Baseball Preview: Columbia Roughnecks vs. Stafford Spartans
Columbia is 8-2 against Stafford since May of 2015, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Friday. The Columbia Roughnecks will be playing in front of their home fans against the Stafford Spartans at 7:00 p.m. Neither of those teams managed to put together many runs in their previous contests, so the offenses might be a little more motivated than usual.
Columbia will face Stafford after dropping another heartbreaker against Brazosport on Tuesday, which marked the second time in a row the team's come within 2.1 2.1 runs of beating them. Columbia fell just short of Brazosport by a score of 2-1. Columbia has struggled against Brazosport recently, as their contest on Tuesday was their fourth consecutive lost matchup.
Hayden Coker made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-2.
Meanwhile, Stafford fought the good fight in their extra-innings match against Iowa Colony on Tuesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Pioneers by a score of 3-2. Stafford has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Stafford saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Adrian Ponce, who went 1-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
Columbia's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 20-8-1. As for Stafford, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-9-2.
Columbia beat Stafford 8-5 in their previous meeting back in March. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was Stafford's Zachary Brown, who pitched 4.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Columbia still be able to contain Brown? There's only one way to find out.
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