Playoff baseball is back at the Nat Bailey Stadium! For the first time since 2017, there will be fall Friday night baseball in Vancouver. Nothing beats the atmosphere of playoff baseball on a cool fall evening. Tickets are still available for tonight’s action against the Eugene Emeralds who have your Canadians on the brink of elimination.
For our only Friday night game of the 2022 Season to be a Playoff game — need we say more?
Join us #AtTheNat TOMORROW!
⚾️ 7:05PM First Pitch
🆚 @EugeneEmeraldsTickets Available at the Nat Bailey Box Office or over the phone at 604 872 5232
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— Vancouver Canadians (@vancanadians) September 15, 2022
It was a tough-luck 6-5 loss on Tuesday night in Oregon. The start to the series was even harder to swallow after having a legitimate chance at a comeback win in the ninth inning. With runners on first and second and no outs, Juan Sanchez managed to strike out three consecutive Canadian batters to punch out the side and end the game.
Three straight K’s! And not only that but he got the meat of the order to whiff. Damiano Palmegiani, PK Morris, and Rainer Nunez, the Canadian’s 2-4 hitters respectably, needed to step up with a clutch hit in the moment and couldn’t do so. There is really no excuse for not making some form of solid contact and putting the ball in play with no outs. Instead, the Canadians come back to the home crowd down two games and need some home cooking to get them back into the series.
The man the Canadians needed in the ninth was Dasan Brown. The hottest bat in the lineup didn’t get a chance to take an at-bat in a high-leverage situation, which is a shame as he has been one of the few Canadian bats to torment the Emeralds. Brown is a scorching 4-9 with 3 jacks and 4 RBI in just two games.
The reality is the Emeralds have the Canadians number. Dating back to the final series of the regular season when these clubs squared off, Eugene has taken 7 of the last 8 games. That must be playing on the minds of the Canadians…time to get the offence humming now that they are back at home and start building some new momentum.