For the second straight game, Lubbock-Cooper will face off against Monterey. The Pirates will venture away from home to take on the Plainsmen at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Lubbock-Cooper has seven straight victories, Monterey has four straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Lubbock-Cooper's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They blew past Monterey 8-0. The result was nothing new for the Pirates, who have now won 14 contests by six runs or more so far this season.
For Monterey's part, they saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Joaquin Maldonado, who went 1-for-3 with one double. That double was Maldonado's first of the season.
Lubbock-Cooper pushed their record up to 21-10 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. Those home victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 1.6 runs on average over those games. As for Monterey, their loss dropped their record down to 5-24-1.
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