Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Baldwin). Everything went their way against the Westside Patriots on Tuesday as the Baldwin Braves made off with a 22-4 win. The team's explosion at the plate also rewarded the Braves with their most commanding win of the season.
Rylie Grimes looked comfortable as she pitched three innings while giving up no earned runs off four hits.
At the plate, Baldwin got a massive performance out of Suri Clark, who went 4-for-3 with a home run, two stolen bases, and two stolen bases. The dominant performance also gave Clark a new career-high in batting average. Carmela Gray was another key player, going 3-for-3 with four stolen bases, three runs, and three runs.
Perhaps unsurprisingly given the score, Baldwin always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .767. That's a new trend for them: their average OBP was 0% earlier this season, but in their last five contests they've averaged 44.5%.
Baldwin is on a roll lately: they've won six of their last eight matches, which provided a massive bump to their 6-8 record this season. As for Westside, they are on a 14-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-13.
Baldwin will face off against Cross Creek at 5:00 p.m. on Monday. Cross Creek is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 9.3 runs per game this season. As for Westside, they didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next matchup, a 15-0 defeat vs. Harlem on the 25th.
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