Baseball Game Preview: Basha on Home-Turf

By Team Reports May 1, 2024, 8:00am

Baseball Preview: Basha Bears vs. Chandler Wolves

Basha has been on the road for four straight, but on Thursday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Chandler Wolves at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. Basha's pitching crew has only allowed 3.9 runs per game this season, so Chandler's hitters will have their work cut out for them.

Basha is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Queen Creek, who was ranked third in their home state at the time (Basha was ranked 17th). Basha fell just short of Queen Creek by a score of 2-1 on Tuesday. Having soared to a lofty 11 runs in the game before, Basha couldn't push the score so high this time.

Basha saw seven different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Gavin Smith, who went 1-for-4 with a triple.

Meanwhile, Chandler has not done well against Corona del Sol recently (they were 2-7 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. Chandler narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past Corona del Sol 4-2.

Basha's loss dropped their record down to 16-11-1. As for Chandler, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 16-13-2 record this season.

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