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Tartars, Smith Shine Again By Adam Serrao We have all heard of the ace pitcher in the game of baseball. Los Angeles Dodgers fans are fortunate to have one of their own in Clayton Kershaw; the Detroit Tigers have Justin Verlander; and the Seattle Mariners have Felix Hernandez. Our city’s very own Torrance Tartars seem to have found an ace of their own this year and are confident that they will get a victory every time he takes the mound. Kyle Smith is that ace for the Tartars and has been virtually unbeatable all season long. Last Wednesday night at Kendall Field in Torrance, that trend continued. Allowing only one run in seven innings of work, Smith helped t get his team a 4-1 Pioneer League victory over the visiting rival El Segundo Eagles. While Smith was dealing all afternoon long, the Torrance offense did its part to back him with enough runs to take a lead in the game comfortably. In the bottom of the second inning that Tartars struck first and scored a run without even getting a hit. Hunter Lewis, the starting pitcher for El Segundo, struggled with his command early on. In the second inning he hit two batters and walked two more to give the Tartars their first run and their first lead of the game. It was more of the same in the third inning as another walk and this time, an error, gave Torrance their second run of the game to make it 2-0. The bats finally got a chance to fly in the fifth inning when Ryan Eastburn doubled to right-field and Smith helped his own cause with a pop-fly single that scored Eastburn from second base to give the team a 3-0 advantage. It wasn’t until the sixth inning that El Segundo got something going. A single and a double had runners on first and third against Smith, who then surrendered a sacrifice fly to Connor Underwood to give up the shutout. “Smith didn’t have his best stuff, but he had good stuff,” Torrance head coach, Ollie Turner explained. “He just has good poise and good mound presence and he battled well.” Even Smith believes he struggled a bit on the afternoon. “I wasn’t really on tonight,” Smith said, “but I was able to get the help of my defense and make the pitches when I needed them. I didn’t have really good control of my fastball, but luckily I was able to get my off-speed over when I needed to.” Through Smith’s apparent struggles, the ace gave up only five hits and struck out nine in the complete game victory to improve to 6-1 on the year. The Tartars were able to rally with nine hits and 11 runs in the next game, last Friday afternoon against El Segundo and their ace, Willem Mostert who was 6-1 (now 6-2) on the year as well. With the two straight victories and series sweep, the Tartars (14-8, 3-1) were able to overtake the Eagles (11-10, 2-1) for first place in the Pioneer League standings. A battle against the last place Centennial Apaches awaits coach Turner and company as the Tartars look to pad their record and take control of the Pioneer League crown this season. The team that handed the Tartars their sole Pioneer League loss thus far this season was in action last week against the Lawndale Cardinals. The South High Spartans ace, Matt Mogollon, was on the mound and did his usual work, allowing just one run on two hits and struck out seven batters in six innings of work last Wednesday afternoon at South High. With three runs in the second inning, two in the third, and two in the fourth, the Spartans offensive explosion was enough to help them cruise to a 8-1 victory over visiting Pioneer League opponent, Lawndale. Sam Camacho and Kyle Henmi led the way on offense for South, each scoring two runs en route to the victory. The West High Warriors have been streaking since league play started. Coming off of a two-game sweep over league rival Mira Costa and non-league victory over St. Bernard, the Warriors welcomed Palos Verdes Peninsula to town and were unfortunately brought back down to earth. Two runs in the bottom of the second inning were all West could muster as they surrendered that broke a 2-2 tie and ultimately gave the Peninsula Panthers the victory last Wednesday afternoon on the road. West responded in the second of back-to-backs against the Panthers, however, though they trailed for almost the entire game. Down 2-1 in the bottom of the seventh and final inning, the Warriors were able to tie things up and send the game to extra innings. In the top of the ninth, the Warriors (11-10, 5-6) sealed the victory with one run for the 3-2 win. The Warriors are currently tied for first place in the Bay League standings with the very same Peninsula Panthers. The North High Saxons took a week off from league play last week and took on the visiting Royal Highlanders from Simi Valley. North scored first in the game, getting on the board in the first inning for an early 1-0 lead. A home run, two RBI’s and two runs scored from opposing center fielder Jake Edwards, however, got Royal rolling in the middle innings of the game. Jacob Peck had a triple, a run scored and two RBI’s, Jon Narimatsu went 2-for-2 with a walk, a double and two runs and Gota Tamasaki drove in three runs on a 2-for-4 effort, but it wasn’t enough to overcomes the seven run output by Royal. With their 7-5 loss, North dropped to 8-11 (2-2 league) on the year and into fourth place overall in the Pioneer League standings. • The Family Value Combo 2 (5 oz.) Filet Mignons 2 (5 oz.) Top Sirloins 4 Boneless Chicken Breasts (1 lb. pkg.) 4 (4 oz.) 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Despite Major League Baseball’s clear stance on the use of illegal substances in the game, however, most players and coaches didn’t seem to mind. Many instances of cheating have arisen throughout the years in the game of baseball, but while drugs like steroids and HGH are so heavily frowned upon, substances like pine tar have recently seemed to have been given a pass by both players and fans alike. Once officially caught, Pineda was suspended 10 games by Major League Baseball “for possessing a foreign substance on his person.” 10 games may, at first, seem to be a little excessive, but as Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations Joe Torre stated, “We just felt that, with the ten games, it was necessary for him to miss two starts instead of just one.” On top of the suspension, however, Pineda should have been more embarrassed than anything. Just a week and half prior, in an April 10th game against the Red Sox, Pineda had attracted the opposing team’s attention by using a substance that looked eerily similar to pine tar on his mitt and later on the palm of his hand. Since the opposing manager never came out and said anything to the umpires, he was never caught and got away with the infraction. In the very next series against one another, almost like a robber breaking into the same house two nights in a row, Pineda was seen using pine tar again, except this time, more obviously. While most players and coaches choose to just let it go, Red Sox manager John Farrell was forced, this time, to bring it to the attention of the umpires. “I think we are all embarrassed,” Yankees General Manager hat I feel stupid,” Pineda told ESPNDeportes.com. “It was a last minute decision when I went out in the second inning, and since I was unable to see myself, I did not know how much I put on until I saw the video.” Those watching Pineda on the mound probably couldn’t help but feel embarrassed for the guy. Most people who cheat do so indiscreetly: Pineda, however, chose not only to put a huge portion of the stuff on his neck for everyone to see, but he did it in his very next start against the team that he should have been caught for using it against not even two weeks previously. “Guys look to create a grip,” opposing manager John Farrell said, “but typically you’re not looking to be as blatant.” Despite the idiocy of it all on Pineda’s part, other players, including those on the opposing team, don’t seem to have much of a problem with what he did. Red Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski thinks that it could help with the safety of the players coming up to the plate. “I don’t have a problem with guys that do it,” he said. “I know as a hitter, I want to get in there and know that the guy has a grip. Put it on your hat, put it on your pants, your belt, put it on your glove, whatever you have to do. You just can’t do it that blatantly. That was what the biggest issue was. No one has an issue with him doing it. It’s just more of the fact that it’s so blatant.” Sure, it’s not steroids, stealing signs, a corked bat or, heaven forbid, betting on a game (see Pete Rose), but it is plainly written in the rules of the game that the use of illegal substances is just that: illegal. If Pineda wanted to get away with it, he perhaps shouldn’t have put it on his neck. Maybe a little on his forehead to keep his cap on straight would have been a better idea. Pineda’s recent gaffe has brought to light some of the other biggest cheaters in baseball and has given us the opportunity to take a look back. For instance, the 1919 Chicago White Sox. Who could forget about the Black Sox World Series scandal and the involvement of the mob to fix what was, at the time, the biggest sporting event on the planet? Certainly ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson wouldn’t. There was Albert Belle and his corked bat and distinct predisposition to running into second baseman with the clear intent to injure them. Of course, the aforementioned Pete Rose makes the list with his gambling tendencies. John McGraw hid balls in the outfield, spiked opposing players with his cleats, watered down base paths, grew out the infield grass and even started a riot. After getting into a fight with the opposing third baseman, a riot begun that eventually destroyed 170 neighboring buildings in 1894. Ty Cobb sharpened his spikes, George Brett has a pine tar incident named after him and who could possibly forget about Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds and the many, many other that have made baseball the game it is today. Now Pineda’s pine tar incident doesn’t sound like such a terrible offense after all. •
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