Palma-Menlo baseball

Menlo (21-7) vs. Palma (22-6)
Tuesday, 7 p.m. at San Jose Municipal Stadium
Division III semifinals
 While Palma has rattled off 10 straight wins, the West Bay Athletic League champion Knights come in with a nine game winning streak.
 The top seeded Chieftains have not been tested in the postseason, having needed just six innings to 10 run both St. Lawrence and Terra Nova.
 The Knights, meanwhile, needed late inning heroics to beat Carmel 3-2 and Soquel 4-3.
 The two private powers share two common opponents in Soquel and Monterey, which both Menlo and the Chieftains defeated.
 Amos Strauss drove in a season high four runs in the Chieftains last game while Cameron Neff had three hits while tossing a three hitter.
 Neff has started both playoff games, having thrown just eight innings. He would be eligible to pitch tonight, although Austin Wahl is 8-0 this year.
 Menlo has some live bats, hitting .325 as a team this spring. Will King hit .395 this year while Mikey Diekroeger hit .392.

Stevenson-Pacific Grove baseball

Stevenson (18-9) vs. Pacific Grove (29-0)
Tuesday, 4 p.m. at San Jose Municipal Stadium
Division III semifinals
 The two Mission Trail Athletic League rivals are meeting for the fourth time this year with Pacific Grove having shut them out in the last two meetings.
 Then again the Breakers pitching staff, anchored by Chris Clements and Conyal Cody, has been filthy, having not allowed a run in their last six games or 38 innings of work.
 Stevenson has caught fire at the right time with five straight wins. In fact, its last setback was a 2-0 loss to Pacific Grove.
 Galen Manhard and Angelo Martinez both threw gems in the Pirates upsets of No. 3 seed St. Francis Catholic and No. 6 seed Scotts Valley.
 Paul Edwards has come up big in the postseason for Stevenson with three RBI while Drew Miller had two hits, two runs batted in and three stolen bases last Saturday.
 Manhard will likely line up on the bump against Clements, who is 13-0 this year.
 The old cliche is it's tough to beat a team three times in a season. How about four?