Casa Grande and Vintage are an even 5-5 against one another since May of 2019, but likely not for long. The Casa Grande Gauchos are on the road again on Friday to play the Vintage Crushers at 7:00 p.m. Both teams have allowed few runs on average, (Casa Grande: 3.5, Vintage: 3.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Casa Grande's pitching crew heads into the game hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Petaluma 2-0.
Not much got past Brady Laubscher, who gave up just four hits and racked up nine Ks to keep Petaluma off the board. Laubscher has been consistent recently: he hasn't tossed less than five strikeouts in seven consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Casa Grande's victory was truly a team effort as four different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Luke Bell, who went 2-for-3 with a double.
Meanwhile, Vintage beat American Canyon 7-2 on Tuesday.
Charlie Alcayaga tossed a big game, tossing five innings while giving up just two earned runs off five hits.
At the plate, Ian Fernandez was incredible, going 2-for-3 with a home run and two runs. Another player making a difference was Kai Gulliksen, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 1-for-2.
Casa Grande has been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 18-7 record this season. As for Vintage, their win bumped their record up to 15-10.
Casa Grande came up short against Vintage in their previous matchup on Thursday, falling 4-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Vintage's Noah Piersig, who struck out six batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned run off one hit (and not a single walk). Now that Casa Grande 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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