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Eugene catcher Colt Morton leads the Northwest League in home runs with nine this season
Morton is also the Emeralds’ cleanup hitter and is currently batting .270.
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16 runs off 17 hits against Boise in its 10th victory of
the season. Four Emeralds blasted home runs and
eight of the nine hitters had at least one RBI. After the
sixth inning, Eugene was already leading 15-0.
"I don't know if we used up all of our hits that one
night, but the last two games, we haven't come out
and hit the ball like we could," Diaz said. "We're get
ting guys on base, but we're just not getting key hits
here and there with guys on base."
Leadoff hitter and right fielder Matt Thayer, who has
a team-leading .377 batting average, said it is impor
tant for his team to bring a consistent approach to
every at-bat. Thayer had seven hits and scored three
runs in the five-game home stand against Boise.
"We can't go out some days and have everybody
feeling it," Thayer said. "Offensively, we struggled and
we can't let that escalate and snowball into a big strug
gle. It's real tough and 1 think it gets worse and worse
as the game goes on."
One of the few reliable contributors on offense has
been catcher Colt Morton, who is the team's cleanup
hitter. Morton, who had two home runs and five RBIs
in the last week's five-game home stand against Boise,
said the day off on Monday is something the team
needs to recharge.
"The day off is always good because you try and sit
back and try to get away from things," said Morton,
who is batting .270 with a league-leading nine home
runs. "So we're going to take advantage of the day off
and come out ready Tuesday ready to swing the bats
and take a good approach up there and score a lot
more runs."
Eugene visits Spokane, the 2003 Northwest League
champion, for the opening game of a five-game series
beginning today at 6:30 p.m. The Emeralds return to
Eugene's Civic Stadium on July 18 for a six-game se
ries with Everett.
NOTES
Eugene lost the five-game series against Boise 2-3
and have a 5-8 home record ... Eugene pitchers
Jonathan Ellis and Mike Ekstrom continue their suc
cess as part of the piggyback pitching rotation. The
duo combined for zero runs and seven strikeouts in
eight innings in Friday's 16-1 victory. The pair will start
again on Thursday... Ekstrom leads the Emeralds with
three wins and has allowed zero earned runs in 12 1/3
innings and six appearances.... Boise leads the all-time
series against Eugene 124-112.
alextam@daHyemerald.com
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