Baseball Game Preview: Mendon on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 5, 2024, 3:15am

Baseball Preview: Mendon Vikings vs. Batavia Blue Devils

Mendon and Batavia are an even 3-3 against one another since May of 2018, but likely not for long. The Mendon Vikings will look to defend their home field on Monday against the Batavia Blue Devils at 5:00 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

Mendon is headed into the game fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They fell just short of Honeoye Falls-Lima by a score of 16-15 on Wednesday. Mendon has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.

Batavia might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 3-2 to Notre Dame, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior.

Batavia saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Cole Grazioplene, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-4.

Mendon's loss dropped their record down to 4-6. As for Batavia, their defeat dropped their record down to 7-10.

Mendon came out on top in a nail-biter against Batavia in their previous meeting back in May of 2023, sneaking past 3-2. Will Mendon repeat their success, or does Batavia have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.

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