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| 03/01/24 - Away | 12-2 W |
| 03/03/23 - Home | 7-8 L |
| 04/26/21 - Home | 30-20 W |
| 04/15/19 - Away | 7-8 L |
| 03/29/19 - Home | 5-3 W |
| + 5 more games |
Copper Canyon and La Joya Community are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2016, but likely not for long. The Aztecs will head out to challenge the Fighting Lobos at 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday. Copper Canyon is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.9 runs per game this season.
Copper Canyon is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Fairfax just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Friday. They lost 14-4 to the Stampede.
Copper Canyon saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Max Torres Felix, who went 1-for-2 with two RBI. Another was Anthony Acosta Livas, who scored a run while going 1-for-2.
Meanwhile, La Joya Community had already won five in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 9 runs) and they went ahead and made it six on Friday. Their pitchers stepped up to hand the Knights a 5-0 shutout. Five seems to be a good number for the Fighting Lobos as the team scooped up a win with the same number of runs in their previous game.
Aidan Escobedo made a splash while hitting and pitching. He didn't allow a single earned run while striking out seven over four innings pitched. Those seven strikeouts gave him a new career-high. He was also solid in the batter's box, going 2-for-4 with two stolen bases and two RBI.
La Joya Community pushed their record up to 13-5 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.7 runs on average over those games. As for Copper Canyon, their loss dropped their record down to 9-5-1.
Everything went Copper Canyon's way against La Joya Community when the teams last played back in March of 2024, as Copper Canyon made off with a 12-2 victory. Will the Aztecs repeat their success, or do the Fighting Lobos have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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