BAD INNING COSTLY FOR JETHAWKS HIGH DESERT 6, JETHAWKS 4.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - On a night when the JetHawks honored a former major-league pitcher with local ties, a rare pitcher's duel A pitcher's duel is a term commonly used in baseball when two pitchers face each other and give up very few runs keeping a very close and low scoring game. broke out on a windy night in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley . At least for three innings. Then the game returned to relative normalcy nor·mal·cy n. Normality. Noun 1. normalcy - being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning normality at homer-happy Lancaster Municipal Stadium. The JetHawks went on to suffer a 6-4 loss to the High Desert Mavericks The High Desert Mavericks are a minor league baseball team in Adelanto, California, USA. Their Major League parent club is the Seattle Mariners. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and had been a farm team of the Kansas City Royals since 2005 before the switch. in front of 2,323 at Lancaster Municipal Stadium Friday on Jim Slaton A lifelong Antelope Valley resident who's now a Seattle Mariners roving pitching coordinator, Slaton played for Antelope Valley High of Lancaster and Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. before signing with the then-Seattle Pilots in 1969. The Pilots moved to Milwaukee and changed their name to the Brewers. He was a JetHawks pitching coach from 1997-98. And pitching was the theme of the early part of the game, with JetHawks starter Adam Bass (2-2) and Mavericks starter Eric Henderson (1-2) combining to retire 20 of the first 22 batters. The game's complexion changed when Jarred Ball broke a scoreless deadlock with the first of his two homers in the fourth, a solo shot off the scoreboard in left-center field in a two-run inning. Ball also hit a majestic 425-foot solo homer to left onto Ave. I in the sixth. The Mavericks finally got to Bass in the fifth, scoring five runs on seven hits, five of which came in succession starting with a Froilan Villanueva solo homer. ``He was pitching a one-hitter for four innings, and then he just kind of fell apart there,'' JetHawks manager Wally Backman said. ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what happened.'' JetHawks outfielder Carlos Quentin was 0 for 4, ending a streak of 19 consecutive games in which he had reached base safely. --Matchup: Left-hander Keith Whatley (1-2, 5.33 ERA) will pitch for the JetHawks when they play host to High Desert tonight at 6:30 p.m. Left-hander Manny Parra will pitch for the Mavericks. Gideon Rubin (818)713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT - Justin Frank |
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