CITY BASEBALL PLAYOFFS: KRACOW'S DOUBLE PUTS CHATSWORTH INTO SEMIFINALS.Byline: Daily News Roosevelt High hit two late home runs to make the game a lot closer than Chatsworth wanted, but Steve Kracow's run-scoring double in the bottom of seventh rescued the No. 1 Chancellors 5-4 Thursday at Chatsworth. Chatsworth (25-3) meets South Gate in the City Championship semifinals Tuesday. Kracow's opposite-field hit off reliever Frank Arteaga (4-1) scored Matt Fisher. Kracow was 4 for 4 with two doubles, a triple 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 . Arteaga, the No. 9 hitter in the lineup who entered with a .214 batting average batting average n. Baseball A measure of a batter's performance obtained by dividing the total of base hits by the number of times at bat, not including walks. Noun 1. , hit his first home run of the season with two outs in the top of seventh to tie the game 4-4. Antonio Gonzalez Antonio Gonzalez (died 1637) is a Roman Catholic martyr and saint Born in Leon, Spain, he entered the Dominican Order at the age of 16. His favorite saint was St. Peter of Verona, the Dominican proto martyr, thus his religious enthusiasm gave rise to his living desire for homered one inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. earlier to pull Roosevelt (19-5) to within one. ``I did good today, but Roosevelt really surprised me,'' Kracow said. ``I didn't think they'd battle back like that. I give them credit, but I think the better team won.'' Chatsworth reliever Mike Kunes (12-1) surrendered both home runs. Starter Scott Sellz went five strong innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. and allowed two hits, three walks and two earned runs earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team . Sellz hit his seventh home run of the season to give Chatsworth a 4-1 lead in the fifth. Southeastern Conference champion Roosevelt's winning streak Noun 1. winning streak - a streak of wins streak, run - an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" was snapped at 12 games. ``This was a very tough loss,'' said Arteaga, who pitched the last 4-2/3 innings. ``At least we hung in there and showed we could play with them. My first home run came at a good time, but I made too many mistakes pitching.'' Fisher (2 for 4) was Chatsworth's only player besides Kracow to have more than one hit. ``I had a feeling coming in that this would be a close game because I heard they were a scrappy scrap·py 1 adj. scrap·pi·er, scrap·pi·est Composed of scraps; fragmentary: scrappy evidence. scrap team,'' Fisher said. ``But I think our team has a lot of heart.'' - Gerry Gittelson Kennedy 10, Banning 9: Alex Avlas drove in three runs, and Jeremy Serr hit a three-run homer to lead the Golden Cougars past the host Pilots.By knocking out second-seeded Banning, Kennedy (18-15) will play in its sixth straight City semifinal. Kennedy led 10-3 entering the seventh and then had to hang on. Banning scored six runs and had the potential tying run at first. Reliever J.C. Sepulveda ended the rally when he struck out Mario Barrera on a fastball. Kennedy had 13 hits and handed Banning ace Rafael Sixtos (9-1) his only loss this season. Avlas had three hits, including two doubles. Serr, who homered to center to give Kennedy a 6-0 lead in the third, also added a single and threw out a runner at the plate to end a Banning rally in the fourth. - Bryan Rodgers |
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