Baseball: Los Osos doesn’t show any teeth

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During the regular season, Long Beach Wilson, Cypress and Saugus failed to live up to expectations (mine, of course), but no team fell further off the charts than Los Osos.

The Grizzlies came into the season with one of the top prospects in the nation in center fielder Isaac Galloway, a hot-hitting catcher in Richard Brehaut (OK, he’s an even hotter quarterback) and a Notre-Dame-bound left-hander in Dustin Ispas.

But the team was about as hot-’n-cold as a soup-’n-salad combination, and never seemed to get its head above water. Despite their struggles, the Grizzlies still had a chance to sneak into the final playoff spot in the Baseline League, but Ispas lost his fourth straight game Wednesday, this time 3-2 to Claremont, dropping Los Osos into fifth place.

Talk about getting de-clawed.

-- Dan Arritt