Baseball: Alemany, Harvard-Westlake settle for 2-2 tie

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Kenny Grodin’s two-out pinch-hit double in the top of the seventh inning scored pinch runner Andrew Wallach to tie the game for Harvard-Westlake, and Jack Flaherty struck out Ryan Paramo with the potential winning run on third in the bottom of the seventh, enabling the Wolverines to come away with a 2-2 tie against Alemany in a Mission League game stopped after seven innings because of darkness.

Alemany (5-1-1, 1-0-1) came so close to pulling off a two-game sweep of Harvard-Westlake (4-2-1, 0-1-1). The Warriors opened a 2-0 lead against Max Fried, getting two unearned runs. Fried struck out seven, walked three and gave up three hits in five inning. Cory Messmore shut out the Wolverines for five innings.

But Harvard-Westlake got an unearned run in the sixth when a throw went into center field on a steal. In the seventh, with closer Peter Van Gansen on the mound, sophomore Tyler Urbach got his second hit of the game, a leadoff double. Harvard-Westlake Coach Matt LaCour was ejected after arguing a call when the base umpired ruled Urbach was out at third after an attempted sacrifice.

Following a fly out, Grodin, a junior, delivered his clutch hit, smashing the ball to right center to score Wallach from first. ‘I went up there with confidence,’ Grodin said.

Harvard-Westlake was limited to four hits. The Wolverines had only three hits on Tuesday in a 2-1 loss to Alemany.

-- Eric Sondheimer