Baseball Preview: Fort Osage Indians vs. Truman Patriots
Fort Osage has been on the road for three straight, but on Wednesday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Truman Patriots at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Fort Osage will be hoping to continue their four-game streak of scoring more runs each game than the last.
On Tuesday, Fort Osage came up short against Grain Valley and fell 14-10. Fort Osage has not had much luck with Grain Valley recently, as the team's come up short the last six times they've met.
Zachary Fritzemeyer and Tucker Krevitz stepped up to the plate in a big way. Fritzemeyer scored a run while going 2-for-3, while Krevitz scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Jocksiel Dominguez, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, Truman had to endure a three-game losing streak, but that streak is no more. They narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Central 6-4.
Truman also got a great performance from Stuart Grotenhuis as he tossed 4.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off four hits. Grotenhuis has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't given up more than one walk in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Anthony Manfredi and Nicholas Dawson did most of the damage at the plate: Manfredi scored two runs and stole three bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances, while Dawson scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was Nomar Garcia, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2.
Fort Osage's loss dropped their record down to 10-14-1. As for Truman, their victory ended a three-game drought on the road and puts them at 16-13.
Fort Osage suffered a grim 10-0 defeat to Truman in their previous meeting two weeks ago. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Truman's Kyle Durham, who didn't allow a single earned run over five innings pitched. Now that Fort Osage knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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