Mistakes cost Dust Devils in 9-3 loss to Eugene on Friday
Sloppy defense and off-target pitching were no friends of the Tri-City Dust Devils in a 9-3 road loss to the Eugene Emeralds in Northwest League baseball Friday night.
Three Tri-City errors led to five earned runs. That on top of six walks issued by Dust Devils pitchers.
Braxton Lorenzini (3-5) lasted just three innings starting on the mound, striking out six but surrendering six hits, three walks and four runs, all earned.
Fernando Tatis Jr. accounted for two of Tri-City’s six hits with a double and a triple.
D.J. Wilson had three hits to pace Eugene (54-19).
The Dust Devils (32-41) returned home Saturday to begin the final three games of the summer, hosting Vancover through Monday. First pitch is 7:15 p.m. each night.
Emeralds 9, Dust Devils 3
Tri-City ab | r | h | bi | Eugene ab | r | h | bi | ||
Easley 2b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Wilson cf | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
Reed cf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Peguero 2b | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Potts dh | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Pieters 1b | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Young 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Galindo 3b | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tatis ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | Gmbrn dh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
White 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Short ss | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Asuncion rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | Payne c | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Magee lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Mitchell lf | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
DeLaCruz c | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Gracia rf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Totals 33 | 3 | 6 | 3 | Totals 33 | 9 | 9 | 7 | ||
Tri-City | 000 | 000 | 120 | — | 3 |
Eugene | 310 | 050 | 00x | — | 9 |
E—Tatis (5), White (11), Young (7). DP—Tri-City 1. LOB—Tri-City 5, Eugene 7. 2B—Tatis (4). 3B—Tatis (1). SF—Payne. SB—Easley (12), Wilson (21), Giambrone (6), Short (10).
Tri-City | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Lorenzini L,3-5 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 6 |
Perez | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Weickel | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Scholtens | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eugene | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
Hudson W,5-4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 |
Santana | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Minacci | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
WP—Lorenzini, Perez. HBP—by Minacci (De La Cruz). Umpires—H, Darius Ghani; F, Tanner Moore. T—2:36. A—3,388.
This story was originally published September 3, 2016 at 4:22 PM with the headline "Mistakes cost Dust Devils in 9-3 loss to Eugene on Friday."