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Baseball: Rio Ruiz, Milwaukee Brewers fit to be tied at Area Code Games

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Though they were considered to have as much talent as anyone competing in the Area Code Games, the Southern California-laden Milawaukee Brewers finished with a ho-hum 2-1-2 record.

In their finale Wednesday, the Brewers tied the Texas Rangers, 4-4, with Bishop Amat’s Rio Ruiz driving in Edison’s Timothy Lopes as part of a three-run second inning. Two of the runs were unearned.

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The Rangers rallied to tie the score in the seventh on a home run by Courtney Hawkins. Umpires departed after the final out of the inning, preventing the game from going extra innings.

--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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