Everglades hasn't had much luck against Cypress Bay recently, but that could start to change on Wednesday. The Everglades Gators will venture away from home to take on the Cypress Bay Lightning at 6:30 p.m.
Everglades is headed into Wednesday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their third straight game on Tuesday. They fell 7-3 to Coral Springs.
Everglades saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Alex Ramirez, who scored a run and stole Two bases. while going 1-for-3.
Meanwhile, there's no place like home for Cypress Bay, who bounced back after a loss on the road on Wednesday. They walked away with a 6-2 victory over South Plantation on Monday. Give some credit to the fans of both teams: the last four times they've met, the home team has come away the winner.
Cypress Bay also got a great performance from Carson Cook as he didn't allow a single earned run and allowed only one hit while striking out six over 4.2 innings pitched. Cypress Bay is 2-1 when Cook allowsone or fewer hits, but 2-3 otherwise.
At the plate, Cypress Bay let Santiago Sanchez and Marshall Persteins run wild. Sanchez scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in two of his three plate appearances, while Persteins went 1-for-2 with three RBI and one double. The dominant performance gave Persteins a new career-high in RBI. Diego Baron was another key player, going 1-for-3 with one triple and two RBI.
The win got Cypress Bay back to even at 4-4. As for Everglades, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-7.
Everglades couldn't quite finish off Cypress Bay in their previous meeting back in March of 2023 and fell 6-4. Can Everglades avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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