Emeralds rally past Everett.Byline: The Register-GuardEVERETT, Wash. - The Eugene Emeralds The Eugene Emeralds (nicknamed the Ems) are a minor league baseball team in Eugene, Oregon, United States. They are a Class A team in the Northwest League, and have been a farm team of the San Diego Padres since 2001. showed their resiliency Sunday afternoon as they climbed back into a third-place tie in the West Division with Everett after a 10-8 victory in 10 innings INNINGS, estates. Lands gained from the sea by draining. Cunn. L. Dict. h. t.; Law of Sewers, 31. over the AquaSox in Northwest League The Northwest League is a class A minor league. The league is the descendant of the Western International League which ran as a class B league from 1937-1951 (with time out for WWII) and class A from 1952-1954. baseball. The Emeralds (11-10) came from behind twice in the game, and won by scoring three runs after two were out in the 10th inning. Pinch hitter pinch-hit intr.v. pinch-hit, pinch-hit·ting, pinch-hits 1. Baseball To bat in place of a player scheduled to bat, especially when a hit is badly needed. 2. Matt Antonelli Matt Antonelli (Born April 8 1985 in Peabody, Massachusetts) is a 2B prospect in the San Diego Padres organization. He bats and throws righthanded. In July 2007, Antonelli was named the best second base prospect in the minors by Kevin Goldstein of Baseball Prospectus. started the extra-inning rally with a double off reliever Rollie Gibson. Michael Epping got hit by a pitch, and Nicholas Kliebert drew a walk to load the bases. Andrew Fiorenza replaced Gibson and walked Kody Valverde to bring in Antonelli to break the tie. Then two runs scored on a fielding error by shortstop Ogui Diaz. Eugene banged out 13 hits, with Garner Wetzel collecting three and driving in three runs. They survived three errors. The Ems got a good effort by starter Brooks Dunn, who twice pitched himself out of early jams. He went four innings and allowed four hits while striking out four. He didn't give up an earned run earned run n. Baseball A run scored without the aid of an error, used in computing earned run averages. Noun 1. earned run - a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team . Dunn got into trouble in the bottom of the second when he gave up back-to-back singles with one out, and then uncorked a wild pitch. But he settled down to get consecutive strikeouts to survive the inning. The Ems scored in the third when Epping led off with a double, went to third on a balk balk the action of a horse when it refuses to obey a command to which it usually responds. See also jibbing. , and scored on a fielder's choice field·er's choice n. Baseball A play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing base runner, thus allowing the batter to reach first base safely. Noun 1. . Eugene added another run in the fourth after Dunn again pitched himself out of a jam with runners on second and third with one out by getting a strikeout strike·out n. Baseball Abbr. K or SO An out made by a batter charged with three strikes and credited to the pitcher who threw the strikes. Noun 1. and a ground out. Smith hit a double to center, and moved to third on Wetzel's single. Smith scored on a sacrifice fly by Jesus Lopez to give Eugene a 2-0 lead. Everett cut the gap to 2-1, capitalizing on a Eugene error in the fourth. The game changed gears in the bottom of the fifth, when Nicholas Tucci replaced Dunn and the hitters took over for both clubs. Everett scored three runs on three hits, including Manelik Pimentel's solo homer Noun 1. solo homer - a home run with no runners on base solo blast home run, homer - a base hit on which the batter scores a run to make it 4-2. In the sixth the Ems tied the score at 4-4. But the AquaSox jumped back ahead, 6-4, in the bottom of the sixth. The Ems again showed their ability to bounce back with three runs in the seventh on Wetzel's three-run homer. Everett tied the score with a run in the eighth off Rolando Valdez. But Valdez (2-0) did take Everett down in the ninth to earn the victory. EUGENE EVERETT ab r h bi ab r h bi Epping cf 5 2 2 1 Minaker 2b 5 1 3 1 Kliebert 2b 5 1 2 0 Graterol rf 5 0 1 0 Valverde c 5 0 0 2 Halman cf 4 1 1 2 Cooper dh 5 1 1 0 Sabatella lf 0 0 0 0 Cannon lf 6 1 1 0 Pimentel 1b 4 1 1 2 Smith 1b 4 3 2 0 White dh 4 0 2 0 Wetzel rf 4 1 3 3 Zorn dh 1 0 0 0 Lopez ss 4 0 0 1 Bonilla 3b 5 1 1 0 Aguilar 3b 4 0 1 1 Fernandez c 5 0 1 1 Antonelli 3b 1 1 1 0 Diaz ss 5 1 1 0 Dickey lf 4 3 3 0 Totals 43 10 13 8 Totals 42 8 14 6 Eugene... 001 102 300 3 -10 Everett... 000 132 010 1 - 8 E-Smith, Epping, Wetzel, Diaz. DP-Eugene 2. LOB-Eugene 10, Everett 12. 2B-Epping, Smith, Antonelli, Minaker, Dickey. 3B-Halman, Minaker. HR-Wetzel, Pimentel. S-Graterol. SF-Lopez. SB-Bonilla. IP H R ER BB SO Eugene Dunn 4 4 1 0 1 4 Tucci 1 4 3 3 0 0 Breit 2 2 2 2 1 3 Valdez W,2-0 2 2 1 1 1 1 Farrington 2-3 2 1 1 2 1 Rodriguez S Rodriguez or Rodrigues (rōdrē`gəs), island (1996 est. pop. 34,883), 42 sq mi (109 sq km), in the Indian Ocean, c.350 mi (560 km) E of Mauritius, of which it is a dependency. ,1 1-3 0 0 0 0 1 Everett Schilling 5 6 2 2 1 3 Ball 1 3 2 2 0 2 Mickolio 2 3 3 3 1 0 Gibson L,0-1 1 2-3 1 3 1 1 2 Florenza 1-3 0 0 0 1 0 WP-Dunn, Tucci, Schilling. BLK-Valdez 2, Schilling, Mickolio. HBP-by Breit (Minaker), by Breit (Halman), by Ball (Wetzel), by Gibson (Epping). T-3:43. A-2,670. NWL NWL Newell Rubbermaid, Inc. (stock symbol) NWL Northwest League (Boise, Idaho; baseball) NWL Northwoods League NWL North West London NWL Neverending White Lights (band) STANDINGS WEST DIVISION W L Pct. GB Salem-Keizer ... 15 6 .714 - Vancouver ... 14 7 .667 1 Eugene ... 11 10 .500 4 Everett ... 11 10 .550 4 EAST DIVISION Boise ... 9 12 .428 - Spokane ... 9 12 .428 - Tri-City ... 8 13 .381 1 Yakima ... 7 14 .333 2 SUNDAY'S RESULTS Eugene 10, Everett 8, 10 innings Yakima 9, Boise 2 Salem-Keizer 9, Vancouver 0 Tri-City 2, Spokane 0 TODAY'S GAMES Boise at Yakima Eugene at Everett Salem-Keizer at Vancouver Spokane at Tri-City |
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