Expand<\/a><\/p>\nAnaly\u2019s red-hot baseball squad won its sixth game in a row Friday night, 5-1 over Santa Rosa, to strengthen the Tigers\u2019 grip on first place in the North Bay League Redwood division.<\/p>\n
Analy junior Gabe Franci went five innings in his start on the mound, allowing just one earned run and three hits while totaling five strikeouts to quiet the opposing Panthers.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a nice defense behind me and having them make plays for me, it makes pitching a lot easier,\u201d Franci said afterward.<\/p>\n
He finished with 74 pitches before junior Benji Parodi was brought to close out the win in the final two innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in the zone all day. He was composed all day.\u201d Analy head coach Matt Stephens said of Franci. \u201cHe gave us a chance to win that game and we were able to pull it out.\u201d<\/p>\n
With the win, Analy (9-3, 5-0) remains undefeated in league play to top the NBL-Redwood standings. Santa Rosa (5-6, 2-3) currently trails the Tigers, Healdsburg and Montgomery in the league.<\/p>\n
Stephens wanted to see more offense from his Tigers in Friday\u2019s contest, despite the final score. Santa Rosa outhit Analy with four hits to the Tigers\u2019 two.<\/p>\n
Analy junior Conor Ipsen and senior Kyle Russel had the two hits for the visitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe manufactured a couple runs, we took advantage of some of their mistakes, took advantage of some walks and scored when we could,\u201d Stephens said. \u201cWe got lucky we scored when we did and we could have done a lot better at the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Analy\u2019s first run came on a wild pitch that brought Hunter Thomas home in the first inning. The Tigers\u2019 final two runs came on a dropped pop fly in the sixth inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re better than what we showed today offensively,\u201d Stephens said. \u201cHopefully next week we turn it around offensively.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Panthers finished with seven errors.<\/p>\n
Santa Rosa pulled starting pitcher Julian Suarez in the top of the third for Anthonie Navarro, who got three outs, including two strikeouts, to end the inning. Suarez finished with 61 pitches and three runs allowed.<\/p>\n
After taking over, Navarro was dominant for the Panthers with nine strikeouts through five innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe best I\u2019ve seen him throw ever,\u201d Santa Rosa head coach Paige Dumont said. \u201cIt\u2019s tough when you only give up two hits and they get five runs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dumont called Navarro one of the high-energy players on the Santa Rosa roster and said his teammates feed off of that.<\/p>\n
The sole run for the Panthers came in the bottom of the third inning from senior Daniel Mills, on an RBI single.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working on things,\u201d Dumont said of his team\u2019s offensive approach. \u201cWe just can\u2019t seem to find the timely hitting right now when we\u2019ve got runners on base.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Panthers left seven runners on base.<\/p>\n
Senior Mateo Fitzgerald led Santa Rosa with two hits, along with two stolen bases.<\/p>\n
Both teams\u2019 next games come Wednesday.\u00a0 Analy plays at St. Vincent in Petaluma, while Santa Rosa hosts Piner.<\/p>\n
The two squads will meet again for the final two games of the season in NBL-Redwood play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mateo Fitzgerald of Santa Rosa slides back safely to second base after a pickoff attempt by Analy, Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,2178,3263,7815,38738,79153,30059,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-662807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-high-school-sports","11":"tag-north-bay","12":"tag-northern-california","13":"tag-santa-rosa","14":"tag-sonoma-county","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116346823820580844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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