The Garden City Cougars will take on the Melvindale Cardinals at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (Garden City 3.4, Melvindale 4) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Garden City's usually-dominant pitching crew will be looking to make up for Saturday's struggle, when Plymouth hitters got past them. The Cougars came up short against the Wildcats on Saturday, falling 12-2. The Cougars were red-hot at the plate heading into the matchup (they scored no less than ten runs in the three games prior), but the Wildcats' pitchers proved too tough.
Meanwhile, Melvindale entered their tilt with Renaissance on Friday with eight consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with nine. They walked away with a 9-6 victory over the Phoenix.
Melvindale pushed their record up to 10-2 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home. The home victories came thanks in part to their hitting performance across that stretch, as they averaged 13.5 runs over those games. As for Garden City, their loss ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 8-3.
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