BASEBALL BEAT: TUMULT STRIKES OFF-FIELD : ALLEN'S RETURN SHOULD BE HELP.Byline: Gerry Gittelson Daily News Staff Writer It has been a tumultuous month for the Quartz Hill High baseball team. And we're not even including a forgettable for·get·ta·ble adj. Fit or apt to be forgotten: a movie with very forgettable characters. Adj. 1. forgettable - easily forgotten unforgettable - impossible to forget on-field performance that has seen the Rebels win just two of their past 10 games. Three weeks ago, leadoff hitter In baseball, a leadoff hitter is a batter who bats first in the lineup. Strategy Leadoff hitters must possess certain traits to be successful: they must reach base at a proficient rate and be able to steal bases. Brady Robbins flipped his car on a rainy stretch of Godde Pass during an El Nino storm. Miraculously, he walked away unscratched. Just recently, ace pitcher Travis Allen was not so lucky. During a meaningless scrimmage slide into second base, the hard-throwing right-hander - who has just two at-bats this season - badly dislocated dis·lo·cate tr.v. dis·lo·cat·ed, dis·lo·cat·ing, dis·lo·cates 1. To put out of usual or proper place, position, or relationship. 2. a finger on his non-pitching hand. The finger is in a splint splint, rigid or semiflexible device for the immobilization of displaced or fractured parts of the body. Most commonly employed for fractures of bones, a splint may be a first-aid measure that allows the patient to be moved without displacing the injured part, or it and the hand is in a cast - for the second straight season. (Allen broke his pitching hand in a non-baseball accident last year and missed almost all of his sophomore season.) ``The finger looked pretty bad at the time,'' coach Dave Stradling said. ``It was ugly. One finger was bent all the way over to the side.'' Allen is enthusiastic about returning and says the cast will be removed soon and he should be pitching again by the end of next week. Allen's return will be welcomed. He has 36 strikeouts in 32 innings with a 3.71 ERA. Add Quartz Hill: Streaky streak·y adj. streak·i·er, streak·i·est 1. Marked with, characterized by, or occurring in streaks. 2. Variable or uneven in character or quality. shortstop Parker Mentheny's on-again, off-again on-a·gain, off-a·gain adj. Informal Existing or continuing sporadically; intermittent or occasional: an on-again, off-again correspondence. season appears to be back on track. He smacked two center-field home runs in his first two at-bats against Palmdale, giving him five homers in 50 at-bats. He entered batting just .250. Last add Quartz Hill: USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. is recruiting first baseman Ryan West, who leads the region with nine home runs. Palmdale: Looking at the mostly undersized undersized see dwarfism, runt. Falcons, it's surprising how much pop they have in their bats. But Palmdale (13-4, 8-0) showed no signs of slowing down in a 13-4 mercy-win at Quartz Hill on Wednesday. The Falcons meant business from the onset. Chris Testa led off with a triple, and two walks later center fielder Mike Arellano rocked an impressive grand slam that had nothing to do with the outgoing wind. Arellano added a single and two-run triple in his next at-bats. The senior finally appears back in form after recovering from a broken wrist last season that interupted a .562 season. Meanwhile, if and when the Falcons are embattled in a close game, the team has a nifty weapon in pinch-hitter Nick Carrillo. Carrillo, a stocky 250-pound football convert, is batting .778 (7 for 9) as a pinch-hitter. How is he doing it? ``By not thinking about it,'' he says. ``I just see the ball and hit the ball. Simple as that.'' Paraclete: The High Desert League Spirits (13-0, 3-0) are Southern California's only remaining undefeated team. And the wins have been convincing, including Tuesday's 18-0 whitewash whitewash, white fluid commonly used as an inexpensive, impermanent coating for walls, fences, stables, and other exterior structures. It varies in composition, being generally a mixture of lime (quicklime), water, flour, salt, glue, and whiting, with other over host Desert. Matt Parris (5-0) pitched a five-inning complete game, allowing two singles. Sophomore Jason Brown, best known as the area's only pitcher who has yet to yield an earned run, showed he also has an impressive stick. He went 2 for 3 with a home run and three RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in . CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Palmdale High School's Mike Arellano hit a grand slam against Quartz Hill. He also had a triple. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News (2) Quartz Hill pitcher Travis Allen suffered an injury to a finger on his non-pitching hand in an auto accident. The cast will be removed soon. John Lazar/Special to the Daily News |
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