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SIMPSON,
continued from Page 12
as the Tommy John Ligament,
Simpson had to have surgery
on his pitching elbow.
“I had to have a bone mar-
row transfusion. They took
bone marrow out of my hip
and put into my elbow, forc-
ing me to miss the 2014 sea-
son as well.”
Looking forward to 2015,
Simpson was ready to rock
and roll on the mound; except
for one problem.
“The bone marrow never
fused and the surgery didn’t
work.”
Simpson opted to have
Tommy John surgery to re-
place his injured UCL in his
elbow. This 12-18-month in-
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jury forced him to miss all of
the 2015 season.
The 2016 season is Simp-
son’s fi rst full season in which
he has been able to play since
getting drafted three years ago.
“Opening day for me was a
pretty big deal. This has been
the best-worse three years of
my life. Getting to where I am
at, and fi nally getting back on
the fi eld, there just isn’t any-
thing like it.”
Simpson pitched one in-
ning and recorded two strike
outs without allowing a run.
Simpson’s ability to bounce
back has come through some
wisdom of his high school
coach.
During his recovery time
after Tommy John surgery,
Simpson wasn’t sure how
much longer he could keep
playing and considered ending
his career after all the wear-
and-tear on his body.
“My coach told me that I
had my whole life to be aver-
age. There are average people
everywhere. I am a percent of
a percent being in professional
baseball. He just told me to
gut it out, and here I am.”
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LOSS,
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All seven runs were charged
to Adon, the losing pitcher
with an 0-1 record.
Jordan Guerrero, Tri-City’s
starter, pitched through the
bottom of the fi fth and be-
came the winning pitcher at
1-1. Evan Miller pitched the
next two innings and Jose Cas-
tillo the last two.
In the seventh and eighth
innings, the Volcanoes loaded
the bases with two out but
failed to score.
In the ninth, Geraldo
walked, Ryan Howard struck
out, and Quinn doubled to left
with Geraldo reaching third,
but Castillo retired the next
two batters.
Haines commented that the
game “defi nitely had a lot of
teaching moments.”
“It also reinforces things
about learning to play base-
ball,” he said.
June 26: Volcanoes 4,
Tri-City 3
A walk-off ninth-inning
run gave Salem-Keizer a win
that evened the series.
Tri-City scored the fi rst
run in the second inning and
made the score 2-0 in the top
of the fi fth, but the Volcanoes
tied the score in the bottom of
the fi fth. Salem-Keizer added
a run in the seventh and the
Dust Devils tied the score in
the eighth before the Volca-
noes came out on top.
Ashford Fulmer led off the
Volcano fi fth with a walk.
Gustavo Cabrera, who had
four hits in the game, singled,
and Kevin Rivera singled to
load the bases. Ryan How-
ard doubled both of them
home. Volcano starter Mac
Marshall had an off night for
control, allowing six walks,
two of which contributed to
Tri-City runs. Kendry Melo
relieved him after 4-1/3 in-
nings, and Jeff Burke closed
the game as the winning
pitcher at 1-0. Reliever Jesse
Scholtens took the loss at 0-1.
June 27: Tri-City 7,
Volcanoes 2
Stronger hitting and pitch-
ing by the Dust Devils meant
Salem-Keizer’s fi rst series loss.
Each Tri-City player got
at least one hit as the visitors
outhit the Volcanoes 12-6.
Starter Emmanuel Ramirez
struck out fi ve in his six in-
nings for his fi rst win against
no losses.
The Dust Devils scored
two runs each in the third and
seventh innings and one each
in the fi rst, second, and ninth.
The Volcanoes tied the score
in the bottom of the fi rst as
Jose Savinon, who had led off
with a triple, came home on
a wild pitch. In the Volcano
seventh, Gustavo Cabrera
walked, reached third base on
a grounder and an error, and
scored on a single by Kevin
Rivera.
Victor Concepcion started
on the mound for Salem-
Keizer and was the losing
pitcher at 1-2.
June 28: Hillsboro 6,
Volcanoes 0
The opener at Hillsboro
became the fi rst shutout of
the season for Salem-Keizer,
which lost two games in a row
for the fi rst time in 2016.
The Hops scored two runs
each in the fi fth, sixth, and
seventh innings, holding the
Volcanoes to four hits. It was
a scoreless game for 4-1/2
innings and the fi rst Volcano
game this season in which no
one scored for the fi rst three.
Hillsboro starter Tyler
Mark was the winning pitcher
at 1-2, going seven innings
with 10 strikeouts. The Hop
runs came on fi ve singles, two
doubles, and a force out
Volcano starter Hengerber
Medina took the loss for an
0-2 record. The only extra-
base hit for Salem-Keizer was
a double by Zack Bowers.