GA's Davila Fans One Return to TedSilary.com Home Page This story appeared in the Daily News on 5/13/06. It concerns an amazing outing by Gtn. Academy righthander Jason Davila. By Ted Silary Jason Davila is heading for Johns Hopkins University to major in organic chemistry or chemical engineering. He's currently involved in a senior project with Merck and in time hopes to discover new drugs that will help society. On a mound, he's not as benevolent. Davila, a 6-foot, 185-pound senior righthander, yesterday pitched a no-muss, no-fuss one-hitter as Germantown Academy deflated visiting Penn Charter, 8-0, in the Inter-Ac League. Davila faced the minimum 21 batters in the 87-minute affair. The two Quakers who reached base - Mark Rhine on a third-inning single through the hole to leftfield; Ryan Wenger on a sixth-inning infield throwing error - were quickly erased in doubleplays. Pitch count? Sixty-three. Strikeout count? One. And the punchout, with strike three called, came on the final pitch of the game to Mike Basile, with the count 3-2. "I was talking with [catcher] Joe Conaway after the fifth inning about how I had no strikeouts," Davila said. "To finally get one on the last batter, that was very weird. "I don't strike out a lot of people. I wasn't trying for one there. My philosophy - and Tyler Green [pitching coach, the former Phillie] is big on this - is to make pitches to great locations, so the batters can't make good contact. He says you should never try to throw one past somebody. "I guess my lowest strikeout total was two. I had eight to nine one game and my average is probably five to six. I've been pitching all my life, but I can't ever remember a game like this. I've never been a dominant pitcher. Just one of those get-the-job-done guys." PC made hard contact in the first, but the rest of of the innings were mostly uneventful. Davila recorded 13 outs on grounders (counting the DPs), four on flies, two on infield pops and one on an infield liner. "I was kind of glad their hit came early," Davila said. "After that, there's no hype, no pressure. |
Jason Davila We got them out methodically. My teammates kept making the plays. I got some fastballs up early, when they made solid contact, but then I started mixing my pitches better and painting the corners." John Barr's single plated a third-inning run. Mark Brown's RBI double highlighted the two-run fourth while Joe Zubkoff dominated the five-run fifth with a long, big-fly, three-run homer to left-center. Davila finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored. The Hatfield resident is an honor-roll student with a 1,230 SAT score and he plays first base when not pitching. He'll approach next season with flexibility. "When I get down there," he said, "we'll see what plans the coach has for me." GA's lineup |
