Baseball Game Preview: Amesbury Redhawks vs. Ipswich Tigers

The Amesbury Redhawks will face off against the Ipswich Tigers at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

Amesbury is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 11 runs last Monday, they were much more limited against Pentucket Regional on Tuesday. They came up short against Pentucket Regional, falling 8-1. The defeat continues a trend for the Redhawks in their meetings with Pentucket Regional: they've now lost four in a row.

Meanwhile, Ipswich was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They were two runs away from ending the streak, but they lost a 6-4 heartbreaker at the hands of Lynnfield. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.

Amesbury's defeat dropped their record down to 1-7. As for Ipswich, their loss dropped their record down to 3-6.