Baseball Game Preview: Riverheads Gladiators vs. Fort Defiance Indians

By Team Reports May 18, 2025, 12:20am

Baseball Preview: Riverheads Gladiators vs. Fort Defiance Indians

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Previous Games

04/25/25 - Away9-5 W
05/03/24 - Home8-2 W
04/09/24 - Away15-4 W
05/05/23 - Home3-5 L
04/11/23 - Away12-1 W
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Riverheads is 7-2 against Fort Defiance since May of 2021 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Tuesday. The Gladiators will look to defend their home field against the Indians at 5:00 p.m. Keep an eye on the score for this one: the two teams posted some lofty run totals in their previous games.

Riverheads' pitching crew heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. Everything went their way against Buffalo Gap as they made off with a 10-0 victory. The result was nothing new for the Gladiators, who have now won seven contests by ten runs or more so far this season.

Meanwhile, Fort Defiance entered their tilt with Wilson Memorial on Saturday with four consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with five. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past the Green Hornets 10-8.

The victory made it two in a row for Riverheads and bumps their season record up to 11-4. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered a grand total of 1 runs in those games. As for Fort Defiance, their victory bumped their record up to 10-7.

Riverheads beat Fort Defiance 9-5 in their previous meeting back in April. Do the Gladiators have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Indians turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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