Baseball Preview: Three Rivers Bulldogs vs. Freer Buckaroos
The Three Rivers Bulldogs will be playing at home against the Freer Buckaroos at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Three Rivers: 3.9, Freer: 3) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Three Rivers is probably headed into the matchup with a chip on their shoulder considering Refugio just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Friday. They fell just short of the Bobcats by a score of 5-4. The defeat continues a trend for Three Rivers in their matchups with Refugio: they've now lost four in a row.
Sebastian Steele made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and scored a run and stole a base while going 3-for-4. He has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last five times he's played.
Meanwhile, Freer owes their pitching crew a big pat on the back after their performance on Saturday. They had just enough and edged George West out 1-0. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Freer.
Eric Leal looked comfortable as he tossed 2.1 innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit.
On the hitting side, Freer's victory was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Isaac Gonzalez, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3.
Three Rivers' loss dropped their record down to 13-8. As for Freer, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 14-8 record this season.
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