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Preview: Bikini Atoll

Bikini Atoll preview. The island's unreachable crevasses and impenetrable forests conceal many mysteries and dangers! #comics #comicbooks

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Award-winning SF author Cixin Liu's stories released as graphic novels

Award-winning SF author Cixin Liu’s stories released as graphic novels

Just released by London-based publisher Head of Zeus, under its Ad Astra imprint, are the first four English language adaptations of award-winning Chinese SF author’s Cixin Liu novels, including The Wandering Earth, with art by Stefano Raffaele, and The Village Teacher, with art by Zhang Xiaoyu. A number of the creators working on this project are omitted from online bookseller catalogues, so…

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C's Recap - Salem-Keizer Win Slugfest Over Canadians In Series Opener

C’s Recap – Salem-Keizer Win Slugfest Over Canadians In Series Opener

McGregory Contreras cracked his eighth home run of the season in Salem-Keizer Thursday. The Vancouver Canadians held a three-run and a two-run lead but lost to the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes 11-10 at Volcanoes  Stadium Thursday night. The C’s fall to 8-6 in the second half but still maintain their lead atop the North Division as Spokane, Everett and Tri-City also lost Thursday. The C’s jumped out to…

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C's Recap - Conine, Lopez, Polizzi & Podkul Help Canadians Catch Boise In The End

C’s Recap – Conine, Lopez, Polizzi & Podkul Help Canadians Catch Boise In The End

Otto Lopez keyed a two-run rally for Vancouver in the seventh inning Saturday. The Vancouver Canadians came up with enough timely hitting, pitching and defence as they downed the Boise Hawks 4-3 at Nat Bailey Stadium Saturday night. The C’s still maintain a one-game advantage on Spokane for first place in the North Division after the Indians took their third straight against Salem-Keizer. Boise…

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C's Chat - Chris Bec

The final C's Chat for 2018 is with 2018 #VanCanadians catcher Chris Bec (@KingBec3). Miami, FL native 5th round pick of #BlueJays in 2018 from @UMaine Black Bears. Posted .351 OBP with 16 SB for the C's in 2018. #Jays

Chris Bec made 23 starts behind the plate for the Vancouver Canadians in 2018.

2018 Vancouver Canadians catcher Chris Bec steps up to the plate and behind the plate in the latest edition of C’s Chat.

If you go by the saying ‘game recognizing game’, the 5-foot-11 Bec could have a promising future in professional baseball. The Miami native was an outfielder and shortstop at Coral Springs…

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Tanner Kirwer scored the only Vancouver run in Spokane Sunday.

Game 76 of the Northwest League schedule between the Spokane Indians and the Vancouver Canadians has been rendered meaningless. The Indians clinched the North Division title for the second half with a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canadians at Avista Stadium.

Tanner Gardner‘s RBI single in the fourth opened the scoring for Spokane against Elio Silva to score a Diosbel Arias single. A Starling Joseph fielder’s choice scored a Sherten Apostel single for the second Spokane run.

Spokane increased their lead to three when Isaias Quiroz homered to left off Silva in the fifth.

And the Indians take the lead!!!

Spokane plates two runs in the fourth inning. One off an RBI single by Tanner Gardner and the other off a fielder’s choice by Starling Joseph. Indians lead Vancouver 2-0 now in the fifth #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/yfcyTUZbKJ

— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018

The Indians add to their lead with a solo home run from @IQuiroz11. It’s his third longball of the season to give Spokane a 3-0 lead in the fifth #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/E91UKPnTyo

— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018

Rehabbing Texas Ranger Chi Chi Gonzalez retired all 15 hitters he faced.

What a start by @alexgonzalezchi! A perfect 5 innings and faced the minimum 15 batters🔥🔥🔥

5 IP, 0 ER, 0 Hits, and 4 Ks

The Indians lead the Canadians 3-0 in the top of the sixth inning #GoSpo #OneMoreWin pic.twitter.com/B2VNXV6SN8

— Spokane Indians (@spokaneindians) September 2, 2018

Spokane lefthander Francisco Villegas sat down the next three hitters and Wes Robertson retired the first hitter of the seventh before Tanner Kirwer singled to break up Spokane’s no-hit bid. Griffin Conine walked and Yorman Rodriguez singled to score Kirwer but a Christopher Bec double play ball killed the rally.

Justin Watts and Orlando Pascual had three strikeouts apiece in relief for the C’s Sunday.

Justin Watts pitched 1-2/3 scoreless innings and Orlando Pascual tacked on 1-1/3 more scoreless frames to give the C’s another shot in the ninth.

Otto Lopez drew a walk with one out against Emmanuel Clase but Kirwer hit into a fielder’s choice and Conine grounded out to first to set off the celebration for Spokane.

Silva surrendered three runs on six hits and a walk with two strikeouts over five innings to take the loss. Watts gave up a hit and struck out three over 1-2/3 innings and Pascual issued one walk and struck out three over 1-1/3 innings.

C-Notes

The C’s conclude their season against Spokane in a 6:30 start at Avista Stadium. Sean Wymer (4-3, 5.01) gets the start for Vancouver. The game can be heard on TSN 1040 and CanadiansBaseball.com with Rob Fai.

C-Tweets

Homeward Bound pic.twitter.com/ygQYBs72bQ

— William Ouellette (@wouellette8) September 2, 2018

CANADIANS: Lots of opportunity behind home plate here at Avista Stadium… pic.twitter.com/NSc7GESZ9R

— Rob Fai (@RobFaiNation) September 2, 2018

Congrats, Sean Reid-Foley, on your 1st career @MLB win! 👏👏👏 pic.twitter.com/aMqw5S50kG

— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) September 2, 2018

SPORTSNET Blue Jays minor-leaguer Nash Knight plays all 9 positions in 1 game

By Josh Weinstein (@joshhweinstein)#Toronto #BlueJays #Jayshttps://t.co/aSmUkI67QO

— Blue Jays Aggregator (@BlueJaysAggr) September 2, 2018

Today’s GOOD NEWS STORY features @loganwarmoth and his grandfather Leland Warmoth. With the Dunedin Blue Jays down 5-3 in the 9th and Pop Pop celebrating his 87th birthday, this happened… pic.twitter.com/X3MNkBDJlN

— Greg Warmoth WFTV (@GWarmothWFTV) September 2, 2018

Sean Reid-Foley’s 10 strikeouts ties Jerry Garvin (4/14/77 vs. DET) for the most ever in a game by a Blue Jays pitcher within their first 3 MLB starts.

— Blue Jays PR (@BlueJaysPR) September 2, 2018

Noah Syndergaard’s final line:

9 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 11 K, 114 pitches.

Syndergaard (10-3) reaches double-digit wins before Jacob deGrom or Zack Wheeler. This was the first complete game of his career.

— Anthony DiComo (@AnthonyDiComo) September 2, 2018

C’s Recap – Canadians Collapse Complete As Spokane Wins Second-Half North Division Title Tanner Kirwer scored the only Vancouver run in Spokane Sunday. Game 76 of the Northwest League schedule between the Spokane Indians and the…

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C's Recap - Canadians Lose Division Lead After Shutout In Spokane

C’s Recap – Canadians Lose Division Lead After Shutout In Spokane

Otto Lopez had the only extra-base hit for Vancouver Saturday night.

Failure is no longer an option if the Vancouver Canadians want to make the 2018 Northwest League playoffs. The Spokane Indians blanked the C’s 6-0 at Avista Stadium Saturday night to move one game ahead for first place in the North Division.

A two-out home run by Julio Pablo Martinez to left-center field in the third inning off

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Tanner Kirwer had a multi-hit night but it was not enough for the Vancouver Canadians Thursday.

The Vancouver Canadians gave back the ground they gained the night before in the North Division race after an 8-1 setback to the Everett AquaSox at Nat Bailey Stadium Thursday. The C’s lead is down to a single game once again after Spokane slammed Tri-City at Gesa Stadium.

The C’s got the game’s first run in the bottom of the second inning. Jake Brodt earned a one-out walk and scored on a McGregory Contreras triple to the wall in left-center field off Michael Plassmeyer. Sterling Guzman could not bring in the birthday boy Contreras as he struck out swinging. That would not be the last time the Canadians would strand a runner at third.

Josh Stowers is greeted by Ryne Ogren (#16) after scoring on a bases-clearing double by Matt Sanders in the third inning.

The AquaSox roared back in the top of the third against Jose Espada. It all started when Nick Garcia lifted a fly ball to left filed but Contreras dropped it and that opened the floodgates. A single by Ryne Ogren pushed Garcia to second before a Charlie McConnell base hit found a hole in the right side of the infield to bring home Garcia. Josh Stowers loaded the bases on a swinging bunt that was chopped to the third base side. Espada got to the ball but his momentum towards the third base line did not allow him to set his feet and make a throw so he wisely held on to the ball. Matt Sanders doubled to left to clear the bases to put the AquaSox ahead 4-1. Cal Raleigh drilled a double to right field to score Sanders to increase the Everett lead to four. Nick Rodriguez struck out and Bobby Honeyman popped up to short but a four-pitch walk to Connor Kopach ended the night for Espada. Justin Watts came in to retire Garcia on a fly ball to right as Everett sent 10 men to the plate.

Garcia started the next Everett rally in the sixth when he doubled to left off Denis Diaz. A wild pitch and an Ogren single brought Garcia all the way around to make it 6-1 Everett.

The Frogs tacked on two more runs in the seventh when Rodriguez walked and scored on a Honeyman double to right. Diaz fell behind Kopach 1-0 before being lifted for Connor Law and he coughed up a run-scoring base hit to Kopach that brought in Honeyman with the eighth Everett run.

Law would work a clean eighth inning and Marcus Reyes put up a goose egg in the ninth for Vancouver.

Penn Murfee earned the victory for Everett with 1-1/3 innings of scoreless relief. Carlos Hernandez proceeded Murfee with 1-2/3 shutout frames that included four punchouts. Jorge Benitez and Dayeison Arias split the last four innings evenly to complete a shutout night for the AquaSox bullpen.

Justin Watts contributed 2-2/3 scoreless innings and stranded both of his inherited runners Thursday.

C-Notes

Espada’s night started well enough. He struck out two hitters in a 12-pitch first inning and overcame a Nick Podkul error at second in the second inning. Podkul was not able to handle a sinking liner but Espada erased that mistake by picking off Rodriguez at first. Espada threw over twice and got Rodriguez on the second attempt.

Unfortunately for Espada, he could not get out of the third inning as he surrendered five runs (four earned) on five hits and a walk. Watts stranded two runners and put together 2-2/3 scoreless innings of two-hit ball while matching Espada’s strikeout total of three. Diaz surrendered three runs on three hits and two walks over one inning. Connor Law allowed a Diaz runner to score but pitched two shutout frames of two-hit ball with one whiff. Reyes struck out one in a one-hit ninth.

Sterling Guzman (#2), Brett Wright (#17), Jose Espada (#14), Nick Podkul (#6) and Jake Brodt (right) have a mound conference during the third inning Thursday.

The C’s tried to respond to the five-run Everett third with a rally of their own in the bottom half. Brett Wright lined a single to left and Podkul went to right field with a one-out base hit but Stowers robbed Otto Lopez of extra bases with a diving catch to his right in center field. Griffin Conine would strike out to leave Wright and Podkul stranded.

The fourth inning saw Tanner Kirwer triple to right where Garcia nearly slipped and fell when trying to go back on the ball. The one-out three-bagger would be stranded as Contreras struck out and Guzman grounded out.

A two-out walk by Podkul did not lead to anything further in the fifth before Kirwer tripled again to right with two outs in the sixth. Contreras would go down swinging again to leave Kirwer 90 feet away.

Hunter Steinmetz replaced Christopher Bec as the designated hitter in the seventh to see his first game action since August 13. Steinmetz would fly out to left. Bec saw his on-base streak end at 15 games after going 0-for-3. Hat tip to Jordy Cunningham in the C’s Media Relations department for that statistic.

Lopez had a walk in the eighth that went nowhere before the C’s last gasp in the ninth. Reilly Johnson struck out swinging before Contreras got his second hit of the night with a single to left. Guzman reached base on a throwing error from the mound by Arias but Wright struck out and Steinmetz grounded out to end the game.

Contreras and Kirwer had two hits each and Podkul had a hit and a walk. Wright had the other Vancouver hit while Lopez and Brodt heard ball four once. The C’s six hits and three walks were overshadowed by 15 strikeouts and they left nine men in scoring position with just one hit in nine opportuniites.

Johnson came into the game as a defensive replacement in left field in the eighth as Contreras moved to center and Kirwer was given the rest of the night off.

The strong performances of Josh Winckowski and Otto Lopez have received recognition from the Northwest League.

Congratulations goes to righthander Josh Winckowski and infielder/outfielder Otto Lopez. The Canadians and the Northwest League announced Winckowski as the Northwest League Pitcher of the Year while Lopez earned NWL All-Star team honours as an outfielder.

Lefthander Randy Pondler (5-4, 2.67) will start the final game of this three-game series for Vancouver. Rehabbing Seattle Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma (0-0, 9.00) will be on the hill for Everett. CanadiansBaseball.com and BNN Bloomberg Radio 1410 will broadcast the game. Rob Fai will call the action at 1:05 pm.

C-Tweets

Today’s @LansingLugnuts interview is with pitcher Donnie Sellers (@dsell_11), talking sliders, piggybacking, umpire prep, his ability to play outfield in a pinch, and more: https://t.co/C1g962hdeD #LugLife 🔩

— Jesse Goldberg-Strassler (@jgoldstrass) August 30, 2018

Entrevista con #McGregoryContreras Felíz Cumpleaños @vancanadians @MiLB @RobFaiNation @CunninghamJordy @SharleneCanning @RossBaron9 @BlueJays #NWL https://t.co/9VH6uvvfeK

— Jorge Parra (@UnderK9) August 30, 2018

North Vancouver’s Will McAffer collected his 7th win of the season last night and now leads the Northwest League in wins! #AtTheNat pic.twitter.com/ExWWCM4nGX

— Vancouver Canadians (@vancanadians) August 30, 2018

C’s taking a swing at bringing playoff baseball to the Nat for the seventh time since 2010 @VanCanadians #BlueJayshttps://t.co/6nLfwnxl08

— Steve Ewen (@SteveEwen) August 30, 2018

#OTD 23 years ago, Angels power-hitting prospect Todd Greene clubs his 40th home run of the season for the triple-A @vancanadians

With this HR, he becomes the first minor leaguer to belt 40 HRs in a season since Danny Tartabull did so with the triple-A Calgary Cannons in 1985. pic.twitter.com/NTn5jNiTUM

— Kevin Glew (@coopincanada) August 30, 2018

  C's Recap - AquaSox Annihilate #VanCanadians 8-1 #AtTheNat Thursday. C's lead Spokane by 1 game in NWL North. Kirwer 2/3 2-3B Contreras 2/4 Podkul 1/3 BB Wright 1/4 Watts 2IP 0R 3K 2RS Law 2IP 0R Reyes 1IP #BlueJays #Jays Tanner Kirwer had a multi-hit night but it was not enough for the Vancouver Canadians Thursday.