Baseball Preview: New Brunswick Zebra vs. Plainfield Cardinals
The New Brunswick Zebra will head out on the road to square off against the Plainfield Cardinals at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Neither New Brunswick nor Plainfield posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.
New Brunswick is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Carteret just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Thursday. They lost 8-1 to the Ramblers. The defeat continues a trend for New Brunswick in their matchups with Carteret: they've now lost eight in a row.
Meanwhile, Plainfield was not able to break out of their rough patch on Monday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They took a 4-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of Dunellen. The result shouldn't come as a shock considering that's the fewest runs Plainfield has scored all season.
New Brunswick's defeat dropped their record down to 7-7. As for Plainfield, their loss dropped their record down to 3-10.
New Brunswick might still be hurting after the 11-4 defeat they got from Plainfield in their previous meeting back in April of 2023. Can New Brunswick avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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