2002 DAILY NEWS BERNIE MILLIGAN NOTEBOOK: SEVEN IS ENOUGH FOR BRAUN IN DERBY.Byline: Julio Cortez Staff Writer It didn't take long for Granada Hills High's Ryan Braun
Ryan Joseph Braun, nicknamed The Hebrew Hammer to show what he can do in the home run derby This is about the Major League Baseball contest. For the 1959 television show of the same name, see Home Run Derby (TV series). The Home Run Derby is an event played prior to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. at the 26th annual Daily News Bernie Milligan All-Star Game An all-star game is an exhibition game played by the best players in their sports league. The players are often chosen by a popular vote of fans of the sport and the game often occurs at the halfway point of the regular season, although this is not the case for some all-star games on Saturday at Birmingham High in Lake Balboa Balboa, town (1990 pop. 2,751), Colón prov., in the former Panama Canal Zone, on the Gulf of Panama. The port for Panama City, Balboa was the administrative headquarters of the Panama Canal Zone. It was also the site of a U.S. navy base (closed 1999). . Braun, who last week led his Highlanders to a City Section Invitational in·vi·ta·tion·al adj. Restricted to invited participants: an invitational golf tournament. n. An event, especially a sports tournament, restricted to invited participants. Adj. 1. bracket championship against Narbonne of Harbor City with a home run, started off Saturday by hitting four home runs early in the first round. He finished with six before hitting one more in the second round to beat Poly of Sun Valley's Eddie Baeza for the title. ``It was a lot of fun,'' said Braun, who is off to Miami on scholarship. ``I was trying to enjoy myself and fortunately I was able to come out with the victory.'' Baeza, who was drafted by the Dodgers this week after setting Poly's single-season school record for home runs with 11, had four homers in the first round and two more in the second Saturday but was edged by Braun's seventh homer, a towering shot to left. --Injured players lead West: Jesse Michel and Dusty Destler of El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Michel had surgery on his right shoulder last July and Destler had a fractured vertebrae Vertebrae Bones in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions of the body that make up the vertebral column. Vertebrae have a central foramen (hole), and their superposition makes up the vertebral canal that encloses the spinal cord. and a broken nose this season before the two led the Conquistadores to the City Section quarterfinals. ``I didn't let (the injuries) bother me because I was so eager to get out there,'' said Destler, who batted .369 and made only one error during the season. ``I wasn't going to let that stop me.'' --Geery finds home: When Adam Geery of Kennedy of Granada Hills got a phone call notifying him of his selection to the all-star game, he thought he was on the West roster. What made it confusing was that Kennedy High is near the imaginary division line between East and West. Still, Geery said he was just happy to be part of the game. ``I used to play with (Geery) back in the day,'' said Cleveland of Reseda's Adam McLeod, who would have been Geery's teammate in the West team. ``We played on the same team in T-ball. He was one of the best out there. We lost touch over the years, but it's good to see him out here again.'' CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Ryan Braun connects during the home run derby Saturday at the Bernie Milligan All-Star Game. He won with seven homers. Michael Owen
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