The Palm Desert Aztecs will head out on the road to square off against the La Quinta Blackhawks at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Palm Desert is coming into the game hot, having won their last five games.
Palm Desert will head into Tuesday's contest hoping to keep the good times rolling: they only won by two when they last took the field, which might have inspired the nine-point they dealt Palm Springs on Tuesday. Everything went Palm Desert's way against Palm Springs as Palm Desert made off with an 11-2 win.
Adam Hart-Marchini tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and only two hits over 4.2 innings pitched. He has been consistent recently: he hasn't given up more than two hits in six consecutive pitching appearances.
At the plate, Palm Desert got a massive performance out of Tyler Barsness, who scored a run and stole two bases while going 2-for-4. Another player making a difference was Stevie Hutchinson, who scored a run and stole a base while going 2-for-5.
Meanwhile, La Quinta never let their opponents score on Wednesday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Xavier Prep and snuck past 2-0.
La Quinta saw four different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Alex Rom-Turbio, who went 2-for-2 with an RBI.
Palm Desert has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 15-10 record this season. As for La Quinta, their victory bumped their record up to 18-7.
Palm Desert couldn't quite finish off La Quinta in their previous meeting back in March and fell 6-4. Can Palm Desert avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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