Tri-City Dust Devils

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."

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