The Long Beach Coast clinched a spot in the Pioneer League championship on Saturday, beating Modesto, 6-3.<\/p>\n
The Coast will play the Billings Mustangs in a best-of-three series, beginning with a Tuesday home game at Blair Field, starting at 6:35 p.m. Gates open for the final round of the Pioneer League Playoffs at 5:35 p.m.<\/p>\n
Game 2 of the series (and Game 3, if needed) will be played at Billings, Montana.<\/p>\n
In Saturday\u2019s win, right fielder Cooper Vest hit his second playoff home run in three games and continued to play standout defense, and third baseman Benjamin Rosengard hit a two-run single.<\/p>\n
Long Beach also turned three double plays in the infield.<\/p>\n
Long Beach didn\u2019t play Billings during the regular season. Billings advanced to the championship series with a pair of wins over Missoula. The Mustangs went 67-28 for the season and outscored opponents 1,035-706. They\u2019re led by outfielder A.J. Shaver, who hit .434 for the season with 21 home runs and 121 RBIs. Justin Johnson led the team with 28 home runs.<\/p>\n
For Long Beach, Emilio Corona and Cuba Bess each hit 27 home runs in the team\u2019s first season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Long Beach Coast clinched a spot in the Pioneer League championship on Saturday, beating Modesto, 6-3. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132,127],"class_list":["post-463712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}