Today it was revealed that Uptown Corey Brown’s season is over. He’ll be having surgery on a torn ligament in his pinkie finger, which came from a face first slide into home plate last week.
What’s odd is that Brown [seen left] says he slides head-first because he’s "not the best person" at sliding feet-first. Apparently this is the second time he’s damaged a finger sliding head-first, and he’ll be having both seen to with season-ending surgery, but maybe a few sliding sessions might be in order over spring training.
Big news coming out of Tri-City is that the Dust Devils have set a new single season attendance record, with 70,004 paying customers having walked through their gates thus far. Good for them.
Of course, that figure puts them at second last in the entire league
in terms of home attendance, and if Yakima can raise 6500 people over
their next two home games, they’ll pass the Dust Devils and leave them
in last place, so take it with a grain.
In other news, Ian Walker, who you might recall did a series of video blogs for The Province earlier this season when he was granted a walk-on tryout for the team, is engaged to be married on the 29th of September.
Why is this newsworthy?
Oh, because he’s marrying Bif Naked [seen right].
Meanwhile, the Volcanoes want to eat our souls. Inoel Deaza, on the other hand, is looking to save us all.
The lineups:
VANCOUVER CANADIANS:
Bomber Pruitt DH
Runway Richard SS
Excellentic Sulentic RF
Amblin’ Hamblin 1B
Destructor Desme LF
The Frashmaker 3B
‘Given up on a nickname’ Rivera C
Lost Correa 2B
3-0 Keough CF
Dealin’ Deaza P
SALEM-KEIZER WITCH-KINGS:
‘Shufflin’ Shane Jordan CF
‘Bouncin’ Brock Bond 2B
‘Syndrome’ Downs 1B
‘Shakin’ Baker LF
‘Tetherball’ LaTorre DH
‘Undangerous’ Davis 3B
‘Billy Dee’ Williams C
‘Filthy’ Flores SS
‘Eh’ Edwards RF
‘Bow Wow’ Bauer P
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On to the game.
1st inning: No love for the C’s, though Julio Rivera gunned down another base-stealing attempt (he does that a lot, it seems - Vancouver’s catchers have thrown down 40% of all stealers this season), and as JD Pruitt continued his Week of Salvation with a lead-off double and Runway Richard again delivered the perfect sac bunt, a Danny Hamblin GIDP put paid to any scoring chances.
2nd inning: Started poorly for Inoel Deaza, as Garret ‘Shakin’ Baker drilled a solo shot over the wall in left, but he soon steadied the ship to get out of the inning.
3rd inning: The best way to describe the action is "feh."
4th inning: Action: none. I just had a short nap. It was very nice.
5th inning: Deaza starts to melt down, giving up a lead-off single to Bruce Edwards, then watching him not only steal on Rivera, but get 3rd on Rivera’s bad throw. A Shane Jordan sac fly brought him home, and Deaza just looked ordinary following that, as Brock Bond singled to right. Despite going up 0-2 on NWL co-MVP, Matt Downs, Deaza hung one up for him to smack for a double down the line. With the bases loading as he hit Garret Baker with a pitch, Deaza then walked in a run on four straight pitches. Seems the common knock on Deaza, that he crumbles with runners on the bags, remains true.
Leonardo Martinez enters the fray and gets the second out with an infield fly, but a wild pitch rolls in another run, then he walks Williams to load the bases once again before stumbling out of the inning without further damage. Martinez had previously given up five dingers to Salem-Keizer hitters this season, so we can be thankful the damage wasn’t hilariously bad.
With the wood in hand (no Senator Craig jokes, please), the C’s jumped out of the box in a delayed fashion in the bottom of the 5th, with Shane Keough drilling a 2-out, rock solid triple to right field that pinballed around in the away team bullpen chairs for a while, before JD Pruitt walked to get men on the corners. Runway Richard then squeaked a liner juuuuust over the S-K first baseman’s glove to bring Keough home while Pruitt machoed his way to 3rd base in a full stretch dive that just beat out the throw. Matt Sulentic, who is in the midst of a bit of a mini-slump of late, grounded back to the pitcher to end the frame, but big ups once again to Pruitt and Keough for demonstrating that not everyone is in a hurry to get home.
6th inning: A sparrow landed on my window ledge.
7th inning: The sparrow flew away. And Salem-Keizer struck out the side.
8th inning: JD Pruitt AGAIN leads off by getting on base, this time through a walk, but the C’s fail to get the ball out of the infield, leaving one stranded. Oakland and Toronto are in extra innings on TV right now, which at least keeps things from being too boring.
9th inning: Marco Scutaro smacked a 2-out double off the top of the center field wall… in Oakland. Eric Chavez 2.0, AKA Jack Hannahan, duly uppercutted a single to left center for the win. Back in Vancouver, the Salem-Keizer Sons of Female Dogs brought out their closer, NWL all-star Otero, who has a 0.48 ERA and has closed 18 games in 18 chances this season.
Which leads to the question of the day: What possible point is there in keeping a guy who is so dominant at this level… at this level?
A 1-out Justin Frash double off Otero keeps the game alive, but Julio Rivera’s third strikeout in the game (shocker) leaves it up to Walt ‘please let everything be a fastball’ Correa. He duly pops out and everyone is headed home with a tan.
A good game to miss, even if you missed it (like I did) because the missus crashed the car.
Brad Hertzler gets the ball tomorrow, and there’ll be fireworks afterwards. Again.
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