The Rich Township Raptors are taking a road trip to square off against the Morgan Park Mustangs at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Rich Township will aim to continue their three-game streak of scoring more runs each contest than the last.
Rich Township is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Everything went their way against Thornridge on Monday as they made off with an 18-0 win. With that victory, the Raptors brought their scoring average up to 7.2 runs per game.
Rich Township got a great performance from Maurice Pinkney as he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit while striking out 14 over five innings pitched. Pinkney has been consistent : he hasn't given up more than one earned run in five consecutive appearances.
At the plate, the team relied heavily on Brandon Bankhead, who scored three runs and stole four bases while going 3-for-3. That's the most runs he has posted since back in May of 2024. Gio Rivera was another key player, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 1-for-2.
Rich Township kept the outfield on their toes and finished the game with 14 hits. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 4.8 hits per game earlier this season, but in their last 15 games they've averaged 8.8.
Meanwhile, Morgan Park waltzed into their match on Monday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Sun Warriors. Two seems to be a good number for the Mustangs as the squad scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Morgan Park pushed their record up to 5-2-2 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Those home wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 3.0 runs on average over those games. As for Rich Township, their victory was their first in the conference, bumping their conference record up to 1-3 and their overall record up to 3-7.
Rich Township came up short against Morgan Park in their previous meeting back in March of 2024, falling 9-4. Can the Raptors avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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