The Paden City Wildcats will look to defend their home field on Tuesday against the Bridgeport Bulldogs at 5:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Paden City has five straight victories, Bridgeport has 17 straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the field.
Paden City will head into Saturday's match hoping to keep the good times rolling: they proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by ten) but on Saturday they proved they can win the close ones too. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Midland Trail and snuck past 11-9.
Meanwhile, Bridgeport suffered a tough 25-5 defeat at the hands of Catholic Central on Monday.
DANNY GOFF was cooking despite his team's loss, scoring a run while going 2-for-3. Another player making a difference was JAKI THREET, who went 1-for-1 with two stolen bases and an RBI.
Paden City has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season. As for Bridgeport, their loss dropped their record down to 0-9.
Paden City took their win against Bridgeport in their previous meeting back in March by a conclusive 8-2. One of the biggest obstacles the team faced in that game was GOFF, who went 3-for-3 with two doubles, a triple, and a run. Now that he's got a second chance to win this matchup, will Paden City still be able to contain GOFF? There's only one way to find out.
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