Baseball Preview: Mica Mountain Thunderbolts vs. Amphitheater Panthers
Mica Mountain has enjoyed the comforts of home their last three games, but now they'll head out on the road. They will face off against the Amphitheater Panthers at 6:00 p.m. on Friday. Mica Mountain will be strutting in after a victory while Amphitheater will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Thursday, Mica Mountain beat Marana by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 6-4.
Mica Mountain let Ethan Hunt and Jayden Barlet SR loose on the outfield. Hunt scored two runs and stole two bases while going 1-for-3, while Barlet SR scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, Amphitheater was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their eighth straight loss. They wound up on the wrong side of a rough 15-2 walloping at the hands of Douglas.
Amphitheater saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Andres Espinoza, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Mica Mountain is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-5 record this season. As for Amphitheater, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-9.
Everything went Mica Mountain's way against Amphitheater in their previous meeting back in April of 2023 as Mica Mountain made off with a 16-1 win. Will Mica Mountain repeat their success, or does Amphitheater have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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