Oakland Ballers clinch second-half title, earn homefield advantage for playoffs

A day after becoming the Pioneer League’s second-half champions, the Oakland Ballers finished their inaugural regular season Sunday with an otherwise meaningless 5-1 loss to the Yolo High Rollers in Davis on Sunday.

The Ballers, whose 31-17 overall record in the second half was tops in the 12-team Pioneer League, will be back in Davis on Tuesday to face the High Rollers again in Game 1 of the best-of-3 first-round playoff series.

After Tripp Clark’s first-inning grand slam set the...