Baseball Recap: South Pittsburg Has No Trouble Against Grundy County

By Team Reports Apr 18, 2025, 6:45pm

Baseball Recap: South Pittsburg Pirates vs. Grundy County Yellowjackets

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South Pittsburg never let their opponents score on Friday. Everything went their way against the Grundy County Yellowjackets as they made off with a 10-0 victory. The win continues a trend for the Pirates in their matchups with the Yellowjackets: they've now won six in a row.

Bailey Fults made a splash no matter where he played. He didn't allow a single earned run over five innings pitched. He also tossed no earned runs, which is notable because South Pittsburg is 3-1 when he allows at most two earned runs, but 6-14 otherwise. Fults was also solid in the batter's box, going a perfect 3-for-3 with two runs. That's the most hits he has posted since back in April of 2024.

Jace Stone

Runs Batted In (Career)

04/18/25 vs Grundy County2
04/02/25 vs Whitwell1
03/08/25 vs Chattanooga Central1
03/08/25 vs Signal Mountain1
04/15/24 vs Van Buren County1

In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Jace Stone, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and one run. Those two RBI gave him a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Britton Case, who got on base in two of his four plate appearances with two runs.

South Pittsburg's victory bumped their record up to 9-15. As for Grundy County, they dropped their record down to 5-18 with the defeat, which was their ninth straight on the road.

South Pittsburg will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Yellowjackets: the pair will be back at it again later today.

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