The Lawson Lightning will head out on the road to square off against the Maplewood Panthers at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Lawson has four straight wins, Maplewood has six straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Lawson put the finishing touches on their eighth blowout victory of the season on Monday. They beat Maplewood by the very same score they won with in their prior game: 10-0.
Elliot Swihart and C.J. Thornton did most of the damage at the plate: Swihart scored two runs and stole three bases while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances, while Thornton scored two runs and stole four bases while going 1-for-1. Another player making a difference was Xavier Dangerfield, who got on base in all three of his plate appearances with a stolen base and two RBI.
Lawson is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-7 record this season. As for Maplewood, their loss dropped their record down to 4-9.
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