Continuing a state-championship series on The Final Score podcast, coach Andy Baker, senior pitcher/third baseman Hunter Barnes and senior first baseman Brett Lucas from the Middletown High baseball team are this week's guests.

The Knights won the Class 2A baseball championship on May 25 with a 6-5 victory over Glenelg. It was their second state title in baseball and their first since 2017.

Host Greg Swatek talks to the guys about what made this team so close knit and why they were able to pull through in so many close games. Prior to their one-run victory in the state final, they beat Patuxent 2-1 on a suicide squeeze in a 13-inning state semifinal that ended close to midnight at McCurdy Field.

The guys talk about those memorable moments and the future of the program going forward with so many players graduating.

Prior to that conversation, FNP sports writer Alexander Dacy joins Greg to discuss the baseball state titles won by Middletown and Brunswick, Frederick County players currently playing and thriving in minor league baseball and a dramatic increase to athletic fees for Frederick County Public Schools.

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