Tanner Kirwer scored the only Vancouver run in Spokane Sunday.
Game 76 of the Northwest League schedule between the Spokane Indians and the Vancouver Canadians has been rendered meaningless. The Indians clinched the North Division title for the second half with a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canadians at Avista Stadium.
Tanner Gardner‘s RBI single in the fourth opened the scoring for Spokane against Elio Silva to score a Diosbel Arias single. A Starling Joseph fielder’s choice scored a Sherten Apostel single for the second Spokane run.
Spokane increased their lead to three when Isaias Quiroz homered to left off Silva in the fifth.
And the Indians take the lead!!!
Spokane plates two runs in the fourth inning. One off an RBI single by Tanner Gardner and the other off a fielder’s choice by Starling Joseph. Indians lead Vancouver 2-0 now in the fifth #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/yfcyTUZbKJ
— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018
The Indians add to their lead with a solo home run from @IQuiroz11. It’s his third longball of the season to give Spokane a 3-0 lead in the fifth #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/E91UKPnTyo
— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018
Rehabbing Texas Ranger Chi Chi Gonzalez retired all 15 hitters he faced.
What a start by @alexgonzalezchi! A perfect 5 innings and faced the minimum 15 batters🔥🔥🔥
5 IP, 0 ER, 0 Hits, and 4 Ks
The Indians lead the Canadians 3-0 in the top of the sixth inning #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/B2VNXV6SN8
— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018
Spokane lefthander Francisco Villegas sat down the next three hitters and Wes Robertson retired the first hitter of the seventh before Tanner Kirwer singled to break up Spokane’s no-hit bid. Griffin Conine walked and Yorman Rodriguez singled to score Kirwer but a Christopher Bec double play ball killed the rally.
Justin Watts and Orlando Pascual had three strikeouts apiece in relief for the C’s Sunday.
Justin Watts pitched 1-2/3 scoreless innings and Orlando Pascual tacked on 1-1/3 more scoreless frames to give the C’s another shot in the ninth.
Otto Lopez drew a walk with one out against Emmanuel Clase but Kirwer hit into a fielder’s choice and Conine grounded out to first to set off the celebration for Spokane.
Silva surrendered three runs on six hits and a walk with two strikeouts over five innings to take the loss. Watts gave up a hit and struck out three over 1-2/3 innings and Pascual issued one walk and struck out three over 1-1/3 innings.
C-Notes
The C’s conclude their season against Spokane in a 6:30 start at Avista Stadium. Sean Wymer (4-3, 5.01) gets the start for Vancouver. The game can be heard on TSN 1040 and CanadiansBaseball.com with Rob Fai.
C-Tweets
Homeward Bound pic.twitter.com/ygQYBs72bQ
— William Ouellette (@wouellette8) September 2, 2018
CANADIANS: Lots of opportunity behind home plate here at Avista Stadium… pic.twitter.com/NSc7GESZ9R
— Rob Fai (@RobFaiNation) September 2, 2018
Congrats, Sean Reid-Foley, on your 1st career @MLB win! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/aMqw5S50kG
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) September 2, 2018
SPORTSNET
Blue Jays minor-leaguer Nash Knight plays all 9 positions in 1 gameBy Josh Weinstein (@joshhweinstein)#Toronto #BlueJays #Jayshttps://t.co/aSmUkI67QO
— Blue Jays Aggregator (@BlueJaysAggr) September 2, 2018
Today’s GOOD NEWS STORY features @loganwarmoth and his grandfather Leland Warmoth. With the Dunedin Blue Jays down 5-3 in the 9th and Pop Pop celebrating his 87th birthday, this happened… pic.twitter.com/X3MNkBDJlN
— Greg Warmoth WFTV (@GWarmothWFTV) September 2, 2018
Sean Reid-Foley’s 10 strikeouts ties Jerry Garvin (4/14/77 vs. DET) for the most ever in a game by a Blue Jays pitcher within their first 3 MLB starts.
— Blue Jays PR (@BlueJaysPR) September 2, 2018
Noah Syndergaard’s final line:
9 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 K, 114 pitches.
Syndergaard (10-3) reaches double-digit wins before Jacob deGrom or Zack Wheeler. This was the first complete game of his career.
— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) September 2, 2018
