AREA CODE GAMES: BAEZA MAKES STATEMENT.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer Eddie Baeza hasn't had many opportunities to show off his baseball skills this summer. He took advantage of the one he got last week, turning in one of the best performances at the week-long Area Code Games in Long Beach. Baeza, a senior right-hander from Poly (language) Poly - 1. A polymorphic, block-structured language developed by D.C.J. Matthews at Cambridge in the early 1980s. ["An Overview of the Poly Programming Language", D.C.J. Matthews, in Data Types and Persistence, M.P. Atkinson et al eds, Springer 1988]. 2. High of Sun Valley, did not play on a summer league team or participate in the many camps or showcases in which most of his fellow Area Code teammates have taken part this summer. When he finally got his chance to play in front of numerous scouts, Baeza allowed one hit in a combined five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. . ``This was huge,'' said Baeza, who had his junior season cut short by academic ineligibility INELIGIBILITY. The incapacity to be lawfully elected. 2. This incapacity arises from various, causes, and a person may be incapable of being elected to one office who may, be elected to another; the incapacity may also be perpetual or temporary. . He started Sunday's finale against the Rangers Rapidly deployable airborne light infantry organized and trained to conduct highly complex joint direct action operations in coordination with or in support of other special operations units of all Services. West and threw three hitless innings to combine with Oxnard's Alex Merricks and two other Area Code pitchers for an eight-inning no-hitter. Baeza walked two and allowed one run but struck out four, using offspeed pitches in the 60s to set up a fastball consistently clocked in the low 90s. Baeza also pitched two innings Thursday against the White Sox West and struck out three without any walks or runs. ``Before the first game, I got very nervous,'' he said. ``But after the first pitch, I was OK. I didn't see the scouts or anything when I was out there, all I saw was the glove glove, hand covering with a separate sheath for each finger. The earliest gloves, relics of the cave dwellers, closely resembled bags. Reaching to the elbow, they were most probably worn solely for protection and warmth. .'' |
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