With both teams so capable at the plate, fans should be ready for an impressive hitting performance. Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other baseball content.
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