Moneyball: go home, collect $200.Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard For the second consecutive evening, Eric Sogard is the most popular man among 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. . A night after launching his first professional home run, Sogard drilled a grand slam grand slam n. 1. The winning of all the tricks during the play of one hand in bridge and other whist-derived card games. 2. Sports The winning of all the major or specified events, especially on a professional circuit. in the third inning in·ning n. 1. a. Baseball One of nine divisions or periods of a regulation game, in which each team has a turn at bat as limited by three outs. b. innings (used with a sing. to guide the Emeralds (24-13) to an 8-5 victory against Tri-City (12-25) on Thursday in front of a crowd of 4,828. Sogard pocketed $200 for the grand slam, adding to the $100 he made on Wednesday after hitting his first home run over a sponsor's billboard - meaning Sogard will be the one to buy his teammates' drinks in the near future. "I think I have to now," Sogard said. "Hopefully they won't get used to it." Eugene's Aeden McQueary and Andy Parrino walked to lead off the third inning before Luis Durango blooped a single in front of Tri-City center fielder Brian Rike to load the bases. After a first-pitch ball, Sogard blasted blast·ed adj. 1. Used as an intensive: I hate these blasted flies. 2. Slang Drunk or intoxicated. 3. Blighted, withered, or shriveled. the grand slam into some shrubs beyond the right-field fence. "I was hoping he'd come in there with a fastball, and he left it over the middle of the plate and I was able to get the head out on it," Sogard said. "It was middle in, kind of waist high. Just a beautiful pitch to hit." The Emeralds added a run in the fourth inning on an RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in triple by Durango before the Dust Devils For other uses of this phrase, see Dust devil (disambiguation). Dust Devils is an independently published role-playing game set in a spaghetti western setting, written by Matt Snyder. responded with three runs on a pair of Eugene errors in the fifth, cutting the deficit to 5-3. Eugene center fielder Danny Payne dropped a routine fly ball to begin the inning, allowing leadoff hitter In baseball, a leadoff hitter is a batter who bats first in the lineup. Strategy Leadoff hitters must possess certain traits to be successful: they must reach base at a proficient rate and be able to steal bases. Maruis Loupadiere to advance to second base. After a pair of outs - one that moved Loupadiere to third - Brian Aguailar walked on a full count to put runners on the corners. Everth Cabrera then looped an RBI single into center field before an error on a ground ball allowed two runs to score. Helder Velazquez hit the ground ball to Parrino at shortstop, but the ball skipped away as Parrino tried to field it. "I just tried to throw the ball to second before I had it in my glove," Parrino said. "I just got to slow it down out there. I was going too fast and one got away. "It's not my first error and it won't be my last. You've just got to let it go. The play's over and you've just got to move on and be ready for the next one." Each team scored a run in the seventh and after Tri-City cut the gap to 6-5 in the top of the eighth, Parrino came up with a clutch hit in the bottom of the inning Noun 1. bottom of the inning - the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat bottom inning, frame - (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat , slapping slapping, n massage technique that uses the flat palms of the hands percussively; a form of tapotement. See also tapotement. a two-out RBI double down the first-base line. "A little insurance never hurts," said Parrino, who batted ninth and finished the game 2-for-3 with two doubles and three runs. Durango finished 3-for-5 with two RBIs and a run. 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 ... 30 7 .811 - Eugene ... 24 13 .649 6 Vancouver ... 18 18 .500 11 1/2 Everett ... 14 23 .378 16 EAST DIVISION Boise ... 19 18 .514 - Spokane ... 16 20 .444 2 1/2 Yakima ... 14 23 .378 5 Tri-City ... 12 25 .324 7 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Eugene 8, Tri-City 5 Boise 7, Vancouver 4 Yakima 12, Salem-Keizer 2 Spokane 8, Everett 4 TODAY'S GAMES Salem-Keizer at Eugene Everett at Spokane Vancouver at Boise Tri-City at Yakima YAKIMA EUGENE ab r h bi ab r h bi Cabrera 2b 4 2 2 2 Durango lf 5 1 3 2 Velazqz ss 5 0 0 0 Sogard 2b 5 1 2 4 Rike cf 4 0 2 0 Baum 3b 3 1 1 0 Holcomb 3b 5 0 2 1 Kulbacki rf 4 0 0 0 Davis c 5 0 2 0 Payne cf 3 0 1 1 Loupadre rf 5 1 0 0 Blauer 2b 4 0 0 0 Clark lf 4 1 3 0 Carvajal dh 4 1 1 0 Reichert 1b 4 0 0 0 McQueary c 3 1 1 0 Aguailr dh 3 1 1 0 Parrino ss 3 3 2 1 Totals 39 5 12 3 Totals 34 8 11 8 Yakima... 000 030 110 -5 Eugene... 004 100 12x -8 E-Clark (1), Payne (1), Parrino (7). LOB - Yakima 10, Eugene 6. 2B-Holcomb (8), Clark (5), Parrino 2 (6), McQueary (2), Baum (8). 3B-Durango (6). HR-Sogard (2). SB-Payne (15), Sogard (4). IP H R ER BB SO Yakima Fabian L,1-5 5 5 5 5 3 5 Miller 2 3 1 1 0 0 Arnold 1 3 2 2 0 0 Eugene Garramone 4 2-3 5 3 0 2 3 Huff huff - To compress data using a Huffman code. Various programs that use such methods have been called "HUFF" or some variant thereof. Opposite: puff. Compare crunch, compress. 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 McBryde W,1-2 2 4 1 1 0 4 Woodard 1 2 1 1 0 1 Hynes S People May refer to the following people.
WP-Fabian, Arnold. HBP-by Fabian (Baum); by McBryde (Cabrera). Umpires-Jacob Danielson (plate), Spencer Flynn. T-2:34. A-4,828. |
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