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The pitching staff has delivered 12 shutouts in 14 games.

Phillips, who was most valuable pitcher of the tournament, finally tired with one out in the fifth inning after pitching 11 innings in two games Saturday — the second of which ended just before midnight.

Junior shortstop James Clark spent this week giving nightmares to Orange Lutheran pitching.

Armed with a stack of handmade business cards, I went door to door in our suburban Chicago cul-de-sac, pitching the neighbors: “Would you like fresh-baked cookies delivered to your doorstep every Saturday morning?”

“As scary as it was, I think it put some things in perspective for him,” assistant pitching coach Connor McGuiness said before first pitch of May’s nearly two-year absence.