Baseball Recap: American Heritage comes up short despite Lucas Ramirez's strong performance

By Team Reports May 18, 2024, 1:40pm

Baseball Recap: American Heritage Patriots vs. Jesuit Tigers

It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact American Heritage can now relate to. They took a 5-2 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Jesuit Tigers on Saturday. American Heritage's defeat signaled the end of their seven-game winning streak.

Lucas Ramirez made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run while going 2-for-3.

On Jesuit's side, McCall Biemiller tossed a big game, striking out seven batters over 4.1 innings while giving up just one earned run off five hits. Biemiller has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in four consecutive pitching appearances.

On the hitting side, DJ Pirela was excellent, scoring a run while going 1-for-2. The team also got some help courtesy of Jack Clark, who went 1-for-2 with a double and an RBI.

American Heritage's loss dropped their record down to 21-11. As for Jesuit, they are on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 15 games, which provided a nice bump to their 26-6 record this season.

As of now, neither American Heritage nor Jesuit have any future games scheduled.

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