Huntington Beach waltzed into their contest on Tuesday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They put the hurt on the Los Alamitos Griffins with a sharp 7-1 win. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Huntington Beach also won the last time the pair played back in March.
Nathan Aceves tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only one hit while striking out six over five innings pitched. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in four consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Jayton Greer was excellent, going 1-for-2 with a home run. The team also got some help courtesy of John Petrie, who went 2-for-3 with two RBI and a double.
Huntington Beach is on a roll lately: they've won 13 of their last 16 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 20-7 record this season. As for Los Alamitos, their defeat ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 20-7.
Huntington Beach will have a chance to go back-to-back against Los Alamitos: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 3:15 p.m. on Thursday.
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