Vancouver Canadians April 24th recap

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The Canadians lost again to Spokane last night, falling to 7-10 on the season, and are now fourth in the Northwest league. 

Another disappointing evening for the Canadians after losing 5-4 last night. But hey, at least they didn’t get shut out again, so that’s a positive. The lousy weather stopped just around the time the first pitch was being thrown, but the field conditions did not look great out there. As someone who played baseball for fifteen years, there’s not much worse than playing baseball in the rain. 

Vancouver took advantage of the two errors Spokane provided them, third baseman Ryan McCarty scored in the bottom of the first after being hit by a pitch, and scoring off of a throwing error from Indians centre fielder Cole Carrigg. The Canadians pitcher Kevin Miranda  and the defence behind was solid for the first two innings, however when the top of the third inning came around it fell apart. After securing the first two outs of the inning, Spokane rallied behind a couple of well-timed hits and errors from the Canadians to score three, to make the score 3-1. 

Miranda only lasted four innings, allowing three runs on five hits, racking up three errors and bringing his ERA up to 3.55. He moves to 1-1 in the season as a starter. Blake Adams, starting pitcher for the Indians, lasted six innings only allowing one run on two hits, with four strikeouts. His ERA sits at an incredible 0.53 and is now 2-0 as a starter. 

As for the rest of the game, the Canadians couldn’t get much going and Spokane put up two more runs to put them up 5-1. It all looked pretty much over for Vancouver until the bottom of ninth. The Canadians took advantage of a couple of walks given to them by pitcher Sergio Sanchez, with two runners on base and one out, catcher Jackson Hornung hit a three-run home run to make it a score ball game. Unfortunately that was all the Canadians had in them, as first baseman Brennan Orf struckout, and left fielder Dylan Rock hit a fly ball to left field for the last out of the ball game. 

Vancouver used errors, walks and their well timed base hits to score their runs yesterday, but their measly .100 batting average last night wasn’t enough compared to Spokane’s 0.294 and their ten hits. 

The game tonight is postponed to tomorrow where they will now be playing a double head after their ‘Nooner at the Nat’. Ryan Jennings, 0-1, 0.75 ERA, gets the start for the first game tomorrow, and will be going up against Chase Dollander who has a 2.93 ERA. The Vancouver Canadians look to turn things around and find their first win over Spokane this season.

First pitch is tomorrow at 1:05pm at Rogers Field at Nat Bailey stadium, go out and support your Vancouver Canadians!

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