Baseball Preview: Watertown Purple Tigers vs. Upperman Bees
The Watertown Purple Tigers will look to defend their home field on Thursday against the Upperman Bees at 6:30 p.m. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Watertown sitting on four straight wins and Upperman on three.
Last Tuesday, Watertown was able to grind out a solid victory over Monterey, taking the game 8-4.
Meanwhile, Upperman's rock-solid pitcher showed up for the team's third consecutive shutout on Tuesday. Their pitcher stepped up to hand Cumberland County a 10-0 shutout. With that win, Upperman brought their scoring average up to 6.2 runs per game.
Caden Shanks was a major factor no matter where he played. He kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out nine over five innings pitched. Shanks was also big at the plate, scoring a run and stealing two bases while going 1-for-2. He has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times he's played.
In other batting news, Justin Fallon was a standout: he scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-2. Another player making a difference was Evan Huddleston, who scored two runs and stole a base while going 2-for-4.
Watertown pushed their record up to 9-1-1 with that victory, which was their fourth straight on the road. As for Upperman, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 14-8 record this season.
Watertown couldn't quite finish off Upperman in their previous meeting back in April of 2023 and fell 2-0. Thankfully for Watertown, Eli Huddleston (who didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out seven over four innings pitched) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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