Baseball Game Preview: Plainfield Central Wildcats vs. Joliet Central Steelmen

For the second straight game, Plainfield Central will face off against Joliet Central. The Wildcats will welcome the Steelmen at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Plainfield Central has four straight wins, Joliet Central has 19 straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Plainfield Central's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They came out on top against Joliet Central by a score of 4-0.

For Joliet Central's part, they saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Andrew Nixon, who went 1-for-2 with one stolen base.

Plainfield Central pushed their record up to 22-4 with the victory, which was their seventh straight on the road. The road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.9 runs on average over those games. As for Joliet Central, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-22.