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Thousand Oaks gets roughed up in Big League World Series

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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Bravos de Pontezuela of Santiago, Dominican Republic, routed Thousand Oaks, 12-0, on Wednesday night in the championship game of the Big League World Series that was reduced to only five innings because of the mercy rule.

Gilbert Jimenez drove in three runs and pitcher Odalis Jimenez held Thousand Oaks to two hits in five scoreless innings. Thousand Oaks starter Kody Kasper couldn’t make it out of the second inning, allowing four hits and five runs in 1 1/3 innings.

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Dustin Kahle and Austin Alvizo had the hits for Thousand Oaks.

--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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