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Slump Plagues Cal League

By STEVE HENSON
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With plenty of help from the JetHawks, the California League composite batting average is 31 points lower than at this time last season, dropping from .271 to .240. Scoring in the league is down nearly two runs a game and the league earned-run average has fallen from 4.30 to 3.57. The JetHawks are last in the league with a batting average of .224. The leader, Bakersfield, is batting only .266.

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JetHawks catcher-designated hitter Brendan Kingman did not play until the season was eight games old because he was waiting for his visa to arrive. Kingman, 24, is from Sydney, Australia. Last week he hit a game-winning grand slam against Stockton. Kingman was signed by the Seattle Mariners after he batted .487 with 28 homers and 66 runs batted in in 44 Australian League winter games.

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Steve Henson is a reporter with the Fast Break sports team at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an assistant editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club and has been honored several times by the Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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