The Vidor Pirates will face off against the Bridge City Cardinals at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average, (Vidor 2.9, Bridge City 2.2) so any runs scored will be well earned.
Vidor is coming in off a wild two-game stretch: after soaring to 11 runs on Saturday, they were much more limited against Bridge City on Tuesday. They fell just short of the Cardinals by a score of 3-1. The Pirates' loss signaled the end of their three-game winning streak.
Brooks Burns was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he struck out six batters over five innings while giving up three earned runs off five hits (and not a single walk). Furthermore, he didn't allow a single walk, the first time he has blanked an opponent since back in February.
The win (which was Bridge City's fifth in a row) raised their record to 14-1-1. They've dominated over that stretch too, winning by an average of 10.8 runs. As for Vidor, their defeat was their first in the district, dropping their district record down to 2-1 and their overall record down to 13-6.
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