With Teachers’ Strike Over, City Section Will Hold 4-A Baseball Playoffs After All

As a result of the settlement of the Los Angeles teachers’ strike, the City Section has reinstated the 4-A Division baseball playoffs.

City Section Commissioner Hal Harkness and a group representing the 4-A coaches agreed to a plan Thursday morning that calls for first-round games today and the next three rounds to be played Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The final will be played next Thursday at Dodger Stadium.

Two wild-card games that were canceled last week have been scrapped.

Teams that survive the first round of the 16-team tournament will be allowed to practice either Saturday or Monday. A limit of 14 innings per pitcher will be in effect over three games next week.

Harkness canceled the playoffs Tuesday because of a coaches’ boycott stemming from the strike.

Harkness, who insisted that the playoffs could not be merely postponed because of possible conflicts with academics, reinstated the playoffs because the new format calls for no extension of the season.