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An injury to Cabrillo’s Ramiro Rosalez and some hot hitting by Millikan turned what looked like a low-scorer into a mercy-rule win for the Rams, 21-0. <\/span>After two innings it was scoreless at the Cabrillo campus field, and the game had the feel of Cabrillo’s opener against Poly, when Jags starter Ramiro Rosalez held the Rabbits scoreless through 6. <\/span>“Yeah, he was throwing whatever pitches he wanted, in any count, for strikes,” said Millikan coach Scott Glasser after the game, shaking his head.<\/p>\n But fans were robbed of a tight finish in the top of the third, with one out, when Rosalez threw heat and “felt something pop,” according to his coach, Eric Bryant. <\/span>A frustrated Rosalez came off the mound, and Millikan perked up. <\/span>A four-pitch walk of Jackson Woodbury and an error to put Paul Slater on base set up a one-run single by Avery Flores, and then a just-enough homerun by Josh Frye over the left field fence, to make it 4-0. <\/span>Adam Annella added another homerun that inning\u2014this one with more than enough length to make it 6-0. <\/span>Millikan added 8 runs in the fourth and 7 runs in the fifth to finish the mercy rule victory. <\/span>Cabrillo used five pitchers after the injury, walking eight batters. In the other dugout, Millikan got a great game from their number two guy, Matt Clampitt, who scattered four hits over four shutout innings, striking out four and staying calm with runners on. <\/span>“That’s why he’s our number two,” said Glasser, who credited Frye’s homerun with putting a spark in the team. <\/span>“He led us again. <\/span>He hit that homerun, everybody seemed to loosen up. <\/span>We got a few hits and it got contagious.” <\/span>The win puts Millikan back on track, as they balance the books at 2-2 headed into the Spring Break hiatus, with Compton and Jordan up next. <\/span>Cabrillo falls to 0-4, and will see Jordan and Wilson next. Bryant said Rosalez will get an MRI to determine the extent of the shoulder injury. <\/span>“It did look like it was going that route,” Bryant said when asked to compare Rosalez’s control to the Poly game. <\/span>“We just need guys who can be ready to fill in behind him.” For Millikan, it was an offensive performance that was exactly what they needed, whose 21 runs matched their total from their last six games. <\/span>Glasser said he thought his team had more extra-base hits on Friday than they’d had the whole year to that point. <\/span>“And we were hitting, too,” he pointed out, “it’s not like they were making a ton of errors.” Come back tomorrow for Moore League standings, and be respectful in the comment section.<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An injury to Cabrillo’s starting pitcher and some hot hitting by Millikan turned what looked like a low-scorer into a mercy-rule win for the Rams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=1573"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}