The Vancouver Canadians fell to 0-2 to start the second half of the Northwest League season but they rebounded with their first win to split their doubleheader against the Hillsboro Hops, an Arizona Diamondbacks affiliate, at Nat Bailey Stadium Thursday night.
Game one starter Andrew Case drops a ball at first base that would eventually lead to a second run for Hillsboro in the third inning. The New Brunswick native struck out his first batter looking but that was the only K he registered in three innings. He allowed two runs (one unearned) on four hits and three walks. He reached 95 miles per hour with one pitch but was usually around 90 for his outing.
Ryan McBroom lines out to right in this at-bat during the second inning but he would get it by the right fielder in his next at-bat as his two-run double tied the game at 2-2 in the third.
Franklin Barreto gets ready to greet his teammates after he and Max Pentecost crossed the plate on McBroom's double. The C's would go ahead in the fourth when Boomer Collins singled, advanced to second on an Alexis Maldonado bunt and scored on an error in right field after a Brenden Kalfus single.
Tim Mayza relieved Case in the top of the fourth inning in which he retired the side, punctuated by a strikeout on a 94 MPH fastball. However, Mayza was greeted in the fifth by a Taylor Ard home run and it went downhill from there. The lefty was mauled for five runs on seven hits in 1.2 innings.
Alberto Tirado stopped the bleeding with 2.1 innings of shutout relief. He ended the fifth with a strikeout that caught the batter looking at a 93 MPH heater. Tirado scattered two hits and a walk but the C's would drop game one of the doubleheader to Hillsboro by a score of 7-3.
This game might have turned out differently had Vancouver capitalized on a couple of opportunities. They loaded the bases with a lengthy two-out rally in the second inning but Brenden Kalfus grounded out. After a Kalfus single helped push across the go-ahead run in the fourth, Roemon Fields was hit by a pitch to put Kalfus at second with one out. However, Tim Locastro grounded into a double play to prevent the C's from building on the lead. Instead, Hillsboro starter Scott Schulz earned the win by lasting 6.2 innings before Dustin Loggins got the final out.
Kalfus made a nice throw from center field to catch a runner rounding too far off second base after a double in the fifth. Barreto reached base three times with a single, a walk and a hit by pitch.
Chase Mallard was given the starting assignment in game two and he set the tone with three scoreless frames, including a putout at first base to start the second. He struck out the next two hitters swinging on pitches clocked at 82 and 90 MPH. Mallard allowed just two hits and walked nobody.
Boomer Collins jumps on a pitch and singles up the middle in the second inning.
That scored Ryan McBroom as Canadians manager John Schneider hops in the air to watch Collins advance to second on the throw home. Sean Hurley would get on base after an error by the Hillsboro shortstop. Hurley and Collins would executive a double steal of second and third and an errant throw by the catcher would score Collins with the second run. An RBI single by Roemon Fields that cashed in a Christian Vazquez base hit capped off the three-run innning.
Adaric Kelly enjoyed a successful debut with the C's, limiting Hillsboro to one hit while striking out three over two scoreless innings. He used his exaggerated delivery to max out at 88-90 miles per hour with the fastball and 75-76 with a curveball.
Yeyfry Del Rosario is congratulated by catcher Seth Conner as the C's beat the Hops 5-2. Conner delivered an RBI single to finish off a two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth to give the C's a five-run cushion at the time. That proved to be huge after Del Rosario gave up a two-run homer to Elvin Soto in the seventh but he still got the save after striking out three batters in his two-inning stint. Kelly was the winning pitcher.
Franklin Barreto got the rally started in the sixth inning with a single and smartly advanced to second after a throwing error from left field. He would score on a McBroom single. The loss went to former C's pitcher Kyle Anderson, a member of Vancouver's 2012 and 2013 Northwest League championship teams. Anderson posted a 9-5 record with a 3.49 earned run average over his two seasons in Vancouver.
Game one starter Andrew Case drops a ball at first base that would eventually lead to a second run for Hillsboro in the third inning. The New Brunswick native struck out his first batter looking but that was the only K he registered in three innings. He allowed two runs (one unearned) on four hits and three walks. He reached 95 miles per hour with one pitch but was usually around 90 for his outing.
Ryan McBroom lines out to right in this at-bat during the second inning but he would get it by the right fielder in his next at-bat as his two-run double tied the game at 2-2 in the third.
Franklin Barreto gets ready to greet his teammates after he and Max Pentecost crossed the plate on McBroom's double. The C's would go ahead in the fourth when Boomer Collins singled, advanced to second on an Alexis Maldonado bunt and scored on an error in right field after a Brenden Kalfus single.
Tim Mayza relieved Case in the top of the fourth inning in which he retired the side, punctuated by a strikeout on a 94 MPH fastball. However, Mayza was greeted in the fifth by a Taylor Ard home run and it went downhill from there. The lefty was mauled for five runs on seven hits in 1.2 innings.
Alberto Tirado stopped the bleeding with 2.1 innings of shutout relief. He ended the fifth with a strikeout that caught the batter looking at a 93 MPH heater. Tirado scattered two hits and a walk but the C's would drop game one of the doubleheader to Hillsboro by a score of 7-3.
This game might have turned out differently had Vancouver capitalized on a couple of opportunities. They loaded the bases with a lengthy two-out rally in the second inning but Brenden Kalfus grounded out. After a Kalfus single helped push across the go-ahead run in the fourth, Roemon Fields was hit by a pitch to put Kalfus at second with one out. However, Tim Locastro grounded into a double play to prevent the C's from building on the lead. Instead, Hillsboro starter Scott Schulz earned the win by lasting 6.2 innings before Dustin Loggins got the final out.
Kalfus made a nice throw from center field to catch a runner rounding too far off second base after a double in the fifth. Barreto reached base three times with a single, a walk and a hit by pitch.
Chase Mallard was given the starting assignment in game two and he set the tone with three scoreless frames, including a putout at first base to start the second. He struck out the next two hitters swinging on pitches clocked at 82 and 90 MPH. Mallard allowed just two hits and walked nobody.
Boomer Collins jumps on a pitch and singles up the middle in the second inning.
That scored Ryan McBroom as Canadians manager John Schneider hops in the air to watch Collins advance to second on the throw home. Sean Hurley would get on base after an error by the Hillsboro shortstop. Hurley and Collins would executive a double steal of second and third and an errant throw by the catcher would score Collins with the second run. An RBI single by Roemon Fields that cashed in a Christian Vazquez base hit capped off the three-run innning.
Adaric Kelly enjoyed a successful debut with the C's, limiting Hillsboro to one hit while striking out three over two scoreless innings. He used his exaggerated delivery to max out at 88-90 miles per hour with the fastball and 75-76 with a curveball.
Yeyfry Del Rosario is congratulated by catcher Seth Conner as the C's beat the Hops 5-2. Conner delivered an RBI single to finish off a two-run rally in the bottom of the sixth to give the C's a five-run cushion at the time. That proved to be huge after Del Rosario gave up a two-run homer to Elvin Soto in the seventh but he still got the save after striking out three batters in his two-inning stint. Kelly was the winning pitcher.
Franklin Barreto got the rally started in the sixth inning with a single and smartly advanced to second after a throwing error from left field. He would score on a McBroom single. The loss went to former C's pitcher Kyle Anderson, a member of Vancouver's 2012 and 2013 Northwest League championship teams. Anderson posted a 9-5 record with a 3.49 earned run average over his two seasons in Vancouver.
