Baseball Preview: Evergreen Park Mustangs vs. Blue Island Eisenhower Cardinals
Evergreen Park has enjoyed a four-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will square off against the Blue Island Eisenhower Cardinals at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Evergreen Park will be hoping to continue their four-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
In what's become a running theme this season, Evergreen Park gave their fans yet another huge victory on Tuesday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand Blue Island Eisenhower a 17-0 shutout. Evergreen Park's pitching crew has been rock solid lately; the team hasn't given up a run in their last three matches.
Rowan Smyth was a major factor no matter where he played. He didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit while striking out ten over four innings pitched. Smyth has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than six strikeouts in six consecutive pitching appearances. Smyth was also big at the plate, scoring a run while going 2-for-2.
In other batting news, Evergreen Park got a massive performance out of Jack Hughes, who went 2-for-3 with five RBI, three runs, and a double. Hughes has been hot recently, having posted three or more RBI the last three times he's played. Another player making a difference was Luke Medina, who scored three runs and stole two bases while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances.
Evergreen Park is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 19-6 record this season. As for Blue Island Eisenhower, their loss was their 11th straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-16.
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