KITSAP 6
VICTORIA 2
All good things must come to an end.
It did Wednesday night for Victoria HarbourCats ace Alex Rogers (3-1), who suffered his first loss of the West Coast League season.
The native of Nanaimo was rocked for 10 hits and four runs in four innings as the Kitsap BlueJackets defeated the HarbourCats 6-2 to end Victoria鈥檚 modest win streak at two games.
鈥淎lex was due for one of those games after three impressive starts,鈥� said Victoria head coach Graig Merritt. 鈥淗e struggled with a bad mound tonight and that affected his slider. But that鈥檚 how baseball goes. The difference tonight were the three hits Kitsap got with two outs that scored four runs.鈥�
Among the four relievers who tried to stem the 16-hit Kitsap onslaught was Henry Omana, making his debut for the HarbourCats with an inning pitched and no hits or walks allowed with one strikeout. The six-foot-four, 225-pounder joined the club Wednesday after appearing in the 2015 College World Series for Cal State-Fullerton.
Jake Brewer took the win with four-hit, two-run, five strikeout performance over six innings for the BlueJackets.
Oregon State Beavers Pac-12 freshman Michael Gretler, a 2014 draft pick of the Boston Red Sox, led the Victoria offence by going 2-for-4.
The BlueJackets climbed back to .500 at 7-7, while the HarbourCats fell to 7-10.
Victoria concludes its series in Bremerton tonight.
