The Northwest League Vancouver Canadians extended their hot streak to eight wins in their last eleven games with a tight 4-3 victory over the Tri-City Dust Devils Saturday.
Despite falling behind to a ground-out RBI in the first inning after newly promoted Leonardo Gil booted the ball at third base, tight pitching from Matt Fitts kept […]

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It would be easy to take a little credit for the sudden upswing in the form of the Vancouver Canadians, being as this blog has blown holes through them for lack of effort for weeks now.
This past week, the clash of blog and team reached a flashpoint when Notes From The Nat went for […]

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When you go 2-3 with two triples and two runs scored, with a walk and an RBI, you’d hope you’re the player of the game.
But what if someone else goes 4-5 with a double, a run scored, and two RBI’s…? Then what?

And what if you’re doing this on the road, in someone other team’s […]

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No game report for yesterday’s game… because I’m not down with writing two reports for one game.
In the meantime, feel free to take aboard what I wrote for the Vancouver Sun:
Fresh off a series win against the Mariners-affiliated Everett Aquasox, and on a roll that has seen them win three of their last four games, […]

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Just when you think you have a team figured out, they go and change their entire gameplan, and come up with a change in form.
Though it’ll obviously take more than one win to claim ‘form’, the way the Vancouver Canadians won today’s nooner against the formerly dominant Eugene Emeralds indicates that, if they can’t beat […]

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That’s my game report.
If at least five players from this squad aren’t cut within the week, it’ll be criminally negligent.
Dusty Napoleon came back to Vancouver from Kane County tonight, and though it’s good to see The American Dream back again, he’s here because he was hitting like a Vancouver Canadian upstairs, so I’m not […]

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Seriously, just stop now, people.
I don’t know if there’s some sort of pool where the guy with the most errors this season wins $48 and a coupon to Subway, but the ball-booting and throwing into right field must stop.
The C’s are starting to get some bats moving now, and the pitching is still strong, […]

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