Baseball Game Preview: Altoona Mountain Lions vs. DuBois Beavers

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Previous Games

05/10/24 - Away	12-1 W
05/13/23 - Home	9-6 W
04/23/22 - Away	15-5 W
05/08/21 - Home	11-3 W
05/16/19 - Home	8-13 L
+ 5 more games

Altoona and DuBois are an even 5-5 against one another since April of 2017, but likely not for long. The Mountain Lions will welcome the Beavers at 4:15 p.m. on Friday. Neither Altoona nor DuBois posted many runs in their last games, so it might be the pitching crews that decide this one.

Altoona fought the good fight in their extra-innings contest against Cedar Cliff on Wednesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Colts by a score of 2-1. The Mountain Lions haven't had much luck with the Colts recently, as the team has come up short the last six times they've met.

Leyland Baer was a force to be reckoned with on the mound despite the final result: he didn't allow a single earned run over 6.1 innings pitched.

On the hitting side, Altoona saw five different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Aaron Smearman, who went a perfect 4-for-4 with one triple and one run.

Meanwhile, DuBois waltzed into their match on Wednesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They came within a single run of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Raiders. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Beavers have posted against the Raiders since April 13, 2022.

DuBois' win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 12-5. The road victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 0.7 runs on average over those games. As for Altoona, their loss dropped their record down to 9-8.

Everything went Altoona's way against DuBois in their previous matchup back in May of 2024, as Altoona made off with a 12-1 win. Do the Mountain Lions have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Beavers turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.