MALIBU, Calif. — Pitcher Abe Bobb threw a four-hit, two-run complete game to lead San Francisco to a 7-2 win over Pepperdine Friday afternoon at Eddy D. Field Stadium.
Bobb allowed a leadoff single in the first before retiring 18 hitters in a row. A single in the seventh inning led to an unearned run and Bobb allowed a run in the ninth inning on a single and a double. That was the extent of Pepperdine’s offensive attack as Bobb mixed his pitches and attacked the Waves’ hitters with his fastball.
He struck out five.
After his first complete game, I talked to Bobb about the outing.
Bobb discussed how he attacked the hitters with his sinker early in the game and then used more off-speed pitches in the later innings. He also talked about filling in for staff ace Kyle Zimmer, who is nursing a hamstring injury and will not pitch this weekend, and the team’s enthusiasm in the dugout:
Shotgun Spratling covers the Southern California area where he attended 75 games during the 2012 season.
He attended grad school at USC where he covered USC sports for Neon Tommy, South LA Intersections, Annenberg TV News, KSCR and the Trojan Vision debate show Platforum Sports. He has worked with the Princeton Devil Rays minor league team, written for daily and weekly newspapers and done freelance work for publications such as ESPN, NBC Los Angeles and the SC Playbook magazine.
After being a 3-sport letterman in high school, he was a 4-year letterman at Division III Maryville College where he concluded his collegiate career by inducing a ground out to end the 2007 Great South Athletic Conference Tournament and gave the Scots the GSAC championship.
He also spent the 2010 summer in Cape Town, South Africa covering sports for the Cape Community Papers during the first FIFA World Cup held on African soil.
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MALIBU, Calif. — Pitcher Abe Bobb threw a four-hit, two-run complete game to lead San Francisco to a 7-2 win over Pepperdine Friday afternoon at Eddy D. Field Stadium.
