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Baseball: Aflac All-American Classic ends in a tie

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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The only thing missing was Bud Selig throwing up his hands because he didn’t know what to do.

The Aflac All-American Classic ended in an extra-inning tie Sunday at Petco Park not because the high school all-star teams ran out of pitchers but because it was determined beforehand that the game would go only 10 innings even if the score remained tied.

That’s exactly what happened after Rancho Buena Vista’s Tony Wolters hit a run-scoring triple down the right-field line in the ninth inning to pull the West into a 3-3 tie with the East. Each team scored a run in the 10th inning and the game ended in a 4-4 deadlock.

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Wolters was selected the game’s most valuable player after going two for three with two runs scored and a steal.

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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