Baseball Recap: Shafter Picks Up Fourth Consecutive Win
By Team Reports
Apr 23, 2025, 1:02am
Baseball Recap: Shafter Generals vs. Taft Wildcats
| 04/22/25 vs Taft | 5-4 |
| 04/10/25 vs Kennedy | 10-0 |
| 04/08/25 @ Kennedy | 16-4 |
| 03/29/25 vs North | 11-1 |
Shafter proved they can win big two weeks ago (they won by ten) and on Tuesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They won by a run and slipped past the Taft Wildcats 5-4. The win was familiar territory for the Generals, who have now won four matchups in a row.
The team relied heavily on Andy Gomez, who went a perfect 3-for-3 with one stolen base, two RBI, and one run. That's the most RBI he has posted since back in February. The team also got some help courtesy of Alex Casanova-Balderrama, who went 1-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI.
Shafter pushed their record up to 11-4 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. The home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.4 runs on average over those games. As for Taft, their loss dropped their record down to 7-12.
Shafter will have a chance to go back-to-back against the Wildcats: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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