JETHAWKS RALLY FOR GAME 1 WIN JETHAWKS 8, HIGH DESERT 5.Byline: -Gideon Rubin LANCASTER - Throughout the JetHawks' late-season surge, manager Bill Plummer William Francis Plummer (born March 21, 1947 in Oakland, CA) was a catcher for the Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, and the Seattle Mariners. While never a regular player (he was Johnny Bench's backup catcher during the Big Red Machine years), he did play solid defense. has been telling anyone who will listen that his team's greatest strength is that it doesn't rely on any single individual, that, from one day to the next, it's somebody else who steps up to pick up the team in key situations. Alex Frazier was that somebody Wednesday. The JetHawks slugging For the baseball statistic, see Slugging average. Slugging is the practice of forming ad-hoc, informal carpools for purposes of commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. outfielder's grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. in the seventh inning led Lancaster to a dramatic 8-5 victory over High Desert in Game 1 of the Southern Division's best-of-three divisional playoff in front of 737 at Clear Channel Stadium. The series moves to Adelanto for Game 2 tonight at 7. The JetHawks rallied with five runs in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat , highlighted by Frazier's slam, a mammoth 430-plus foot shot to left-center field that came on the first pitch he saw from High Desert starter Patrick Green Patrick Green VC (1824- 19 July 1889) was born in Ballinasloe, County Galway and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. (0-1). ''You can't come up much more clutch than that,'' JetHawks outfielder Steve Garrabrants said. |
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