{"id":32009,"date":"2013-04-06T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T07:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32009"},"modified":"2013-04-06T23:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T06:20:52","slug":"pasadena-zeroes-in-on-hoover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=32009","title":{"rendered":"Pasadena Zeroes in on Hoover"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2520\">By Corey Kowk<\/div>\n<div>(Glendale) &#8211; Pasadena racked up five runs\u00a0in the third inning, and another of four in the sixth en route to a 9-0 shutout against Hoover in Pacific League action Friday.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2524\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2525\"><!--more-->Andrew Lathouwers broke through with a one-out bases-loaded two run double high off the right field fence that picked up Frankie Garriola and Sumner Smith, before Brian Blackburn scored on a sacrifice flyout from Danny Richman to make it 3-0. Both Lathowers, and Chance Cobb, later scored on a two run single by Calvin Christiansen which extended the lead to 5-0.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2550\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2549\">Pasadena jumped on relief LHP Thomas Hall for four in the sixth to put it away. Alex Baer had a drive to second that was errantly handled and allowed Sergio Rey to score, before Smith laced an RBI single. Blackburn and Lathouwers grounded out for RBI&#8217;s to bookend scoring for PHS.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2548\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2543\">Patrick Saucedo (4 IP, RHP) and Lathouwers (2 IP, RHP) combined for six shutout, and no hit innings, with Saucedo earning the win. Hoover broke up the Bulldog no-hitter in the seventh as three of its first four batters registered singles. LHP Nick Mostacero, starting the inning, got a bloop-out, hosed a runner heading towards third, and withstood back to back hits before getting a strikeout to end the game.<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2544\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2545\">Pasadena improved to 9-6 overall and will cruise into a crucial stretch of league play next week with a 2-1 record, as a Tuesday road matchup at Burbank, and a Friday homestand versus Crescenta Valley, follow. Both games are slated for a 3:30pm start,<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2546\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_7_2_1_1365232391266_2547\">Hoover, under first year and former St. Francis head coach Brian Esquival, fell to 1-9 with its sixth straight loss, but played CV tough to a 7-2 loss last Friday with Fidel Hernandez hitting a two run HR in that game.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Corey Kowk (Glendale) &#8211; Pasadena racked up five runs\u00a0in the third inning, and another of four in the sixth en route to a 9-0 shutout against Hoover in Pacific League action Friday.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-32009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32009","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=32009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32019,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32009\/revisions\/32019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}