C’s August Start – Impressive Crowds

The interleague contest between the two LA teams ends with Dodger southpaw keeping the Angel outfielder 0-for-3 while hurling eight innings in the team’s 3-1 victory over the Halos at Chavez Ravine. 

The Canadians are seven games back of the first place Emeralds in the second half standings, effectively eight games if you consider that Eugene holds the tiebreaker over Vancouver.

With 33 games left on the schedule, the C’s will look to catch fire while hoping that the Giants affiliate cools off.

After taking home Northwest League Pitcher of the Week honours after striking out nine across 5.1 innings, Javen Coleman continued his dominant pitching on Thursday night.

 Although he allowed a run, he punched out four batters across two innings to earn his first save of the season. FITTING IN NICELY: After smashing two home runs in his C’s debut on Wednesday night – including one in his first plate appearance – Alexis Hernandez added two more hits and a walk in his second game with Vancouver. 

After working nine offensive walks in last night’s game, the Canadians now have 520 walks on the season, the most in all of high-A. Among Northwest League leaders, the Canadians have four players amongst the top ten: Je’Von Ward (64, 1st), Sean Keys (60, 2nd), Eddie Micheletti (55, 6th), and Carter Cunningham (54, tied for 7th)

The Canadians wrapped up July with a 14-11 record that included several excellent individual efforts that saw Fernando Perez pitch his best baseball to date managing a 1.45 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, and 21 strikeouts against 4 walks in 18.2 July innings. 

Carter Cunningham had his best month with a .856 OPS including five home runs and 14 free passes. 

Cutter Coffey led the C’s in July with 29 hits, 15 runs scored, and 18 RBI producing an .868 OPS in 24 games. 

Edinson Batista (RH) gets the ball for the Canadians as he makes his 6th start and 24th overall appearances noting that the last time he allowed three earned runs across 3.2 innings at home against Eugene. 

The following game saw top Blue Jays prospect Arjun Nimmala along with excellent work from the pitching helped the C’s pull out a 4-1 win at Gesa Stadium noting that the C’s led from the opening pitch. 

Vancouver led wire-to-wire. A lead-off walk in the top of the first and a Cutter Coffey single in the next at-bat put runners at the corners with no outs before a double play plated the game’s first run. 

The C’s return home for a a six-game series with the Hillsboro Hops that saw the C’s drop the game in a match that was like playing on a sponge that saw them give the Hops a 10-7 win despite a late rally that saw them bring the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth.

A three-hit game from top Jays prospect Arjun Nimmala as well as strong pitching helped the Cs manage a 4-1 win over Tri-City at Gesa Stadium. 

Trailing 10-4 after eight and a half that saw three straight walks the bases only to have Alexis Hernandez drive in a run with a sacrifice fly followed by a single. 

Looking back we had a chat with Rob Fai in 2015 who was the Play by Play broadcaster and we were asked to reflect back on the interview. Enjoy!

The Hops went up by seven only to have Vancouver spoil the shutout when Cutter Coffey hammered his ninth homer of the year beginning the home half of the fifth only to have the Hops get that run back in the top of the sixth.

The teams traded two-run frames between the bottom of the seventh and the top of the eighth with Carter Cunningham doubled home one of the two C’s scores. 

All nine starters reached base and six had a hit. Sean Keys and Harry both walked four times for eight of the 13 free passes issued to the Canadians in the game that saw Edward Duran being the lone C’s hitter with multiple hits. 

Tonight’s game is set for a 7:05 first pitch with the C’s dropping two in a row are looking at getting back in the win column tonight.