We saw the professional debut of Jorge Reyes for Eugene. He was formerly the star of the college world series a couple years ago when pitching for Oregon State. He pitched well for 4 innings on the helpful end of three double plays and only giving up one run on Anthony Phillips' 7th homer of the season.
Andrew Bovich pitched an inning for the Emeralds giving up a run. He has a strange motion that includes a small hop off the rubber as he's making his throw to the plate. Bob and I wondered if that was legal. We also wondered if the Aquasox Chris Kirkland's motion to the plate, where he takes a small step to the plate enroute to coming to his set position in the stretch was legal. The umpires seemed fine with both procedures.
For the Aquasox we had Chris Kirkland start the game and he again looked spotty through 6 innings. He had trouble finding the plate in the first inning, walking two but being saved by a nice double play around the horn 5-4-3. In the second he hit a batter and walked one, but left them both stranded when he struck out the number 9 hitter for the Emeralds. After giving up a home run to 19 year old Edinson Rincon in the third he eventually ran out of luck in the 5th inning. A one out controversial double down the first base line followed by a single (where Kirkland watched the line drive pop out of first baseman Gerardo Avila's glove and didn't cover the bag) and a sacrifice fly scored a run. A single followed to score another and then another single to score a third. On the final single, hit by Nate Frieman the 6'8" cleanup first baseman for the Emeralds, was hit off the wall in right but a nice throw by James Jones easily caught the lumbering Frieman.
Bob noted that the Emeralds probably would have the league's best leg wrestling team based on the size of their quads...
For Everett double players were a killer with 3 in the first 4 innings. They eventually got some hits and a rally against David Erickson in the 6th inning scored one and left two on base when Welington Dotel swung at three curveballs in the dirt to strike out...
Pat Dillon noted that Mario Martinez's last walk was on July 29th - he didn't walk in this game going 0-4 with a strikeout and hit into one of those double plays.
One of the low points in the game was where Jose Rivero was picked off second in the 7th inning with one out and Ben Billingsley on second. The first baseman snuck in behind Rivero and he was out by a yard.
The game ended on a screaming line drive by Trevor Coleman right at Emerald pitcher Nick Greenwood's head. Greenwood somehow got his glove up to catch the ball and Welington Dotel was easily doubled off first. It was one of the hardest hit balls of the night and it ended the game appropriately on another double play.
Here's the box score.
Here's the Herald story.
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