Baseball Recap: Miami Drops Highest Score of Season Against Raines

Stingarees

Margin (Wins)

03/25/25 @ Raines	19
03/24/25 @ Andrew Jackson	17
02/12/25 vs Homestead	12
02/27/25 @ North Miami Beach	11
02/25/25 vs David Posnack Jewish Day	11

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Miami). Everything went their way against the Raines Vikings on Tuesday as Miami made off with a 22-3 win. The Stingarees might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won ten contests by seven runs or more this season.

Alex Semet looked comfortable as he struck out nine batters over four innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off three hits. Those nine strikeouts gave him a new career-high.

At the plate, Miami got a massive performance out of Tyler Jenkins, who scored three runs and stole four bases while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. Those three runs gave Jenkins a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Jhuseph Mejias, who went 2-for-3 with six RBI, three runs, and one triple.

Miami always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .757. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.

The victory (which was Miami's third in a row) raised their record to 14-2. Those wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Raines, their loss dropped their record down to 3-3.

Miami didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next match, a 4-2 defeat against Paxon School For Advanced Studies on the 26th. As for Raines, they will face off against ED White at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Raines' pitchers better be ready for this one: ED White has averaged an impressive 7.3 runs per game this season.