The Elk Grove Thundering Herd will be staying on the road on Friday to face off against the Granite Bay Grizzlies at 6:00 p.m. Both teams come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Elk Grove is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. They walked away with a 7-4 victory over Whitney. Seven seems to be a good number for Elk Grove as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Joey Madrigal tossed a big game, pitching 4.2 innings while giving up just one earned run off two hits. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two walks in four consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Antonio Cuevas was excellent, scoring a run while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Ethan Groves, who scored two runs while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, Granite Bay had already won three in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4 runs), and they went ahead and made it four on Wednesday. They came out on top against the Timberwolves by a score of 6-3.
Jack Ghufran tossed a big game, tossing six innings while giving up just two earned (and one unearned) runs off three hits.
At the plate, Jimmy Radler was excellent, scoring two runs while going 2-for-2. Brenden Pops was another key contributor, going 1-for-2 with two RBI.
Elk Grove is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a massive bump to their 21-12 record this season. As for Granite Bay, they pushed their record up to 23-9 with that victory, which was their third straight at home.
Elk Grove came up short against Granite Bay in their previous matchup back in March, falling 5-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Granite Bay's Peter Caldera, who tossed two innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit. Now that Elk Grove knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? Check MaxPreps.com after the match to find out.
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