Baseball Recap: Kimball Sets Scoring Season-High Against Carter

By Team Reports Mar 18, 2025, 9:49pm

Baseball Recap: Kimball Knights vs. Carter Cowboys

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Team Score (Highest)

03/18/25 vs Carter10
02/04/25 @ Western Hills9
02/11/25 vs Adamson8
02/27/25 vs Everman5
03/07/25 vs Aubrey2

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Kimball). Their pitcher stepped up to hand the Carter Cowboys a 10-0 shutout on Tuesday. Give the Knights' pitching crew some credit: that's the team's third straight shutout.

Kimball got a big performance out of William Carrigan, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in all three of his plate appearances. Those two runs gave Carrigan a new career-high. Emiliano Maldonado was another key player, going 1-for-2 with two runs, one triple, and one RBI.

Kimball always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .552. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Carter only posted an OBP of .188.

Kimball's victory was their fourth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 7-8. The wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.3 runs on average over those games. As for Carter, they are on a nine-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 1-10.

Kimball will have a chance to go back-to-back against Carter: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 4:30 p.m. on Friday.

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