Carlsbad and San Marcos are an even 5-5 against one another since May of 2019, but likely not for long. The Carlsbad Lancers will head out on the road to challenge the San Marcos Knights at 4:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Carlsbad has four straight wins, San Marcos has four straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Carlsbad's pitching crew heads into the matchup hoping to repeat the dominance they displayed on Tuesday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-0 victory over San Marcos. That's two games straight that Carlsbad has won by exactly two runs.
Not much got past Tyler Foster, who gave up just four hits and racked up nine Ks to keep San Marcos off the board. Foster has been nothing but reliable on the mound: he hasn't pitched less than five innings in six consecutive pitching appearances.
On the hitting side, Carlsbad saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Jett Kenady, who scored a run while going 1-for-3.
Carlsbad is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matches, which provided a massive bump to their 14-9 record this season. As for San Marcos, their defeat dropped their record down to 12-10.
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