Baseball Preview: Hodgdon Hawks vs. Fort Fairfield Tigers
The Hodgdon Hawks will square off against the Fort Fairfield Tigers on Thursday. Hodgdon is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 12.1 runs per game this season.
Hodgdon is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with an 8-7 win over Schenck.
Hunter Duttweiler and Reiley Wright did most of the damage at the plate: Duttweiler scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-3, while Wright scored two runs and stole two bases while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. Finn Gardiner was another key contributor, scoring two runs and stealing a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Fort Fairfield had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 11.5 runs), and they went ahead and made it three last Tuesday. They were the clear victor by a 10-2 margin over the Panthers. The result was nothing new for Fort Fairfield, who have now won six matchups by eight runs or more so far this season.
Hodgdon pushed their record up to 11-4 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home. As for Fort Fairfield, their win bumped their record up to 12-2.
Hodgdon couldn't quite finish off Fort Fairfield in their previous matchup two weeks ago and fell 5-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Fort Fairfield's Graedon King, who struck out eight batters over seven innings while giving up three earned runs off six hits. Now that Hodgdon knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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