In the Valley Invitational Baseball League all star games, pitchers stole the limelight in the two games at Birmingham High School over the weekend.

The first game was a scoreless tie until the seventh inning. Harvard-Westlake’s Joe Cadiff hit a run-scoring single in the bottom of the seventh to give his team a 1-0 win in the first game.

In the second game, Crespi’s Kevin Williams hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning, but his team lost, 4-2.

The Santa Clarita Valley players on the teams were not much of a factor in the games.

In the Major League Baseball All-Star game, Orlando Hudson and Chad Billingsley had some mixed results last night in St. Louis. Hudson singled in the eighth inning and stole second. With his National League team down 4-3, Hudson was on second base with Phillies slugger Ryan Howard at the plate. But Howard struck out and the National League failed to score in the inning.

As for Billingsley, he gave up a game-tying two-out double to Joe Mauer that scored Derek Jeter. At least Billingsley didn’t get the loss.