The smiles of joy and tears of happiness across the faces of young boys from two years ago were instead those of overwhelming sadness and heartache Saturday when Mountain Ridge lost 1-0 in the West Regional final.
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Mountain Ridge fell to Park View Little League of Chula Vista, Calif. 1-0 on Saturday night in the West Regional final before an estimated 12,000 at Houghton Stadium and an ESPN audience.
Reliever Jim Henderson coughed up a lead in the eighth inning, and the Las Vegas 51s lost 6-5 to the New Orleans Zephyrs on Friday at Cashman Field.
Garrett Cutting pitched a one-hitter with 11 strikeouts and hit a home run Friday to lift Mountain Ridge to a 9-0 victory over Hawaii representative Central East Maui in the Little League West Regional.
Alex Rodriguez returned to the infield, hugged a reception line of teammates and was handed the final ball from his final game with the New York Yankees. He walked to the area behind third base, leaned down and grabbed a handful of dirt.
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Starter Robert Gsellman, one of the New York Mets’ top pitching prospects, has made a sharp turnaround since his first three starts with the Las Vegas 51s.
51s left-hander Sean Gilmartin was rattled for six runs and nine hits in his three-inning outing, and the Albuquerque Isotopes completed a four-game sweep of Las Vegas with an 8-7 victory.
T.J. Rivera will finally get his shot. Passed up for a promotion multiple times this season, the Mets finally called up the 51s Triple-A All-Star third baseman.
Just over a month ago, the 51s dropped both games of a doubleheader to the Albuquerque Isotopes. On Tuesday, Las Vegas suffered the same fate, losing 7-0 and 4-3 to Albuquerque at Isotopes Park.
Former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow is now pursuing a career in professional baseball and will hold a workout for major league teams later this month, according to agents Jimmy Sexton and Nick Khan.
A hard downpour during the middle of the afternoon Monday in Albuquerque forced the 51s into their second doubleheader in less than a week.
This is the second time this season that 51s third baseman T.J. Rivera has been named the Pacific Coast League’s Player of the Week.
The lights went out twice for nearly 40 on the 51s and Isotopes in the fifth inning on Sunday. And when they came back on, what the 51s saw was ugly.
T.J. Rivera knocked in two runs in the eighth inning with a bases-loaded double to lift the Las Vegas 51s to a 10-8 victory over the Fresno Grizzlies on Saturday at Cashman Field.