The Vancouver Canadians lost 5-1 to the Eugene Emeralds at P.K. Park on Wednesday.
Vancouver scored the game’s first run in the top of the first inning when Dasan Brown doubled to left field with one out, went to third on an Eric Silva wild pitch and scored on a Michael Turconi sacrifice fly to left. Alex De Jesús walked but was left stranded.
The Emeralds got two runners on against C’s starter Ryan Jennings in the first inning. After Grant McCray struck out, Brett Auerbach singled to left and Carter Howell walked but Victor Bericoto struck out and Howell was thrown out by catcher Jommer Hernández for a 2-6 caught stealing and double play.
Garrett Spain was clipped in the leg by a Silva pitch in the top of the second but a Lyle Lin 4-3 double play ball would end the inning.
Eugene would take the lead for good when Ghordy Santos slugged a two-out, two-run home run to score an Adrian Sugastey single to right on a 1-2 pitch to begin the bottom of the second. Jennings would strike out McCray again for the third out.
Hernández doubled to left to start the third inning but Silva set down the next three hitters to leave the C’s backstop 180 feet away from home plate.
Jennings responded with a perfect bottom of the third that included Howell looking a strike three.
A Cade Doughty one-out walk was all the C’s got in the top of the fourth while Jennings struck out Luis Toribio looking to end another perfect frame.
Joe Kemlage set down the C’s in order with two punchouts in the top of the fifth but Eric Pardinho did Kemlage one better by whiffing the side by sitting down Santos, Edison Mora and McCray.
William Kempner worked the top of the sixth inning for the Emeralds and only yielded a two-out single to right by De Jesús.
Pardinho got the first two men out of the bottom of the sixth by freezing Howell looking at strike three for the second out. Bericoto kept the frame going with a single to right before Sugastey reached on a flare single to right just out of the reach of Lin at first base. Aeverson Arteaga then belted a three-run homer to left to expand Eugene’s lead to four.
Vancouver strung together two-out singles to left by Lin and Hernández but Em’s reliever Mat Olsen put up another zero on the board.
Ryan Boyer struck out Mora and overcame a McCray two-out walk to hold Eugene at bay after the seventh-inning stretch.
Vancouver put two more runners aboard with a two-out walk by De Jesús and an infield single to second by Doughty but Tanner Kiest was able to strand them.
C’s reliever Matt Svanson surrendered a Howell infield knock to short to start the eighth but induced Bericoto to hit into a 6-3 double play to douse that rally.
Other than a two-out single to right by Hernández, Tyler Myrick got through the ninth to end the game.
C-Notes
Vancouver falls to 37-27 on the season. The second through five teams are now over .500 with Eugene at 34-31, Spokane at 33-31 and Tri-City and Everett at 33-32. Hillsboro is at 24-41.
Adam Macko will pitch in the finale of the first half of the season against the Emeralds. The game is on CanadiansBaseball.com and MiLB.TV.
In a pair of transactions that slipped under the radar, 2021 Vancouver Canadians pitcher Andrew McInvale has joined the Kansas City Royals organization. He signed with the club on May 6 after being released on May 2 by the Miami Marlins and is currently pitching at Double-A Northwest Arkansas. The 2019 37th-round pick from Liberty was traded to Miami two years ago in a deal that brought outfielder Corey Dickerson and reliever Adam Cimber to Toronto and sent Joe Panik to South Beach.
2023 C’s catcher Juan Gonzalez was traded to the Chicago White Sox for cash on June 13. Toronto’s 19th-round pick from Miami Dade Community College had a hit and a walk in his lone game with Vancouver at The Nat on April 12. He is now with the Kannapolis Cannon Ballers.
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