The working day just before he pitched the sport of his substantial school existence, Mountain View’s Gabe Barrett advised his mentor that he felt good and was seeking forward to avenging their team’s decline to Wilcox earlier in the week. 
Barrett wasn’t excellent Friday.
He was fantastic. 
The senior struck out 17 Wilcox batters and did not make it possible for a strike — that’s right, a 17-strikeout no-hitter — as Mountain Check out won on its household discipline 3-.
The 1st 8 hitters went down on strikes, so did the very last a single. 
The sport ended with a muted celebration because of COVID-19 restrictions — some superior-fives, and pats on the again — but no dogpile. 
That is Alright. 
Barrett had his dogpile practical experience two a long time in the past when he recorded the remaining out to clinch a Central Coastline Portion championship. 
Winning CCS as a sophomore closer is by considerably his most cherished baseball second, Barrett explained to the Bay Area News Group, but what unfolded Friday is second.
“It was enjoyable, person,” Barrett reported. “It was genuinely entertaining.” 
What produced the recreation even extra particular was that Barrett’s brother, Liam, a freshman, was the catcher. Liam isn’t a catcher by trade. But since Mountain See has a lot more encounter at the situation he’ll ultimately perform — outfield — he’s paying this period driving the plate. 
“He’s altering to it pretty perfectly,” Barrett mentioned. “He’s been catching for me his complete lifestyle. It is been fantastic to play with him and make with him as a player.” 
Barrett averaged between 87-88 mph with his fastball, topping out at 90.8. 
The ideal-hander threw 107 pitches. 
“The fastball was operating,” Barrett stated. “The curveball was doing the job, much too.” 
Experienced the very last batter walked, Mountain Check out coach Kris Mims reported, Barrett would have been removed due to the fact of the 110-pitch restrict in substantial university. He completed with three walks in the seven-inning match. 
“It would have been actually awkward pulling him out and letting an individual else test to get that remaining out of the no-hitter,” Mims claimed. 
It never ever acquired to that place. 
The past pitch was a called third strike, recorded on video clip by Barrett’s moms and dads for a keepsake. 

“It was tremendous entertaining,” Chris Barrett wrote in a direct concept about watching his sons. “I coached the two of them off and on considering the fact that they have been 5. They experienced a person prior year collectively in Mountain See Little League when Gabriel was 12 & Liam was 9. Glad to just be a dad and look at now.” 
Mims mentioned of his 6-foot, 185-pound pitcher’s gem: “I’ve coached high college ball 16 many years. I’ve coached vacation ball for an additional 12. I assume I have been a portion of 1 seven-inning no-hitter in all people years. In a league higher school activity — in our league, an ‘A’ league, which is very excellent level of competition — it was great. 
“Striking out the initially eight hitters established the tone. He settled in and started off pumping strikes. It was incredibly distinctive. Particular to see, particular to coach, great for the faculty, for the neighborhood. Athletics is our launch from the genuine environment.” 
Two days previously, Wilcox shut out Mountain Look at 4- to enhance to 3-. 

But Friday, the Chargers have been silenced by the pitcher Mims identified as the toughest thrower he has coached at the superior university amount. 
“I’ve coached some very stable velocity guys, at Los Altos and at Mountain See,” Mims mentioned. “When he’s throwing his very first pitch at 87 and his 85th pitch at 87, it speaks a good deal about the situation that his body’s in.” 
In Mountain View’s year opener very last month, Barrett threw a two-hitter with 16 strikeouts in a 3-1 victory more than Sobrato. The 16 strikeouts ended up believed to be a faculty report, Mims mentioned. 
So Friday’s video game broke that mark, but it was not the most strikeouts in a no-hitter/perfect game in Central Coast Part history. 
In accordance to information kept by Cal-Hello Athletics, Patrick Wicklander’s 18-strikeout no-hitter for Valley Christian towards Archbishop Riordan in 2018 is the best amongst CCS pitchers. 
Wicklander is now in his junior year at Arkansas. 
Barrett has dedicated to continue his baseball career and education at Claremont McKenna School. 

But he would not mind if Friday’s superior college recreation of his everyday living — his to start with no-hitter because Very little League — draws some fascination from professional scouts. 
“That’s what I am hoping for,” Barrett claimed. “I want to engage in as lengthy as I can. I really like this activity. It is been my dream my complete daily life.”