The Rochester Rockets are taking a road trip to take on Springfield at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Rochester will be strutting in after a victory while Springfield will be coming in after a defeat.
Rochester proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by 12) and on Friday they proved they can win the close ones too. They won by a run and slipped past Macomb 4-3.
Rochester's win was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Ajay Runkel, who went 1-for-2 with one run and one RBI.
Meanwhile, Springfield unfortunately witnessed the end of their three-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell 7-2 to East Peoria. The game snapped a strange streak: the last four times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
The victory got Rochester back to even at 7-7. As for Springfield, they now have a losing record of 9-10.
Rochester suffered a grim 11-1 defeat to Springfield when the teams last played back in May of 2025. Can the Rockets avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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