BAKER BASEBALL: Bulldogs’ season ends with 1-0 loss at Gladstone
Published 7:06 pm Thursday, May 22, 2025
- Baker's Jake McClaughry pitches against La Grande on May 2, 2025. (Jayson Jacoby/Baker City Herald)
GLADSTONE — Baker’s baseball season ended with a 1-0 loss at Gladstone in a Class 4A play-in game Thursday, May 22.
Baker coach Tim Smith said Bulldog ace Jake McClaughry “threw great” against the Gladiators.
McClaughry allowed just two hits in six innings, striking out four.
Smith said Baker had runners in scoring position multiple times but couldn’t get a key hit.
Gladstone pitcher Collin Smith went all seven innings, yielding three hits and striking out nine.
Zane Morgan led off the fifth with a single, and he advanced to second on Clay Stevens’ sacrifice bunt. Ethan Fletcher walked to put runners on first and second, but the Bulldogs couldn’t capitalize.
Baker finished the season with a 14-10 record.
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