After two games on the road, San Clemente is heading back home. They will take on the San Juan Hills Stallions at 3:45 p.m. on Wednesday. The pair have allowed few runs on average, (San Clemente: 3.5, San Juan Hills: 0.6) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Last Thursday, San Clemente didn't have quite enough to beat Corona del Mar and fell 2-1.
Pearce Brown was huge while hitting and pitching even without the win. On the mound, he struck out seven batters over five innings while giving up just one earned run off three hits. Brown was also big at the plate, going 1-for-2 with a triple and a stolen base.
Brown wasn't the only one making solid contact as five players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Brock DellaVedova, who went 1-for-4 with a double.
Meanwhile, San Juan Hills came tearing into Friday's contest with ten straight wins (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 3.2 runs) and they left with even more momentum. They skirted past the Chargers 3-2.
San Clemente now has a losing record at 7-8. As for San Juan Hills, they pushed their record up to 13-1 with that victory, which was their seventh straight at home.
San Clemente came out on top in a nail-biter against San Juan Hills in their previous matchup back in April of 2023, sneaking past 5-4. Will San Clemente repeat their success, or does San Juan Hills have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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