Preview: Mansfield Summit Jaguars vs. Midlothian Heritage Jaguars
After two games on the road, Mansfield Summit is heading back home. They will take on the Midlothian Heritage Jaguars at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Mansfield Summit hasn't scored more than two runs for nine games straight, a trend the squad is eager to reverse.
Last Tuesday, Mansfield Summit didn't have quite enough to beat Centennial and fell 2-1.
Mansfield Summit saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Eric Wagner, who went 1-for-3 with an RBI.
Meanwhile, Midlothian Heritage had already won eight in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 6.1 runs), and they went ahead and made it nine on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past the Panthers 4-3. Four seems to be a good number for Midlothian Heritage as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Mansfield Summit's loss dropped their record down to 2-17-2. As for Midlothian Heritage, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 12 matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 11-9-1 record this season.
Mansfield Summit came out on top in a nail-biter against Midlothian Heritage when the teams last played back in March of 2023, sneaking past 2-1. One of the biggest obstacles trying to stand in the way of that victory was Midlothian Heritage's Rylan Figueroa, who didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out seven over six innings pitched. Now that he won't be playing on Tuesday, will it be that much easier for Mansfield Summit to walk away with another win? There's only one way to find out.
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