If there’s one thing that doesn’t surprise me anymore, it’s when the Vancouver Canadians get a nice fat crowd and get utterly destroyed on the field. It always happens. The more Fireworks Nights the team has scheduled in a season, the more losses that team will suffer.
Opening night, big crowd, huge loss.Fireworks night, big crowd, [...]

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Love it.
Walking in across Ontario St, the first image I saw of this season’s baseball was way off in the distance, the unmistakeable figure of Old Gerry in the press box, who covers the Canadians for I’ve-never-been-able-to-figure-out -who.  
He’s still alive, and perched in his regular spot next to The Sun’s Lyndon Little, and this [...]

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I never got around to a game report for yesterday’s nooner, but here’s the crib notes version: Errors killed a strong pitching outing.
That about sums it up.
The C’s managed nine hits and four runs, and the pitching staff held Salem-Keizer close, with Andrew Bailey giving up only three hits and two earned runs over [...]

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