Brewers start early
Collins, Coffin limit the hits in KCBL wins for the Athletics, Bombers
The Northside Gill Construction Brewers scored five runs in the first and six innings Wednesday to defeat the Charlottetown Jays 12-2 in Kings County Baseball League action.
The game was called after six innings due to the mercy rule.
Bryan Linton came in to pitch in relief of the injured Tyson Blue in the second inning to pick up the win for the Brewers. Chad Mackay suffered the loss with relief from Jamie Smith.
Will Jadis was 3-for-5 and Jed MacEwen 3-for-3 to pace the Brewer bats while Matt Myers and Linton each picking up two hits.
Mike Waugh had two hits and Brodie Hughes picked up a double to lead the Jays.
The Brewers play Sunday night at 6 p.m. against the Expos at Memorial Field.
Athletics 5, Canada Games 3
The Alley Stratford Athletics defeated Team P.E.I.’s Canada Games squad 5-3.
Steve Collins went the distance on a four-hitter to pick up the win while Dylan Cameron suffered the loss in relief of starter Garret Herbert.
Jonathan Arsenault had two hits to lead the A’s while Allister Smith, Marshall Ellis and Corey Dougay each went 1-for-3.
Chandler Laporte, Logan Macdougall, Nate Purchase and Cameron had the hits for the Canada Games squad.
Bombers 5, Chevies 0
Josh Coffin pitched a threehit complete game gem as the Peakes Tee Bombers shut out the Morell Chevies 5-0.
The Bombers jumped out to an early lead, scoring one run in the first inning, two in the second and two more in the third. Troy Coffin struck out four and gave up two earned runs in the losing cause.
The Bombers offence was led by Luke MacDonald, who was 2-for-3; Colin Myers, 2-for-4 with an RBI; and Dillon Doucette, 2-for-4 with an RBI.
Chris Hedefine was 1-for-2 for the Chevies while Scott Harper went 1-for-3 with a double.
Back when he played here, Josh Donaldson watched many a hard-hit ball get halted by the wind at the Oakland Coliseum short of going over the outfield fences.
So he didn’t want to count on his 10th-inning drive going far enough.
It had plenty on it, and it still feels plenty sweet to make an impact where he began his big league career in 2010 – even in a different uniform.
Donaldson hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the 10th against his former club, Justin Smoak also homered in the inning for his second long ball of the day, and the Toronto Blue Jays avoided a sweep by beating the Athletics 7-5 on Wednesday.
“Any home run’s nice. . . To be able to come through for my team like that, with the circumstances, I was able to do that a few times when I played here, too,” Donaldson said. “It was nice to kind of be able to come back and hit one in a timely situation.”
Frankie Montas (1-1) plunked Kevin Pillar to start the inning and bring up Donaldson, who clobbered a 1-2 fastball that cleared the wall in left-centre.
Liam Hendriks tossed two perfect innings over the eighth and ninth with three strikeouts for the A’s, but Montas couldn’t hold down Donaldson. After drawing three walks, the 2015 AL MVP hit his seventh homer of the year as he plays catch up after missing time with a calf injury.
“I hit it pretty well,” Donaldson said. “I didn’t know because how high that I hit the ball, I’ve hit many balls in this stadium that were like that and kind of got knocked down by the wind and the air.”
A’s manager Bob Melvin sent the third baseman out of town with the skipper’s bobblehead doll as a parting gift.
Ryan Tepera (4-1) pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the win, while Roberto Osuna finished for his 14th save.
Pillar hit a three-run homer in the second after Smoak’s solo shot earlier in the inning.
Chad Pinder’s sacrifice fly in the fifth following a leadoff triple by Rajai Davis tied the game 4-4. Davis also doubled twice and matched his career high with four hits, doing it for the 10th time and first since last July 2 at Toronto while with Cleveland.
“I’m just hoping that that’s the beginning of something that will continue,” he said.
Smoak homered three times in the series to bring his season total to 17, also leading off the second Wednesday against A’s right-hander Jharel Cotton. That came after Oakland went ahead in the bottom of the first on Khris Davis’ RBI double.
Cotton made his first career start against Toronto but is still waiting for his first win since being recalled from the minors on May 27. He allowed four runs and four hits in six innings, struck out four and walked four.