Haltom is 0-3 against Arlington since March of 2024 but things could change on Friday. The Haltom Buffalos will take on the Arlington Colts at 7:00 p.m. Haltom is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 7.1 runs per game this season.
Haltom fell victim to Arlington and their airtight pitching crew on Tuesday. They lost 10-0 to the Colts.
For Arlington's part, Haltom's batters probably weren't too happy with Danny Bustamante, who pitched a no hitter and racked up 13 Ks (he gave up zero walks). The dominant performance gave Bustamante a new career-high in strikeouts.
At the plate, Arlington let Lunden Prater and Abraham Alvarado run wild. Prater went a perfect 3-for-3 with one home run, three runs, and one double, while Alvarado went a perfect 3-for-3 with one home run and three RBI. That's the most hits Prater has posted since back in May of 2024. The team also got some help courtesy of Gannon Howard, who went a perfect 2-for-2 with one triple, one run, and one RBI.
Arlington always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .528. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Haltom only posted an OBP of .000.
Arlington is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches. That's provided a massive bump to their 6-8 record this season. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to strikeouts: they averaged an imposing 7.5 strikeouts in those games compared to only 3.4 in the others. Haltom's defeat dropped their record down to 11-5.
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