Baseball Game Preview: Santa Monica Vikings vs. Lawndale Cardinals

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Previous Games

03/01/22 - Home	12-4 W
04/11/19 - Home	6-1 W
04/09/19 - Away	2-0 W
04/12/18 - Away	5-4 W
04/10/18 - Home	10-0 W
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Santa Monica is a perfect 10-0 against Lawndale since April of 2015 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Tuesday. The Vikings will be playing at home against the Cardinals at 3:15 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Santa Monica 2.1, Lawndale 3.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.

Santa Monica easily dispatched Hawthorne last Thursday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Vikings fell just short of Simi Valley by a score of 3-1 on Saturday. Having soared to a lofty 18 runs in the game before, the Vikings couldn't push the score so high this time.

Eddie Jennings was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he tossed six innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off five hits. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't given up more than one earned run in six consecutive appearances.

On the hitting side, Isaac Liberman made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and went 1-for-3 with one home run. That home run marked the first that he launched this season.

Meanwhile, after a string of four wins, Lawndale's good fortune finally ran out on Thursday. They fell just short of Beverly Hills by a score of 6-5.

Lawndale saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Alejandro Zepeda, who went 2-for-4 with one home run, two runs, and two RBI.

Santa Monica's loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 12-6. As for Lawndale, their defeat was their first in the league, dropping their league record down to 7-1 and their overall record down to 13-5.

Santa Monica took their win against Lawndale when the teams last played back in March of 2022 by a conclusive 12-4 score. Will the Vikings repeat their success, or do the Cardinals have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.