Sunnyvale will venture away from home to square off against the Palmer Bulldogs at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Sunnyvale has five straight victories, Palmer has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
While Sunnyvale didn't have the best season last year (they finished 7-16-1), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They came out on top against Grand Prairie by a score of 9-4 on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Palmer came up short against Midlothian Heritage on Saturday, falling 9-3. That's two games in a row now that the Bulldogs have lost by exactly six runs.
Palmer saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Kenli Dobie, who scored three runs and stole a base while going 3-for-3. The dominant performance also gave Dobie a new career-high in hits (three).
Palmer's loss dropped their record down to 6-8-1. As for Sunnyvale, their win bumped their record up to 5-0.
Sunnyvale suffered a grim 8-0 defeat to Palmer when the teams last played back in March of 2016. Can Sunnyvale avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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