Rob Cortez turned in his biggest game of the season on Thursday, striking out 15 batters over seven innings while giving up just one earned (and two unearned) runs off four hits. As if that's not impressive enough, the pitching appearance was his third in a row with more than eight strikeouts. For the season, Cortez has an ERA of 4.57 over 30.7 innings pitched.
Cortez and Grant will look to defend their home field on Friday against Colfax at 4:00 p.m. Cortez has dominated as far as walks are concerned (he's averaged 1.2 per game this season), but he's got his work cut out for him considering Colfax has only allowed 4.4 per game this season.
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