Baseball Game Preview: Mount St. Joseph Gaels vs. Archbishop Spalding Cavaliers

For the second straight game, Mount St. Joseph will face off against Archbishop Spalding. The Gaels will venture away from home to square off against the Cavaliers at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mount St. Joseph has three straight victories, Archbishop Spalding has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.

Mount St. Joseph is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Maryland's top teams: Archbishop Spalding, who was ranked second at the time (Mount St. Joseph was ranked seventh). The Gaels won by a run and slipped past the Cavaliers 2-1.

Mount St. Joseph pushed their record up to 13-5 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home. Those home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.3 runs on average over those games. As for Archbishop Spalding, their defeat dropped their record down to 20-8.