1993 TIMES: All-Valley Baseball Team : PLAYER & PITCHER OF THE YEAR : Pitcher Perfect : Randy Wolf: Perfect game in playoffs highlighted El Camino Real left-hander’s strong finish.

Name that sound: thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump.

Randy Wolf driving over a speed bump?

Nope, simply the El Camino Real High pitcher motoring up a mound of a different sort--at Dodger Stadium, no less--as his heart did a jackhammer routine.

“My heart was beating, oh, about 1,000 times a second,” Wolf said, recalling his relief appearance in the City Section 4-A Division championship game June 3.

Chatsworth, trailing by a run, had runners on the corners in the sixth inning when Wolf was summoned.

“I looked at the scoreboard and there were no outs,” said Wolf, a junior left-hander. “I figured any ball they hit would score a run.

“I couldn’t even breathe .”

No ECR CPR was necessary. Wolf escaped the jam, and another in the seventh as El Camino Real held on to win, 7-6, claiming its first City title in baseball.

Wolf, who was voted the City 4-A player of the year, was surely the front man in the team’s championship drive.

When he isn’t pitching, Wolf (5-foot-11, 170 pounds) is the team’s starting right fielder. He is also the cleanup hitter and finished with a .338 average and 27 runs batted in. Extra bases? The 16-year-old had six doubles, two triples and two homers.

But offense isn’t where he made his biggest mark. In his final 25 innings, spanning four appearances, The Times’ Valley pitcher of the year allowed only three hits, two of which didn’t leave the infield. Over that span, he recorded 37 strikeouts.

To recap:

* May 18--In a regular-season finale against Taft, El Camino Real’s rival, Wolf tossed a no-hitter and struck out 14 in a 3-0 victory.

Wolf credited the performance to a minor adjustment in his delivery. While starting his windup, Wolf said, he began to “raise my hands over my head.”

That move also would become a staple in the postgame celebrations for the next two weeks.

* May 27--How to top a no-no?

Try perfecto.

Wolf was perfect in a 6-0 victory over Banning in the second round of the 4-A playoffs, retiring all 21 batters.

He struck out nine, and of his 76 pitches, 59 were strikes.

It is believed to be the first perfect game in City playoff history.

* June 1--Encore!

Alas, one streak ended, but another endured. The first batter in a 4-A semifinal against Monroe got an infield single. However, Wolf kept the shutout streak alive with a 6-0 victory.

He recorded the first eight outs on strikeouts and fanned 12 overall in a commanding three-hitter.

* June 3--Against Chatsworth at Dodger Stadium, Wolf extricated the team from its first-and-third mess in the sixth, then escaped another dicey threat in the seventh to seal the victory.

While Chatsworth scored an unearned run with two out, Wolf didn’t allow a hit in two innings of relief.

After the unearned run pared the lead to a single run, Wolf squared off against outfielder Mike Amado with the tying run at second base. With the count full, Amado fouled off four consecutive fastballs.

Catcher Chris Seal, seeking another fastball, flashed one finger.

Wolf shook off the sign.

“Chris Seal looked at me like, ‘What’s he doing?’ ” Wolf said, laughing. “Then he very sloooowly put down two fingers.”

Wolf threw his best curveball of the night to strike out Amado to end the game. Wolf’s arms, once again, were raised overhead.