Pioneer stacked a seventh blowout win onto their ever-increasing hoard on Friday. They put the hurt on the McAllen Bulldogs with a sharp 12-2 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for Pioneer.
Ruben Lopez tossed a big game, striking out seven batters over 4.2 innings while giving up just two earned runs off five hits. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than seven strikeouts in three consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Erick Graza was incredible, going 2-for-2 with three RBI, two runs, and a triple. Andy Chapa was another key contributor, scoring a run while going 2-for-4.
On McAllen's side, they saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Sean Lara, who went 1-for-2 with an RBI.
Pioneer has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-5 record this season. As for McAllen, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 10-9.
Pioneer will look to defend their home field on Tuesday against McAllen Memorial at 7:00 p.m. Pioneer will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last. As for McAllen, they will get a bit of extra time to process the loss as their next game is a ways off. They'll take on Vela at 7:00 p.m. on April 9th.
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