C's Settle For Split After 6-5 Defeat

EUGENE, OR – The Canadians plated five runs over the final three innings but fell 6-5 to the Eugene Emeralds (SF) Sunday afternoon at PK Park. With the loss, the C’s are now a half game back of the Ems for first place in the Northwest League and have a 2.5 game lead over Everett (SEA) for the final playoff spot next month.

Shutout to begin the seventh and trailing by three, Vancouver pushed one across to pull within two before a three-run homer in the bottom of the frame put the Emeralds in front 6-1.

Another C’s run in the eighth set up an edge-of-your-seat top of the ninth. Gable Mitchell started the stanza with his first professional home run and David Calabrese followed with a solo shot to make it 6-4. From there, a hit by pitch and two walks loaded the bases with two outs before Jaxson West worked a bases-loaded free pass to force home the third run of the inning and put the tying run at third. After a Eugene pitching change, a strikeout ended the game with the Ems on top.

Starter Landen Maroudis (L, 3-10) carried a shutout into the sixth and finished his day with 5.1 innings of two-run ball that featured three walks and five strikeouts. It was his seventh consecutive start of five innings or more.

All nine starters had a hit and four had multiple knocks in a game the Canadians outhit Eugene 13-8, but the two three-run frames from the Emeralds in the seventh and the eighth proved to be too much for the bats to overcome.

After an off day tomorrow, the C’s return to The Nat to take on Spokane (COL) for their final regular season home series of the year. Tuesday’s game begins at 7:05 p.m.

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