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Friday, April 10, 2015
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A PERFECT GAME
FROM BEHIND THE PLATE
By SUE CODY
and ROBIN CODY
The Daily Astorian
L
et me explain something.
My brother Robin
likes to follow athletes
from this neck of the woods.
Something I think he inherited
from our dad, Bob Cody, who
played semipro baseball and
coached for many years. If a kid
was from Madras, like Jacoby
Ellsbury, or played in Portland,
like Shoni Schimmel, Robin
was in their corner, following
their careers.
In this vein, he loved to at-
tend Astoria playoff games like
those in 2006, ’08, ’09 and ’10
when Astoria played in the base-
ball championships. He was
there.
So when Robin saw 2010
Astoria graduate Dane Lund
behind the plate at an Oregon
State University game March 21
… I’ll just let him tell it, directly
from his email.
Dane
Lund
Keeping score, as you all
know, keeps us alert for freak
happenings and unlikely devel-
opments while others around us
might have no idea.
I remember a Portland Bea-
ver game where a guy was 6-for-
6 and batting again in the eighth
inning and people were leaving.
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so comfortably ahead that the
game, to them, was over. Thank
Dear Sue,
you, Dad. It was probably one of
I was surprised in Corvallis
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Saturday to see Dane Lund be-
periority over the rest of human-
hind the plate and hitting second
ity when it comes to baseball.
in the order for the Beavers vs.
That’s how it was Saturday in
Washington State. Not that I
Section 7, after six. In my card,
doubted Dane’s skills, but didn’t
I had 18 up and 18 down, in the
he play ball with Jordan Poyer
company of idiots and not one
and them in Astoria? So how is
sister to share the drama with.
he still in college?
You would have loved this.
I was in Corvallis to see the
In the top of the eighth there
OSU women basketball play
was, yes, a buzz through the
Gonzaga in the round of 32,
stands about all those zeros on
March Madness. They lost, a
the board. And in the ninth, even
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good game, but the baseball
the idiots were standing and
team was going to play the Cou- Pitcher Drew Rasmussen lifts up catcher Dane Lund after Oregon State’s first perfect cheering with each strike the
gars that night and again Satur- baseball game, March 21. It was the first perfect game since 1973 in the NCAA.
kid threw. I thought jinx, but the
day at 1 p.m. It would have been
kid on the mound was ice, per-
unconscionable, you know, for a perfect game. No, really. A seven-inning no-hitter against passed ball.
haps in a dream. Or a freshman
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tached, in a small notebook pitch was a swinging strikeout
games in the next 24 hours.
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be not all of Dane’s role in the
In all my years of playing and Dane would have ruined it.
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game.
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Ummm, no.
They didn’t hit a ball out of the mound.
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string catcher, but he caught A no-hitter, sure. I even threw a on base to have advanced on a sixth.
GARY HENLEY — The Daily Astorian File
Photo courtesy of Lund family
Dane Lund started early in the catcher position. Here he is at about age 10.
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Astoria High School catcher Dane Lund made the tag, but Newport’s
Tristan Metcalf had already crossed the plate in 2010.
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