The Manhattan Beach senior baseball all-stars got started with a bang Tuesday, routing Oregon 17-0 over five innings in the 2013 Little League Baseball Western Regional Senior Tournament held at Jay Littleton Ballpark in Ontario.
The tournament will last through August 6th.
Manhattan Beach played a perfect game Tuesday afternoon, hitting in the clutch all game long, and had two pitchers combine for a no-hitter to complete its victory.
"We hit the ball well, we played good defense, but we take pride in our pitching and defense on this team," said Manhattan Beach head coach Carlos Rojas. "We have a lot of young guys on this team, we play older but as far as date of birth we're younger."
From the onset of the game the Southern California team put the pressure on Oregon as the first three batters reached base while scoring two runs, and included one more run in the inning off a Trevor Franklin sac-fly to lead 3-0 after the first.
The second inning is when things really got out of control as Manhattan Beach batted around, scoring eight runs to lead 11-0 after two innings. Second baseman Logan Pollack came to the plate with the bases loaded and promptly unloaded them with a three-run double to go up 6-0.
Pollack seemed to be in the biggest of spots throughout the game as he came to the plate in the bottom of the third with the bases loaded again, and d j vu, promptly drove a all to right field for another three-run double
to put his team up 16-0.Pollack finished the game 3 for 3 with six RBIs.Manhattan Beach finished the third inning scoring six more runs and leading 17-0.
"Our team just really came out ready to go today, and we don't take any team for granted. I'm just really happy to be a part of this group," said Pollack. "I hit in the cages yesterday and was focusing on my left-handed swing and the ball was just really coming in slow for me today."
On the other side of the ball, starting pitcher Cooper Gallion came out throwing flames as he struck out five of the first seven batters faced. Gallion lasted only 2 2/3 innings due to the enormous lead his offense produced for him, while striking out five and walking only two.
Max Tullio pitched in relief and helped to combine with Gallion on the team's no hitter.
"There's a couple of things we need to improve on when the game is so out of hand like that," Rojas said. "We need to throw strikes and my starter Gallion got in a grove then lost focus, which happens, so working on staying focused is important."
Pollack knows they have a week full of tough games ahead, but is looking forward to bringing the West Region championship home to Southern California.
"I see ourselves doing very well in this tournament, but there are some very good teams that we'll have to compete with, and we're just going to have to bring our A game. It would be great because that would be our second time to the World Series in five years," Pollack said.
Manhattan Beach's next game will be this morning at 9 at Jay Littleton Ballpark.
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