First Place Canadians Crush Yakima, Claim Best Record in League
YAKIMA, WA – The Vancouver Canadians cruised past the Yakima Bears 10-1 Saturday night, and claimed the best record in the Northwest League. A group effort on the hill silenced Yakima’s bats, giving up only 3 hits over the first [...]

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Canadians Overpower Bears, Grab Share of First
The Vancouver Canadians played their most complete game of the season, crushing 13 hits, highlighted by Haas Pratt’s third home run in four games, as the C’s cruised past the Yakima Bears 7-4 Friday night and claimed a share of first place in the West division [...]

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Didn’t listen to the game (sorry, real life intercedes on occasion), but here’s the official press release from the club.
Canadians Pitchers Silence Bears, Win Second in a Row

YAKIMA, WA – Joe Scott pitched a gem and Zeke Perez provided the power as the Vancouver Canadians beat the Yakima Bears 3-2 to [...]

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So today I turned out for the C’s ‘press event’ that is the media softball game. It’s basically a ’staff vs media’ game that happens before each season, with plenty of beer and burgers, and a bunch of aging over-the-hill types (like myself) swinging a bat like retarded monkeys.
Usually the teams are created according to [...]

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Canadians Bats Explode in 9-6 Victory
Yakima, WA- The Vancouver Canadians got their first win of the season behind the bats of Haas Pratt (30th/2004, U of Arkansas) and Chris Tritle (19th/2000, Center-Point, Urbana) and the spectacular relief pitching of Windsor, Ontario-born Steven-Ryder Carter (26th/2004, Coastal Carolina) who got the win.
Carter entered the game in [...]

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Pratt 2 RBI Shot Not Enough For C’s in Opener
Hass Pratt provided the fireworks with a home run, but the Vancouver Canadians fell short in their first game, 10-4 at Yakima to open the 2005 Northwest League season. Pratt, a 30th round selection of the Oakland A’s in 2004 launched a 2-run shot in the [...]

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Hey folks. What you’re looking at right here is the first post on Notes from The Nat, a new blog designed to serve as a central repository of all info I can find about my local minor league baseball team, the Oakland A’s short-season rookie ball affiliate, the Vancouver Canadians.
This year is the one hundredth [...]

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