The Jurupa Hills Spartans will head out on the road to take on the Bloomington Bruins at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. The last four games Jurupa Hills has played have been within two runs, so don't be surprised if it's a close one.
On Thursday, Jurupa Hills didn't have quite enough to beat Colton and fell 3-2.
Matthew Toscano was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 3-for-4. Anthony Morales was another key contributor, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 2-for-3.
Even though they lost, Jurupa Hills didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with seven strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Colton only tossed three.
Meanwhile, Bloomington has not done well against Kaiser recently (they were 2-7 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Thursday. Bloomington walked away with a 3-0 win over Kaiser. Three seems to be a good number for Bloomington as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
David Trujillo spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered just zero earned runs on two hits and racked up eight Ks. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't given up a single walk in four consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Bloomington saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jesus DeLaRiva, who got on base in three of his four plate appearances with an RBI.
Jurupa Hills' loss was their fourth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 9-13. As for Bloomington, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 15-8.
Jurupa Hills couldn't quite finish off Bloomington in their previous matchup last Thursday and fell 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Bloomington's Andrew Tejada, who didn't allow a single earned run while striking out eight over seven innings pitched. Now that Jurupa Hills knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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