Baseball Game Preview: Lake Oswego on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 11, 2024, 3:59pm

Baseball Preview: Lake Oswego Lakers vs. Tualatin Timberwolves

The Lake Oswego Lakers will be playing at home against the Tualatin Timberwolves at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Lake Oswego: 3.6, Tualatin: 4.1) so any runs scored will be well earned.

If Lake Oswego beats Tualatin with 12 runs on Monday, it's going to be the team's new lucky number: they've won their past two matches with that exact score. Lake Oswego blew past Lakeridge 12-2. That's two games straight that Lake Oswego has won by exactly ten runs.

Rylan McClaskey tossed a big game, tossing six innings while giving up three earned runs off six hits.

On the hitting side, Lake Oswego got a massive performance out of Conor Croteau, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. Karsten Krebs was another key contributor, going 1-for-3 with three RBI, a triple, and a run.

Meanwhile, Tualatin came up short against Tigard on Friday and fell 6-3. Tualatin has now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.

Lake Oswego has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 18-7 record this season. As for Tualatin, their defeat dropped their record down to 14-10.

Lake Oswego skirted past Tualatin 2-0 in their previous meeting last Wednesday. Does Lake Oswego have another victory up their sleeve, or will Tualatin turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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