Maldonado allows 1 run, 7 hits in TOTS' win

Tucson Old Timers (TOTS)

60-and-over baseball

Team White  12  Team Blue 1

Crafty right-hander Pete Maldonado pitched for Team White  today at Udall Park. The 70-year-old, who hails from The Bronx, New York, allowed one run and scattered just seven hits as Team White, down 1-0 in the second inning, scored a dozen runs the rest of the way to dispose of Team Blue, 12-1, in a 60-and-over Tucson Old Timers game.

Maldonado (photo) sailed through each inning, much like he must of done as a 10-year-old in da bronx some 60 years ago when he toed the rubber as a Little Leaguer.

If he keeps it up, the TOTS may have to change his name to The Maldonado from da Bronx.

While The Maldonado was busy mowing down batters his teammates were busy scoring runs with Mike Steele, John Mathews and Mike Dawson combining for nine of the team's 16 hits -- including three doubles, a triple and were responsible for six of the 12 runs that crossed the plate. Dawson had the triple and Mathews finished the game with four RBI.

Joe Opocensky had one of the seven hits for Team Blue and scored the only run. Brack Whitaker also singled and knocked in the lone run. 

The TOTS finish off the week with a game at Udall on Friday. Game time: 8:30 AM.