Canyon is 8-1-1 against La Habra since February of 2016 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Wednesday. The Canyon Comanches will host the La Habra Highlanders at 3:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Canyon has four straight victories, La Habra has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
On Tuesday, it was close, but Canyon sidestepped Pacifica for a 3-2 win.
Gilbert Vargas
Canyon got a great performance from Gilbert Vargas as he struck out seven batters over 5.1 innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits. Vargas is becoming a predictor of Canyon's success: when he allows at most one earned run the team is undefeated (and 1-2 when he doesn't).
Meanwhile, La Habra came up short against Los Alamitos on Friday and fell 6-1. The match marked the Highlanders' lowest-scoring game so far this season.
La Habra saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Anthony Gomez, who went 1-for-2 with one RBI. That RBI marked the first that Gomez brought in this season.
Canyon's victory was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 4-2. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to hits: they averaged an imposing nine hits in those games compared to only five in the others. As for La Habra, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-3.
Canyon was able to grind out a solid win over La Habra in their previous matchup back in February of 2020, winning 4-1. Will Canyon repeat their success, or does La Habra have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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