The Peotone Blue Devils will venture away from home to take on the Dwight Trojans at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Peotone's hitters haven't had much luck over their past five matches, but Thursday's game will give them a chance to turn things around.
For some reason, the away team has come away with the win the last four times Peotone and Herscher have met, but the home crowd finally got their W on Tuesday. The Blue Devils fell just short of the Tigers by a score of 1-0.
Meanwhile, Dwight had already won two in a row (a stretch where they outscored their opponents by an average of 4 runs) and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Falcons as they made off with an 8-0 win. The Trojans might be getting used to big wins seeing as the team has won 16 contests by six runs or more this season.
Dwight pushed their record up to 23-9 with the victory, which was their fifth straight on the road. Those road wins came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.4 runs on average over those games. As for Peotone, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-17.
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