ERRORS PROVE COSTLY

Despite a 4-for-4 night from Canadians DH Austin Davis and five solid innings on the mound from starter LHP Evan Smith, Vancouver’s defense allowed Salem-Keizer to grab a 4-3 victory on Friday night out at Volcanoes Stadium.

The game would feature three lead changes as Salem-Keizer opened the scoring in the bottom of the 1^st inning after 2B Junior Amion smacked a triple down the right field line and scored on a groundout.

Vancouver would score the next two runs of the game as C Kevin Garcia managed a deep sacrifice fly that scored 1B Juan Kelly to give the Canadians a 2-1 lead.

A solo home run from Volcanoes DH Julio Pena brought the game even before Salem-Keizer regained the lead in the bottom of the 6^th inning when Vancouver LHP Dan Lietz gave up three straight base hits before leaving the game.

Shortly after the departure of Lietz, C Brad Moss would hit a sacrifice fly chasing in 3B Miguel Gomez to help Salem-Keizer to a 3-2 lead.

The home town lead would extend to a pair of runs in the bottom of the 7^th inning when CF Brennan Metzger led off with a double and later scored on a sacrifice fly from 1B John Riley.

Vancouver would rally with a run in the top of the 9^th inning as RF Juan Tejada, SS Christian Vazquez and DH Austin Davis all connected for base hits off of Volcanoes closer RHP EJ Encinosa, with Davis’ single scoring Tejada.

However, with the tying run at third base in the form of pinch runner Rolando Segovia (in for Vazquez), Encinosa would get CF Earl Burl III to strikeout and 3B Alex Maldonado to ground out to preserve the 4-3 victory.

Notes:

The Canadians would commit five errors on the night while leaving eight runners on base in the loss…

Canadians starter LHP Evan Smith would go five innings allowing a pair of earned runs on four hits, striking out three to mark the second straight outing a Vancouver starter has gone five innings.

With the loss, Vancouver falls to 1-1 (.500) on the young NWL season while the Volcanoes improve to 1-1 (.500)…  Vancouver sends RHP Francisco Rios to the mound on Saturday night against RHP Nate Santiago…

First pitch Saturday is set for 6:35pm from Volcanoes Stadium.

Listen live at www.canadiansbaseball.com

WP:       Paniagua (1-0)

LP:         Lietz (0-1)

SV:          Encinosa (1)

Time:    2 hours 34 minutes

Attn:      3,061