The Highline Pirates will head out on the road to challenge the Bellevue Wolverines at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last games, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this matchup.
Highline easily dispatched Foster on Wednesday, but unfortunately both the margin and the ultimate result were a different story in this one. The Pirates fell just short of Lindbergh by a score of 7-5 on Thursday. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest loss the Pirates have suffered since March 21st.
Highline saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Roman Easter, who went 1-for-3 with one run, one double, and one RBI.
Meanwhile, after soaring to 12 runs the game before, Bellevue was a bit more limited in their contest on Wednesday. They came up short against Redmond, falling 12-2. The defeat continues a trend for the Wolverines in their meetings with the Mustangs: they've now lost three in a row.
Andrew Van Appledorn made the most of his time at bat despite the final result and went 1-for-3 with one home run.
Bellevue's loss dropped their record down to 10-9. As for Highline, their defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 5-13.
Highline suffered a grim 13-1 defeat to Bellevue when the teams last played back in March. Can the Pirates avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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