Baseball Preview: Rocky Mountain Lobos vs. Erie Tigers
After three games on the road, Rocky Mountain is heading back home. They will take on the Erie Tigers at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. Rocky Mountain is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.9 runs per game this season.
Rocky Mountain is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Colorado's top teams: Fort Collins, who was ranked ninth in their home state at the time (Rocky Mountain was ranked 20th). Rocky Mountain fell 6-1 to Fort Collins on Friday.
Rocky Mountain saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Lennon Huffman-Proctor, who went 1-for-2 with two stolen bases. Huffman-Proctor has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last five times he's played.
Meanwhile, Erie can finally bid farewell to their six-game losing streak thanks to their game on Saturday. They never let Mountain Range onto the board and left with a 10-0 victory.
Kaveh Meredith looked comfortable as he didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out seven over four innings pitched.
On the hitting side, Erie got a big performance out of Brooks Barber, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. The team also got some help courtesy of Varek Van Aelstyn, who got on base in all three of his plate appearances with two RBI and a double.
Rocky Mountain's loss dropped their record down to 12-6. As for Erie, their win ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 8-11.
Rocky Mountain beat Erie 10-5 in their previous matchup back in May of 2023. Will Rocky Mountain repeat their success, or does Erie have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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