EUGENE – The Eugene Emeralds (38-28) were batting their way to first place in the High-A West for much of the season, but since things have quieted down quite a bit.
After falling to the Hillsboro Hops (29-36) by a final of 3-2 at PK Park, the Ems now sit 5.5 games behind the Everett Aquasox and in second place.
The story through the first six innings was Hillsboro’s starting pitcher Blake Walston who carried a perfect game through five innings and a no-hitter into the sixth, stymieing an Emeralds offense that had put up a combined sixty runs during the six-game series in Spokane.
Meanwhile, Hillsboro’s offense was held in check until the fifth behind three consecutive one-out hits. Cam Coursey started it with a double to center field, and Jorge Barrosa followed by doing the exact same thing, doubling to center field to allow Coursey to easily score and put the visitors up first, 1-0. Dom Canzone followed in the ensuing at-bat and teed off to right, a big blast of the two-run variety that made it 3-0, Hillsboro, after five.
That margin – and Walston’s bid for a no-hitter – held until the first batter of the seventh. Eugene’s do-it-all utility man Brett Auerbach stepped up and launched a solo shot to left, dropping down to one knee and blasting his fourth home run in fourteen games as an Emerald and his second homer in the last three games.
It stayed 3-1 until the ninth when the Emeralds, thanks to some timely hitting and some good fortune, got the rally going. Down to their final strike, Armani Smith singled to center field to bring the tying run to the plate, and Sean Roby followed by doubling to left to put the tying run on second with the winning run in the form of Tyler Fitzgerald coming up.
Fitzgerald, who entered the evening on a five-game hit streak but was hitless to that point, singled sharply to left to score Smith while Roby got the green light coming around third. However, the throw from Hops left fielder Eduardo Diaz was on the money to nab Roby easily at home and wrap a dramatic ending at PK Park that saw the Hops hang on, 3-2.
The Eugene Emeralds and Hillsboro Hops continue their six-game series at PK Park on Wednesday evening at 7:05 p.m.
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