ANOTHER QUALITY START FOR JETHAWKS' MOCK JETHAWKS 8, HIGH DESERT 2.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - Through his first four starts, Garrett Mock Garrett Lee Mock, born April 25, 1983, in Houston, Texas, is a North American professional baseball player. He is a right-handed pitching prospect in the Washington Nationals organization. was the JetHawks' staff ace in name only. He's since proven himself to be one of the California League's most effective starters, and he was at his best Saturday in an 8-2 victory over prospect-laden High Desert in front of 1,814 at Clear Channel Stadium. A 2004 third-round draft pick out of University of Houston (ranked 11th among the JetHawks' parent Arizona Diamondbacks' top organizational prospects by Baseball America  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . ), Mock (3-2) allowed two runs on six hits in eight innings for his fourth consecutive quality start. He struck out eight batters and walked two. After allowing solo homers in the second and third innings, he got stronger as the game progressed. He hit 94 mph on the radar gun radar gun n. A usually hand-held device that measures the velocity of a moving object by sending out a continuous radio wave and measuring the frequency of reflected waves. in the eighth inning after sitting in the low-90 mph range most of the game. The timing of Mock's dominant outing couldn't have been better for the JetHawks (18-18), who had lost four of their previous five games. High Desert (20-15), which led the Southern Division by two games heading into Saturday, had won seven of its previous nine. ``Just what the doctor ordered,'' JetHawks manager Bill Plummer William Francis Plummer (born March 21, 1947 in Oakland, CA) was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and the Seattle Mariners. While never a regular player (he was Johnny Bench's backup catcher during the Big Red Machine years), he did play solid defense. said. ``Mock was great today. He kept us in the ballgame, and this is a big win for us against a first-place team.'' Steve Garrabrants homered to lead off a three-run first inning for Lancaster off High Desert starter Dusty Hughes Dusty Hughes is
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Miguel Montero was 1 for 4, extending his hitting streak to 10 games, and Alex Frazier was 0 for 4, ending an 11-game hitting streak. --Roster move: The Diamondbacks traded JetHawks outfielder Jon Kaplan to the St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see . The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. . Shortstop Danny Richar will be activated today after spending a week on the disabled list (mild concussion). Gideon Rubin, (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com |
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