Baseball Preview: Forest Park Rangers vs. Jasper Wildcats
Forest Park is 1-6 against Jasper since May of 2015 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Saturday. The Forest Park Rangers will be playing in front of their home fans against the Jasper Wildcats at 1:00 p.m. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Forest Park: 2.8, Jasper: 2.5) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Forest Park is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Indiana's top teams: North Posey, who was ranked 21st in their home state at the time (Forest Park was ranked 19th). Forest Park fell just short of North Posey by a score of 2-0 on Friday. Forest Park's defeat signaled the end of their five-game winning streak.
Meanwhile, Jasper scored the most runs they've had all season to find success on Friday. They blew past Southridge 18-2. Considering Jasper has won nine matches by more than seven runs this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Forest Park's loss dropped their record down to 17-3. As for Jasper, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 14 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 18-5 record this season.
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