Baseball Game Preview: Montrose Rams vs. Birch Run Panthers

The Montrose Rams will square off against the Birch Run Panthers at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Montrose has given up an average of 17 runs per game this season, but Thursday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.

Montrose is headed into Thursday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their fourth straight game on Monday. They came up short against Ovid-Elsie, falling 20-3. That's two games in a row now that the Rams have lost by exactly 17 runs.

Montrose saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Connor Gross, who went 1-for-3 with one stolen base, one run, and one double. That run marked the first that Gross has scored this season.

New Lothrop hit Birch Run with a four-run second inning on Monday, which goes a long way in explaining the final result. The Panthers fell just short of the Hornets by a score of 7-6.

Birch Run's loss dropped their record down to 2-5. As for Montrose, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.