Baseball Recap: Brookfield Sets Scoring Season-High Against Lexington

Bulldogs

Team Score (Highest)

05/16/25 vs Lexington	16
05/09/25 vs Northwestern	11
05/09/25 vs Brunswick	11
04/24/25 vs Milan	10
05/13/25 vs Princeton	9

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Brookfield). They put the hurt on the Lexington Minutemen with a sharp 16-2 victory on Friday. The Bulldogs not only won on Friday, but they posted their biggest win since April 10, 2024 (when they won 18-3).

Brookfield let Brayden Shoop and Trayce Switzer run wild. Shoop went 2-for-3 with four RBI, two runs, and one double, while Switzer went 1-for-5 with one home run and four RBI. Those four RBI gave Shoop a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Dayton Glasgow, who went 1-for-3 with three runs and one RBI.

Brookfield hit smart and finished the game with only two strikeouts. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Lexington struck out 12 times.

Brookfield is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games. That's provided a massive bump to their 6-12 record this season. Those wins came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 11.8 runs over those games. As for Lexington, their loss was their fourth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 6-22.

As of now, neither Brookfield nor the Minutemen have any future games scheduled.