After two games on the road, Brearley is heading back home. They will take on the Dayton Bulldogs at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Brearley's pitching crew heads into the match hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Thursday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Oratory Prep 2-0. That's two games straight that Brearley has won by exactly two runs.
Meanwhile, it was close, but on Tuesday Dayton sidestepped Rahway for a 4-3 victory. That's two games straight that Dayton has won by just one run.
Dayton got a great performance from Chris Rodrigues as he struck out six batters over 5.2 innings while giving up three earned runs off four hits.
On the hitting side, the team relied heavily on Michael Ramirez, who went 2-for-3 with a home run and a double.
Brearley has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 13-5 record this season. As for Dayton, they pushed their record up to 10-10 with that win, which was their third straight at home.
Brearley suffered a grim 9-2 defeat to Dayton in their previous meeting last Saturday. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Dayton's Peter Ramirez, who didn't allow a single earned run and only one hit over four innings pitched. Now that Brearley knows the damage he can cause, will they be able to stop him this time? There's only one way to find out.
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