Aiken owes their pitching crew a big pat on the back after their performance on Monday. They walked away with a 4-0 win over the Midland Valley Mustangs. This was a revenge game for the Fighting Green Hornets: when they faced off against the Mustangs last Friday, they had to take a 5-2 defeat.
Xander Stefanakos tossed a big game, not allowing a single earned run and allowing only two hits over six innings pitched. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (four).
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At the plate, Aiken saw six different players step up and record at least one hit. One of them was Hunter Rarey, who went 1-for-3 with one stolen base and one double. Rarey has been hot recently, having posted at least one stolen base the last three times he's played.
Aiken is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups. That's provided a nice bump to their 12-6 record this season. Those victories came thanks in part to their pitching effort, having only surrendered 2.8 runs on average over those games. As for Midland Valley, their loss was their fifth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 7-12.
We've got plenty of inter-region action coming up soon. Aiken is set to challenge their familiar foe North Augusta at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams have allowed few runs on average (the Fighting Green Hornets 2.9, the Yellow Jackets 3.8) so any runs scored will be well earned. Meanwhile, Midland Valley will square off against rival South Aiken at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
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