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DOWN 10, JETHAWKS RALLY TO WIN : JETHAWKS 20, BAKERSFIELD 17.


Byline: Chris Cocoles Daily News Staff Writer

Pitchers from both the JetHawks and Bakersfield Blaze The Bakersfield Blaze are a minor league baseball team in Bakersfield, California, USA. They are a "high-A" class team in the California League, and are a farm team of the Texas Rangers. The Bakersfield Blaze play home games at Sam Lynn Ballpark.  wish they could have just taken Tuesday night off.

The JetHawks scored 12 times in the bottom of the seventh 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.
 to make a 17-7 deficit disappear and pull off 20-17 win.

Sixteen JetHawks batted in the eighth inning. There were 10 hits, one walk, a hit batter and a strikeout strike·out  
n. Baseball Abbr. K or SO
An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes.

Noun 1.
 that advanced a runner to first on a wild pitch.

Shawn Buhner, Mike Martin and Joel Ramirez each had two hits: in the eighth inning alone. Ramirez and Wathan both had two-run homers in the frame.

The inning should have ended with a Dennys Gomez strikeout of Joe Mathis, but the ball eluded Blaze catcher Yolvit Torrealba and went the backstop, scoring Carlos Villalobos to cut the lead to 17-12.

Denny Bonilla (2-3) picked up the win, pitching scoreless innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31.  in both the eighth and ninth.

While the JetHawks padded their .292 average, the Blaze looked like anything but a .254-hitting team in front of 3,019 fans.

JETHAWKS UPDATE

Little glove helps Buhner: JetHawks first baseman Shawn Buhner fields ground balls in infield practice with a tiny glove that seems to be stuck in a time warp time warp
n.
A hypothetical discontinuity or distortion occurring in the flow of time that would move events from one time period to another or suspend the passage of time.
 from the 1920s.

``It allows me to stay down on the ball,'' said Buhner, who attended a coach's clinic in Tennessee in the offseason when he stumbled onto the glove.

``These two guys who used to play with the St. Louis Cardinals For the National Football League team that played in St. Louis from 1960 to 1987, see .
The St. Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards" or "the Redbirds") are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri.
 designed the glove and were there, so I bought one from them.''Buhner's toy has helped him take over the every day first-base job in recent games.

Tonight's pitching matchup: In the second game of a three-game series at 7:15 p.m., the JetHawks send Rob Luce (4-0, 2.48) against Bakersfield's Jason Grote (2-2, 2.52)

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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Apr 30, 1997
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