Sherman Indian is 2-8 against Hamilton since March of 2018 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Sherman Indian Braves are on the road again to play the Hamilton Bobcats at 3:30 p.m. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
Sherman Indian's hitters might be in the hot seat on Thursday considering what happened against United Christian Academy on Tuesday. Their rough 10-0 defeat to the Eagles might stick with them for a while. That's two games in a row now that Sherman Indian has lost by exactly ten runs.
Meanwhile, after soaring to ten runs the game before, Hamilton was a bit more limited in their contest on Tuesday. They fell 6-2 to California Lutheran. Hamilton has not had much luck with California Lutheran recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.
Hamilton saw three different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Seth Aanestad, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-3. Aanestad has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in seven consecutive pitching appearances.
Even though they lost, Hamilton didn't let batters stay on the plate for long and finished the game with 20 strikeouts. That's the most strikeouts they've managed all season.
Sherman Indian's loss dropped their record down to 1-10. As for Hamilton, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-11.
Sherman Indian might still be hurting after the 11-3 loss they got from Hamilton in their previous meeting last Monday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Aanestad, who struck out 19 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off one hit. Now that Sherman Indian 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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