Baseball Preview: Western Reserve Roughriders vs. New London Wildcats
The Western Reserve Roughriders will play host again on Tuesday to welcome the New London Wildcats, where first pitch is scheduled 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'.
Western Reserve is headed into the match fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 19-13 walloping at the hands of Norwalk on Saturday. Western Reserve has not had much luck with Norwalk recently, as the team's come up short the last five times they've met.
Austin Harmeling stepped up to lead a balanced group of hitters: he scored two runs while getting on base in all six of his plate appearances. Another player making a difference was Austin Kolb, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-4.
Even though they lost, Western Reserve didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with five strikeouts. This was only their tenth loss (out of 12 games) when they post five or more strikeouts.
Meanwhile, sadly, New London is still looking for their first win of the season after 11 matchups. They took a 9-5 hit to the loss column at the hands of Wellington on Saturday.
New London saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Oliver Harrison, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Western Reserve's loss dropped their record down to 2-13. As for New London, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-11.
Everything went Western Reserve's way against New London in their previous meeting back in May of 2023 as Western Reserve made off with a 22-4 victory. Does Western Reserve have another victory up their sleeve, or will New London turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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