The Little Cypress-Mauriceville Bears will venture away from home to take on the Vidor Pirates at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Little Cypress-Mauriceville's pitching crew has only allowed 1.7 runs per game this season, so Vidor's hitters will have their work cut out for them.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville is headed in fresh off scoring the most runs they have all season. Everything went their way against West Orange-Stark on Friday as Little Cypress-Mauriceville made off with a 26-1 win. Considering the Bears have won 12 matches by more than six runs this season, Friday's blowout was nothing new.
Meanwhile, Vidor has relied on a stalwart pitchers averaging 3.7 runs allowed per game, but that average took a hit on Friday. They lost 18-7 to Bridge City. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest loss the Pirates have suffered since February 27th.
Vidor got a massive performance out of Noah Rains, who went 2-for-4 with one home run and three RBI. That home run marked the first that Rains launched this season. David Davis was another key player, scoring a run while going 3-for-3.
Even though they lost, Vidor was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .393. The last time their batting average was this high was since the start of last season.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last eight games. That's provided a nice bump to their 15-4 record this season. The victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.9 runs on average over those games. This is the second loss in a row for Vidor and nudges their season record down to 13-7.
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