Shafter is 2-8 against Taft since March of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Generals will venture away from home to square off against the Wildcats at 6:30 p.m. Shafter will be looking to extend their current seven-game winning streak.
Shafter barely beat Kennedy the last time the pair played, but that sure wasn't the case this time around. The Generals blew past the Thunderbirds 10-1 on Thursday. The Generals might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won five matchups by seven runs or more this season.
Henry Wiebe and Jesiah Rodriguez did most of the damage at the plate: Wiebe got on base in three of his four plate appearances with two RBI and one run, while Rodriguez earned two RBI, two runs, and one stolen base. That stolen base marked the first that Rodriguez has snagged this season. The team also got some help courtesy of Noah Bill, who went 2-for-3 with two runs.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Taft took on Wasco on Thursday. The Wildcats fell just short of the Tigers by a score of 5-3. The Wildcats have struggled against the Tigers recently, as the game was their third consecutive lost matchup.
Taft saw two different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Ben Nuncio, who went 1-for-3 with one run and one RBI.
Taft's defeat dropped their record down to 7-14. As for Shafter, their victory bumped their record up to 10-5.
Shafter skirted past Taft 10-8 in their previous meeting back in April of 2025. Will the Generals repeat their success, or do the Wildcats have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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