“He’s just a ballplayer, man. You can’t tell he’s 15 out there.”
PACIFICA — St. Ignatius freshman pitcher Chase Gordon had 24 hours to mentally prepare for his first-ever varsity start.The left-handed Gordon pitched a complete game to lead the Wildcats to a 5-1 win over Bellarmine on Thursday at Fairmont Field in Pacifica and lead SI to Saturday’s regional championship game at Casa Grande-Petaluma.
“He threw really well,” Bellarmine coach Nate Sutton said, adding that Gordon’s start “came out of the blue” to the Bells. “He definitely didn’t act like a freshman. He didn’t get caught up in the moment at all. Usually, young guys, it’s easy to get them rattled. But him, not at all.” Giometti got things started with one out and a runner on second in the first, poking a hard grounder down the left-field line for a run-scoring double. But even with the team’s approach, the left-handed hitter said he can’t remember ever poking a ball so tightly down the opposite foul line.
The Bells would get their lone run of the day with two outs in the third. Leadoff hitter Nolan Randol reached on an error by SI, then got to second when Gordon was called for a balk. Bellarmine senior Chase Knight scored Randol with a single to center. “We had our guy on the mound and some breaks here, breaks there, balls fall and we don’t make plays and that’s baseball. We only scored one run on [Gordon] anyways, so it was going to be tough.”
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