With a stiff wind blowing out to left center and the flags standing straight away from their poles when the first inning ended I said to Bob, "We might see 20 runs scored tonight." We did, and then some. And the Aquasox radio announcer in the 4th inning said, "We've already had enough action for two complete games." The score was 11-6 at that point.
Hawkins Gebbers has a haircut and has lost some of his fly away California surfer look.
Some notes from the game:
Gerardo Avila made a very nice pick of a throw in the dirt from the pitcher to end the second inning. He looks pretty comfortable around first base.
Anthony Phillips, a favorite of ours, made three bad errors (two fielding and one when he didn't have his foot on second on a force play...). A very bad night.
Taylor Stanton was the starting pitcher for Everett and hit 89 mph. He gave up 7 runs in 3 2/3 innings with 4 strikeouts and 3 walks.
Wellington Dotel hit the cutoff man with two throws in the same inning - something that we rarely saw him do last year. Maybe he'll be better at this in 2009. We'll see.
For Spokane, Aja Barto, their DH, looks like a good hitter - he had a home run and a single to go with a walk and two strikeouts. And Emmanuel Solis, their third baseman made several very nice plays on hard hit balls at third (though his batting average leaves a lot to be desired - it's around .150).
Here's the Everett Herald story.
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