Baseball Recap: Chamblee Sets Scoring Season-High Against Tri-Cities

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Team Score (Highest)

03/12/25 vs Tri-Cities	16
02/17/25 vs Tucker	12
02/15/25 vs Southwest DeKalb	10
03/06/25 vs Lakeside	7
03/07/25 @ Lakeside	6

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Chamblee). They blew past Tri-Cities 16-0 on Wednesday. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the team's high-flying offense, the game also marked the team's biggest victory of the season.

James Morton looked comfortable as he struck out seven batters over three innings while giving up no earned runs off one hit (and only one walk). He has become a key player for Chamblee: the team is 2-1 when he allows at most two hits, but 2-8 otherwise.

At the plate, the team relied heavily on Sammy Heetderks, who scored three runs while getting on base in all four of his plate appearances. What's more, he posted two doubles, the most he's had since back in February of 2024. The team also got some help courtesy of Sam Scazzero, who scored three runs and stole Two bases. while getting on base in two of his three plate appearances.

Chamblee always had someone on base and finished the game having posted an OBP of .655. That's the best OBP they've posted all season.

The win made it two in a row for Chamblee and bumps their season record up to 4-9. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.0 runs on average over those games. As for Tri-Cities, they dropped their record down to 0-6 with the defeat, which was their fifth straight on the road.

Chamblee will have a chance to go back-to-back against Tri-Cities: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 5:00 p.m. on Friday.