The Vancouver Canadians were tripped up by the Eugene Emeralds 6-1 at P.K. Park on Friday.

The first run of the game belonged to Vancouver in the second inning against Joe Whitman. A Robert Brooks one-out double to left field came home on a two-out double to left by Jean Arnaez as Alexander Suarez appeared to have trouble locating the ball in the sunlight and it snuck underneath his glove.

Eugene wiped out that deficit against Juaron Watts-Brown a half-inning later. An infield single to short by Quinn McDaniel and a jam shot to left field by Justin Wishkoski were bunted over by Zach Morgan on a 3-1 play. Garrett Frechette was grazed on the leg with a pitch to load the bases and Alexander Suarez came up with a two-run single to left. Wade Meckler walked to reload the pillows and Jonah Cox produced a sacrifice fly to left field to score Wishkoski for the Emeralds third run.

The Emeralds got a home run to center field from Diego Velasquez to lead off the fifth against Watts-Brown. They would add two more runs against Aaron Munson in the sixth. A Suarez leadoff walk was erased by a Meckler 4-6 fielder’s choice but Meckler, after swiping second, scored on a triple to right by Cox. Rodolfo Nolasco singled to right to bring in Cox for the final score of the game.

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Watts-Brown stranded Cox at third to end the first by striking out Velasquez to end the first. Cox drew a one-out walk and stole second base before moving to third on a Nolasco groundout to third.

JWB struck out McDaniel and stranded a two-out walk and stolen base by Wishkowski in the third. The C’s righthander left two more runners aboard in the fourth after Meckler walked and Cox singled to center by fanning Frechette and Nolasco to begin and end the frame. Watts-Brown ended his night in the fifth by striking out Frechette again to leave a one-out walk and steal of second by McDaniel on base.

Munson ended the sixth by getting Velasquez looking and McDaniel swinging to leave a Nolasco stolen base at second.

Kai Peterson struck out Morgan in the middle of a perfect eighth and Conor Larkin completed a perfect ninth with a punchout of Cox.

Vancouver could not do much of anything against Whitman. Jace Bohrofen and Dylan Rock singled to center with two outs in the third and fourth respectively. A Marcos De La Rosa double with one out in the eighth was eventually left at third in the eighth by Daniel Blair. Hunter Dula got away with a Peyton Williams walk to lead off the ninth with a game-ending double play.

Rafael Sánchez gets the start for Vancouver on Saturday in a 6:35 p.m. start time at P.K. Park. CanadiansBaseball.com will have the broadcast with Chris Georges on the call. The game is also on MiLB.TV. Pat Gallagher is slated to start the series finale for the C’s on Sunday.

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