Tonight’s game was more than a baseball game for the Canadians, it was for a teammate, JD Pruitt who was beaned in the head with a ball in the 3rd inning.  Pruitt is alright, and last I heard from Rob Fai, he’s been released from hospital, but he dodged a bullet.
JD went down for minutes, […]

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When you’re five runs down before you even swing a bat, the tendency for many baseball teams would be to take your foot off the gas and ride it out. So if there’s a positive to come from yet another Ryne Tacker pitching implosion last night, it would be that the C’s didn’t give up, […]

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Don’t you hate those days when you go to a ballgame, all excited that your team is going to do really well, and then they get beat up by their opponents early in the game so you have to sit there for nine innings thinking ‘well, hopefully I’ll see a homerun… or someone has a […]

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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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When you’ve won three of your last four games, the tendency is to think you’ve turned a corner. The Vancouver Canadians could be forgiven for getting that thought in their heads right now, especially after a convincing come-from-behind win over the Everett Flipperkids, and I’m certainly not going to rain on that parade.
But I will […]

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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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