The Moorpark Musketeers have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Camarillo Scorpions at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday. The pair have allowed few runs on average, (Moorpark: 3.9, Camarillo: 1.8) so any runs scored will be well earned.
While Moorpark's victory against St. Bonaventure wasn't quite the blowout they won the last time the pair played, they still came away the winners. Moorpark came out on top in a nail-biter against St. Bonaventure on Saturday and snuck past 4-2.
AJ Mai was a standout: he went 1-for-3 with three RBI and a double. Another player making a difference was Taylor Busch, who scored a run while going 2-for-2.
Meanwhile, Camarillo earned a 4-1 win over Simi Valley on Friday. Four seems to be a good number for Camarillo as the team scooped up a victory with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Nick Tostado spent all seven innings on the mound, and it's clear why: he surrendered just zero earned (and one unearned) runs on three hits. He has been nothing but reliable: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in three consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Trotter Enright was incredible, scoring a run and stealing a base while going 3-for-4. The team also got some help courtesy of Boston Bateman, who scored a run while going 2-for-3.
The win got Moorpark back to even at 7-7-1. As for Camarillo, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-3 record this season.
Moorpark came up short against Camarillo when the teams last played on March 1st, falling 8-3. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Bateman, who kept things locked down with no earned runs or hits while striking out 12 over five innings pitched. Now that Moorpark 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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