COLLEGE BASEBALL: USC GETS LOST IN THE FOG AT THE BEACH LONG BEACH ST. 4, USC 2.Byline: Heather Gripp Staff Writer LONG BEACH - The largest regular-season crowd at Blair Field Blair Field is a stadium in Long Beach, California. It originally opened in 1956 and is primarily used for baseball. It holds 3,238 people. Located in Recreation Park, Blair Field is one of the few semi-professional baseball facilities in California. turned out Friday to see a season-opening duel duel, prearranged armed fight with deadly weapons, usually swords or pistols, between two persons concerned with a point of honor. The duel may have originated in the wager of battle, an early mode of trial in which an accused person fought with his accuser under between preseason All-Americans Ian Kennedy For the British academic, lawyer and bioethicist, see . Ian Patrick Kennedy (born December 19, 1984 in Long Beach, CA) is a right-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He is 6' 0" tall, and weighs 190 pounds. and Jared Hughes. But what couldn't be seen turned out to be the bigger story in the showdown between nationally ranked opponents USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. and Long Beach State. Playing in fog that at times was so dense that the outfielders could barely been seen from near home plate, USC right fielder right fielder n. Baseball The player who defends right field. Noun 1. right fielder - the person who plays right field outfielder - (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield Roberto Lopez struggled to find back-to-back flyballs that drove in the deciding runs in a 4-2 Long Beach State victory in front of a sellout-crowd of 3,189. Kennedy held the Dirtbags to one hit through five innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. before Danny Espionoza's two-out fly to shallow right dropped in to start the sixth-inning, fog-aided rally. Sean Boatright drove in the tying runs on a fly to right that dropped untouched for a double. Brandon Godfrey followed with an almost identical double that left Lopez turning and looking around for the ball as Boatright scored. Potentially even more costly for the Trojans was a seventh-inning injury to reliever Josh Fogel. The junior right-hander lasted just two pitches as he slipped off the mound during his delivery and left the game with an undetermined elbow injury, the latest setback in an injury-plagued career that has included Tommy John surgery Tommy John surgery, known by doctors as ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction (or UCL), is a surgical procedure in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body (often from the forearm, hamstring, knee, or foot of the . Kennedy and Hughes were the story for the first five innings. Kennedy didn't allow a hit until a fourth-inning triple by Evan Longoria For the actress with a similar name, see Eva Longoria. Evan Longoria (born October 7, 1985 in Downey, California) is a prospect in the Tampa Bay Devil Rays organization. that was just out the reach of diving center fielder Darin Vieira. But Kennedy retired the next two batters to preserve the shutout and drew a standing ovation from the USC fans. Kennedy (0-1) allowed five hits, one walk and three runs in six innings. Hughes (1-0) was just as effective after having allowed the first four batters of the game to reach base. The junior right-hander retired the next 12 batters before Lopez ended the streak with a fifth-inning single. Hughes held the Trojans to three hits with three walks and three strikeouts in six innings. USC took the lead in the first with two runs on three walks and a single. A bases-loaded walk to Cyle Hankerd brought in the first run and added its second run on a double-play grounder by Lucas Duda. Heather Gripp, (818) 713-3607 heather.gripp(at)dailynews.com |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion