Baseball Team Ends Playoff Drought

By Mike White / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 14, 2014

Fox Chapel coach Mike Frank took the lineup card off the dugout wall to give to his pitcher, Pat Monteverde. It’s a tradition, Frank says.

“After every win, we give it to the winning pitcher,” Frank said.

Wednesday, Frank gave his pitcher a winning lineup card from a playoff game. That’s not a tradition.

Fox Chapel beat Allderdice, 7-3, in the first round of the WPIAL Class AAAA playoffs at West Mifflin. The previous time Fox Chapel won a playoff game, Frank wasn’t born and Jimmy Carter was in the White House.

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