Baseball: Crespi’s Healy improves to 9-0 with three-hit shutout

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There aren’t many pitchers in Southern California with better pinpoint control than junior right-hander Ryon Healy of Encino Crespi. Healy turned in a vintage performance Thursday in the opening round of the Southern Section Division II playoffs, striking out six, walking none and throwing a three-hitter in Crespi’s 6-0 victory over Alta Loma at Valley College.

Healy improved to 9-0. In 65 1/3 innings this season, he has walked just 12. Against Alta Loma (16-10), the co-champion of the Baseline League, Healy hit the first batter of the game, gave up a single and then retired the next 16 batters in order. He never had a three-ball count.

‘I wasn’t trying to dominate,’ he said. ‘I was trying to throw strikes.’

Crespi Coach Scott Muckey has been known as a pitching guru during his many years with the Celts, and one of the characteristics of his top pitchers is their ability to throw strikes, from Jeff Suppan to Trevor Plouffe.

.Now Healy is on the way to joining his elite list of Crespi pitchers. ‘He’s getting there,’ Muckey said. ‘He throws the ball where he wants to throw it.’

Crespi (17-11), the second-place finisher from the Mission League, got four hits from Kevin Williams, who had a double and triple, plus a double and single from Josh Mason.

-- Eric Sondheimer