Baseball: Top Taft pitcher won’t pitch this season

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Ryan Santhon, a left-handed pitcher from Taft who helped hand Chatsworth its only defeat in West Valley League baseball action last season, has been lost for the season from pitching after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his elbow earlier this month.

Santhon might be able to return as a hitter in mid-April, but his absence hurts a Taft team that was expected to contend for a playoff berth.

-- Eric Sondheimer