query: place_of_birth scott mcclain
supports: California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area. Located on the western (Pacific Ocean) coast of the U.S., California is bordered by the other U.S. states of Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California. The state capital is Sacramento. Los Angeles is California's most populous city, and the country's second largest after New York City. The state also has the nation's most populous county, Los Angeles County, and its largest county by area, San Bernardino County. Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, as well as a diverse residential neighborhood of some 58,000 people. A 2013 study found that the district is home to over 500,000 jobs. Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each, who take turns batting and fielding. The Simi Hills are a low rocky mountain range of the Transverse Ranges, located in eastern Ventura County and western Los Angeles County, of southern California, United States. The Greater Los Angeles Area is the second-largest urban region in the United States, encompassing five counties in Southern California, extending from Ventura County in the west to San Bernardino County and Riverside County on the east, with Los Angeles County in the center and Orange County to the southeast. The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues that constitute Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship plays against the winner of the Pacific League in the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around the country. Unlike the Pacific League, designated hitters are not used during Central League home games. An inning in baseball, softball, and similar games is the basic unit of play, consisting of two halves or frames, the "top" (first half) and the "bottom" (second half). In each half, one team bats until three outs are made, with the other team playing defense. A full game typically is scheduled for nine innings, although this may be shortened due to weather or extended in the event that the score is tied at the end of the scheduled innings. The or is one of the two professional baseball leagues constituting Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan. The winner of the league championship competes against the winner in the Central League for the annual Japan Series. It currently consists of six teams from around Japan. Simi Valley is a synclinal valley in Southern California in the United States. It is an enclosed or hidden valley surrounded by mountains and hills. It is connected to the San Fernando Valley to the east by the Santa Susana Pass & 118 freeway, and in the west the narrows of the Arroyo Simi and 118 freeway connect to Moorpark and Ventura, California. The relatively flat bottom of the valley contains soils formed from shales, sandstones and conglomerates eroded from the surrounding hills of the Santa Susana Mountains to the north, which separate Simi Valley from the Santa Clara River Valley, and the Simi Hills. At the end of each Major League Baseball season, the league leaders of various statistical categories are announced. Leading the league in a particular category is referred to as a "title". The league currently consists of two six-team circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League. Each season the winning clubs from the two leagues compete in the Japan Series, the championship series of NPB. Scott Michael McClain ( born May 19 , 1972 in Simi Valley , California ) is a former Major League Baseball third baseman who is a scout in Nippon Professional Baseball . A versatile athlete , he played quarterback for Atascadero High School in Atascadero , California and signed a National Letter of Intent to play football for the University of Southern California before being drafted by the Baltimore Orioles . McClain has spent most of his professional career bouncing around the minor leagues for numerous Major League Baseball organizations . As a major leaguer , he has played in nine games as a member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998 , 13 games with the Chicago Cubs in 2005 , eight games with the San Francisco Giants in 2007 , and 14 more with the Giants in 2008 . He played in the Pacific League in Japan for the Seibu Lions from 2001 - 2004 and in the Central League for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in 2009 . Over his professional career McClain has hit a total of 359 home runs : 287 in the minors , 71 in Japan and two in the MLB . He has also batted in 1237 runs over his professional career ( 1066 in the minors , 171 in Japan ) . He hit his first big league home run on September 3 , 2008 , playing for the Giants against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field , becoming the oldest position player in Major League history to hit his first career home run . While playing for the Oakland A 's Triple - A affiliate , the Sacramento River Cats , in 2006 , McClain won the Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player award . He was the fourth River Cats player since 2000 to win the award . McClain spent the 2007 and 2008 seasons with the Fresno Grizzlies , Triple - A affiliate of the Giants . On January 20 , 2010 , McClain signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs , but as of June 2010 he is not on the roster of any Cubs 's minor league teams . Later in 2010 , Hiroshima added Scott McClain as a US - based scout . The city of Simi Valley (from the Chumash word, Shimiyi), in the eponymous valley, is situated in the southeast corner of Ventura County, California, United States. from Downtown Los Angeles, Simi Valley is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The city is adjacent to Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, and the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth. The city's 2014 population has been estimated at 126,871, up from 111,351 in 2000. The city of Simi Valley is surrounded by the Santa Susana Mountain range and the Simi Hills, west of the San Fernando Valley, and northeast of the Conejo Valley. It is largely a commuter bedroom community feeding the larger cities in Ventura County to the west and the Los Angeles area and the San Fernando Valley to the east. The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in Los Angeles County, California, defined by the mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it. Home to 1.8 million people, it lies north of the larger and more populous Los Angeles Basin. A third baseman, abbreviated "3B", is the player in baseball whose responsibility is to defend the area nearest to third base  the third of four bases a baserunner must touch in succession to score a run. In the scoring system used to record defensive plays, the third baseman is assigned the number '5'. The Conejo Valley is a region spanning both southeastern Ventura County and northwestern Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States. , or is the annual championship series in Nippon Professional Baseball and the top baseball league in Japan. It is a seven-game series between the winning clubs of the league's two circuits, the Central League and the Pacific League. The Series is the highest level of play in professional baseball in Japan. It is usually played in October or November. As in all of the best-of-seven series, the first team to win four games is the overall winner and is declared each year. The winner of the Japan Series also goes on to be the Japanese representative team in the annual Asia Series. Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels"), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-most populous city in the United States (after New York City), the most populous city in California and the county seat of Los Angeles County. Situated in Southern California, Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major center of the American entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over .
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answer: ventura county