Baseball Recap: Silver Creek Raptors vs. Longmont Trojans
Silver Creek put the finishing touches on their fifth blowout victory of the season on Monday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Longmont Trojans a 10-0 shutout. This was payback for Silver Creek, who suffered an 8-6 defeat the last time these two teams met.
Nolan Gaccetta tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only two hits while striking out six over six innings pitched. He has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in six consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Silver Creek got a massive performance out of Isaac Sandberg, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. The team also got some help courtesy of Nate Spiegel, who went 3-for-4 with four RBI and a double.
Silver Creek has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 11-5 record this season. As for Longmont, they are on a four-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 9-9.
Silver Creek will have a chance to go back-to-back against Longmont: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
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