The West Bend East Suns will look to defend their home field on Friday against the Homestead Highlanders at 7:00 p.m. West Bend East is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 8.6 runs per game this season.
On Wednesday, West Bend East sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with an 8-6 win over Cedarburg. The victory made it back-to-back wins for West Bend East.
Ben Hesse was excellent, scoring a run while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances.
Meanwhile, Homestead came up short against West Bend West on Wednesday and fell 11-8.
Grant Poindexter was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 3-for-4.
West Bend East's victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 12-5. As for Homestead, their loss dropped their record down to 8-7.
The pitchers for both teams better look sharp on Friday as neither team is afraid to steal. West Bend East has been swiping bases left and right this season, having averaged 2.9 stolen bases per game. However, it's not like Homestead struggles in that department as they've been averaging 2.9. The only question left is which team can snag more.
West Bend East suffered a grim 10-0 defeat to Homestead in their previous meeting back in April. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Homestead's Paul Nuetzel, who didn't allow a single earned run and only two hits while striking out 11 over five innings pitched. Now that West Bend East 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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