Baseball Game Preview: Buckeye Valley Barons vs. Whitehall-Yearling Rams

For the second straight game, Buckeye Valley will face off against Whitehall-Yearling. The Barons will challenge the Rams at 5:15 p.m. on Friday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Buckeye Valley has four straight wins, Whitehall-Yearling has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Buckeye Valley's pitching crew heads into the contest hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Wednesday. They put the hurt on Whitehall-Yearling with a sharp 13-0 victory. Considering the Barons have won five matchups by more than five runs this season, Wednesday's blowout was nothing new.

Buckeye Valley's win was their third straight at home, which pushed their record up to 8-3-1. The home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Whitehall-Yearling, their loss dropped their record down to 1-10.