Riverside for three

Riverside lead by two and a half games, and they took two of three at Kettle Lane last month, so nobody in the main stand is calling this a formality. Win the series and we go home a game and a half behind. Lose it and the conversation on the bus turns to next year.

Castellanos starts Friday on full rest, which is the best news of the week: two runs in his last fourteen innings. Whitaker goes Saturday. Sunday is Brandvold, and June will be watching that one through her fingers.

Probable starters

Their side

Delacroix pitches Friday for Riverside, and he has beaten us twice this year without letting a run in. Their lineup is the same one that scored four on us in the rain: patient, slow, happy to walk. The Mudcats lead the league in walks drawn by some distance, so a starter who throws strikes is worth more on Ferry Road than one who throws hard.

Getting there

First pitch 19:05 each night, 13:05 on Sunday. The away block is sections 18 and 19 down the third-base line, and the guide from last month still holds: Riverside for three nights, with the trains, the bus back and the one kiosk that sells anything hot.