Baseball Recap: Alcoa Extends Winning Streak to 15

By Team Reports May 16, 2025, 2:14am

Baseball Recap: Alcoa Tornadoes vs. McMinn Central Chargers

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Previous Games

05/14/25 vs McMinn Central2-0
05/10/25 vs Pigeon Forge3-2
05/09/25 vs West Greene10-0
05/05/25 vs Gatlinburg-Pittman10-0
05/03/25 vs Gatlinburg-Pittman15-5
+ 10 more games

Alcoa waltzed into their game on Wednesday with 14 straight wins... but they left with 15. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the McMinn Central Chargers a 2-0 shutout. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest win the Tornadoes have posted against the Chargers since April 18, 2017.

Alcoa pushed their record up to 28-4 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.3 runs on average over those games. As for McMinn Central, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 23-13.

The teams didn't have to wait long for a rematch: Alcoa beat the Chargers by a score of 9-5 on Thursday.

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