Baseball Preview: Scituate Spartans vs. Exeter-West Greenwich Scarlet Knights
The Scituate Spartans will challenge the Exeter-West Greenwich Scarlet Knights on Tuesday. Both teams come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Scituate can now show off ten landslide victories after their most recent game on Wednesday. They never let Davies Career & Tech onto the board and left with a 10-0 win. The high-flying hitting performance was a huge turnaround for Scituate considering their one-run performance the matchup before.
Jackson Scanlon made a big impact while hitting and pitching. He kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits over five innings pitched. Scanlon was also solid in the batter's box, scoring a run while going 1-for-3.
In other batting news, the team relied heavily on Mathew Spaziano, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was Kaiden Durand, who scored a run and stole three bases while going 2-for-3.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Exeter-West Greenwich had no problem doing just that on Friday. They had just enough and edged the Blue Wave out 2-1.
Exeter-West Greenwich saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was James Smith, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
Scituate's victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 13-8. As for Exeter-West Greenwich, their record is now 13-7.
The batters for both teams will have to hit smart on Tuesday as both have some strikeout artists on the roster. Scituate has been retiring batters left and right this season, having averaged 9.2 strikeouts per game. However, it's not like Exeter-West Greenwich struggles in that department as they've been averaging 6.6. Considering how easily both teams rack up Ks, the hitters on both teams better bring their A-game into this one.
Scituate suffered a grim 14-3 defeat to Exeter-West Greenwich when the teams last played back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Exeter-West Greenwich's Kole Kilduff, who tossed 4.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off four hits. Now that Scituate knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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