PREP BASEBALL PLAYOFFS: CANYON HIGH PITCHERS ARE GRADED ON THE CURVE : TIME IN BULLPEN PAYS OFF FOR COWBOYS' MUNN.Byline: Scott Magoloff Daily News Staff Writer After sophomore pitcher Chris Seddon Christopher Jon Seddon (born October 13, 1983 in Northridge, California) is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Florida Marlins. He was called up and made his Major League debut on September 3, 2007. External links
n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. victory in six years, it will be up to senior Mike Munn to keep the Cowboys alive in the postseason. Munn (4-3, 4.31 ERA) will start today's second-round Division II game at Damien, a team Munn knows little about except that it is favored to win. ``I don't think I have anything to lose; they're supposed to be really good,'' he said Sunday. ``There's nothing I can do but pitch. I'm kind of anxious, actually.'' Munn and the Cowboys (13-11) might not be in this position were it not for the improvements he worked on during the regular season. Although expected to be the staff ace from the first day of practice, Munn struggled throughout the first half of the year. ``None of my pitches were working; I was forced to throw fastballs,'' he said. ``People were teeing off on it. Now I have the offspeed and curve and I can mix it up. It used to be fastball, fastball, fastball.'' The results were evident in Munn's 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. total in his last three starts of the regular season. He struck out six in three innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. of the season finale against Burbank (he was pulled because the game had no playoff implications), and sat down 10 each in games against Burroughs and Saugus. Munn has 56 strikeouts in 39 innings this season. The improvements came from hard work in the bullpen, where he relearned his curve. He now relies on it as his out pitch. ``I knew if I wasn't going to get pitches over sooner or later, it was going to be a long season,'' Munn said. The season will go longer on a positive note if Munn's curve is on against Damien. ``I just want to go as far as I can; I've never gotten a shot at this,'' he said. Needle and thread, please: Hart, which defeated Arroyo 13-3 in the first round of the playoffs on Friday, might be without left fielder Marke Horvat for its second-round game against Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. today. Coach Bud Murray was to learn Horvat's status at practice on Monday. The junior cut his hand severely during Friday's game. He was leading off at first, dived back to the bag to beat a pickoff pick·off n. 1. Baseball A play in which a runner is caught off base and is put out by a quick throw, as from the pitcher or catcher. 2. Sports An interception, as in football. attempt and took the first baseman's spikes in his hand. The wound required 17 stitches in two layers because of the cut's depth and positioning between the knuckles. There was no tendon tendon, tough cord composed of closely packed white fibers of connective tissue that serves to attach muscles to internal structures such as bones or other muscles. or ligament ligament (lĭg`əmənt), strong band of white fibrous connective tissue that joins bones to other bones or to cartilage in the joint areas. The bundles of collagenous fibers that form ligaments tend to be pliable but not elastic. damage. ``That big first baseman blocked him off the base and got called for obstruction,'' Murray said. ``He should have got kicked out. The umpire thought it was an accident, but it wasn't.'' Horvat was batting .306 with 24 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 , fourth-highest on the team. On the mound: Junior Jamie Shields will get the start for Hart (21-4) in today's second-round home playoff game Noun 1. playoff game - one game in the series of games constituting a playoff game - a single play of a sport or other contest; "the game lasted two hours" playoff - any final competition to determine a championship against Santa Barbara (20-4). Deciding which pitcher to start in the first-round game had to be enjoyable for Murray. Pitching was Hart's weakness last year, when it lost 9-7 in the first round. Justin Wiley (10-1) and Shields (6-0) were considered, but Murray went with Wiley, the senior, because of his work this season. ``He's not as talented as Jamie, but he's really consistent,'' Murray said. Shields will bring his season total of 83 strikeouts in 46-2/3 innings into today's game. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO (Color) Jamie Shields gets the start today in second-round action when Hart hosts Santa Barbara. Shields has 83 strikeouts in 46-2/3 innings. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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