{"id":16221,"date":"2011-05-06T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16221"},"modified":"2011-05-06T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T19:00:42","slug":"freshman-lead-braves-over-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=16221","title":{"rendered":"Freshmen Lead Braves over Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Baldwin Park's Ryan Dominguez picked up the save <\/p><\/div>\n

By Corey Kwok<\/p>\n

(Baldwin Park) – Freshmen Timothy Wells and Jordan Palacio came through in the clutch in the fourth and sixth innings, combining to deliver all three Baldwin Park runs to lead the Braves to a 3-2 win over Wilson Thursday in Valle Vista League action.<\/p>\n

The Braves, mixed in a strong six innings from pitcher Eddie Gutierrez (4 hits, 2 runs-unearned) with two pickoffs and support from a gritty defense that wheeled three consecutive double plays to pick up the victory.<\/p>\n

Baldwin Park improved to 5-5 in league and kept its playoff hopes alive.<\/p>\n

Wilson’s Steven Baltierra put on a gritty performance on the mound to keep the Wildcats in the game but it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

Wilson safely landed 4 of their first 5 batters in the first inning but squeezed out only one run. Shane Miller took the game’s first pitch for a double to right-center before moving to third and scoring as a double play throw to third base from first flew off the mark.<\/p>\n

Baldwin Park went ahead the first time around in its half of the fourth. Fernando Gonzalez singled to left and arrived at second on a sacrifice bunt by Alejandro Natividad before being picked up as Wells bounced a double over the left fielder to tie the score 1-1. Wells in turn was delivered with a sun-aided long RBI single to right by Palacio, and the Braves led 2-1 into the fifth.<\/p>\n

Patrick Higashi led off the sixth for Wilson and reached safely as his slow roller to first was misplayed before a Brandon Chung bunt and passed ball set him up to score and tie it up 2-2 on Adam Vasquez’s gapper to shallow center.<\/p>\n

Natividad led off with a single in the sixth and was pinch-ran by Ryan Cruz, who moved on Eric Sanchez’ sacrifice before scoring the eventual game winner on a long base hit to left by Wells.<\/p>\n

Ryan Dominguez arrived in the seventh to close for the Braves and allowed a walk and single with two outs before earning his second save of the season when a runner going to third was fooled by an apparent wild pitch that catcher Andrew Valles recovered and threw to Palacio for the last out of the game.<\/p>\n

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W: Baltierra – Adam Ramos<\/p>\n

BP: Gutierrez, Dominguez (7) – Valles<\/p>\n

Doubles-BP (1): Wells<\/p>\n

Doubles-Wilson (2): Miller and Baltierra<\/p>\n

W – Gutierrez (6-2); Save — Dominguez (2)<\/p>\n

L – Baltierra (3-6)<\/p>\n

Baldwin Park 12-11 \/ 5-5 league<\/p>\n

Wilson 5-11 \/ 3-7 league<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Corey Kwok (Baldwin Park) – Freshmen Timothy Wells and Jordan Palacio came through in the clutch in the fourth and sixth innings, combining to deliver all three Baldwin Park runs to lead the Braves to a 3-2 win over Wilson Thursday in Valle Vista League action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5286,5057,4901,5285,2828,4898,426,4900,5284,5287,2832,5283,5282,5281],"class_list":["post-16221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-adam-vasquez","tag-alejandro-natividad","tag-andrew-valles","tag-brandon-chung","tag-eddie-gutierrez","tag-eric-sanchez","tag-fernando-gonzalez","tag-jordan-palacio","tag-patrick-higashi","tag-ryan-cruz","tag-ryan-dominguez","tag-shane-miller","tag-steven-baltierra","tag-timothy-wells"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16221\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}