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Sports >  Spokane Indians

Indians’ losing streak hits double digits

With one week remaining in the first half of the Northwest League season, the Indians’ offensive woes continued on Sunday night in their 10th straight loss as the Eugene Emeralds swept the five-game series with an 8-2 victory in front of 3,709 fans at Avista Stadium. The loss eclipses the 2006 team’s nine-game losing streak – the most since the Indians became a Single-A short-season club – and puts Spokane (8-22) three away from tying the Triple-A Spokane team in 1962, which lost a franchise-high 13 in a row.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Spokane Indians battle, but lose ninth in row

Certainly there’s a bottom line when it comes to losing, but it was the silver lining that stuck out on Saturday night. The Spokane Indians, losers of nine straight Northwest League contests after falling 3-1 in 11 innings to the Eugene Emeralds in front of 5,504 fans at Avista Stadium, tied the 1962 and 2006 Spokane teams’ franchise-high losing streaks.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Indians still at a loss

There’s not much manager Tim Hulett can say about his team’s current slump – the numbers at the plate, the results from the mound, the pricey fielding and throwing errors – that he hasn’t said already. And instead of sounding like a broken record, Hulett would rather see a big hit, which was again missing from Spokane’s game on Friday night as the Indians lost their eighth straight contest, 4-2 to the Eugene Emeralds, in front of 4,004 fans at Avista Stadium.
A&E >  Entertainment

Indians’ slide reaches seven after three late runs by Eugene

The six-game losing streak was all but over. The Spokane Indians just needed three outs and another clean inning of defense. It would have been a fitting ending, considering the Indians played better on Thursday night than they have in their last several outings. They even had a strong showing from their most recent roster addition, starting pitcher C.J. Edwards.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Indians, last in league in batting, fall again to Yakima

Had they been at a casino, the Spokane Indians wouldn’t have been disappointed to hit 21 on Friday night. And had they not hit 21 – scoreless innings, that is – perhaps the house would have won. But Spokane had no such luck and Yakima nearly earned a second straight shutout over the Indians as the Bears won 4-1 in Northwest League action in front of 6,934 fans at Avista Stadium.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Cold-hitting Indians lose again

Had they been at a casino, the Spokane Indians wouldn’t have been disappointed to hit 21 on Friday night. And had they not hit 21 – scoreless innings, that is – perhaps the house would have won.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

3 Spokane pitchers combine for shutout of 1st-place Yakima

Since they were already dressed for the occasion, Cody Kendall and the Spokane Indians figured they’d start the fireworks early. Wearing special red, white and blue jerseys for the Fourth of July, three Indians pitchers were explosive from the mound in Northwest League action on Wednesday night, as Spokane earned a 2-0 shutout of the first-place Yakima Bears in front of a sold-out crowd of 6,884 at Avista Stadium.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Spokane Indians pitcher Asher proves resilient

Tommy John was 31 years old in 1974 when Dr. Frank W. Jobe devised and performed a revolutionary new procedure – what we know today as Tommy John surgery – on the major league pitcher. Spokane Indians pitcher Alec Asher was only 14 – an incredibly young age for TJ surgery – when Dr. James R. Andrews performed the procedure on him in Birmingham, Ala.
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Heytvelt returns a champion after world-wide excursion

Josh Heytvelt may be a one-and-done kind of guy when it comes to Hoopfest, but he made it a good one. Heyvelt was the center of attention in front of nearly 2,000 spectators at center court on Sunday, scoring a team-high eight points as he and Douglass Properties teammates David Pendergraft, Brian Michaelson and Nik Raivio beat Red Monkey 20-11 in the men’s 6-foot-and-over elite division championship.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Beck delivers four hits to help Spokane win fourth straight

Spokane Indians right fielder Preston Beck isn’t considering a career change – though if he was, he looked primed for a “Dancing with the Stars” audition during batting practice Wednesday. “That’s how we roll,” Indians manager Tim Hulett joked. “Maybe that’s why he had four hits today.”
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Indians dance past Boise for sweep

Spokane Indians right fielder Preston Beck isn’t considering a career change – though if he was, he looked primed for a "Dancing with the Stars" audition during batting practice on Wednesday evening.
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Cantwell delivers in Indians debut

If Spokane ends up being just a stop on his way to the show – if Patrick Cantwell never graduates from minor league baseball – he’ll always have something major to remember. And in his debut at Avista Stadium on a rainy Tuesday night, the Spokane Indians’ newest addition – fresh off helping the Stony Brook University Seawolves on the school’s unprecedented run to the College World Series in Omaha, Neb. – gave an announced crowd of 2,912 something to remember.
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G-Prep lacrosse duo chosen for elite team

Two Spokane lacrosse players are hitting the road this summer. Gonzaga Prep seniors James Pelkie and Hayden Thomas have been selected as an attacker and midfielder, respectively, to play for the boys senior elite team with the Burnaby Mountain Selects Elite Touring Teams, based in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Sports >  Spokane Indians

Relief effort pays off

Shawn Blackwell fully expected to spin what scouts call a promising curveball as a Kansas Jayhawk after graduating high school just outside of Houston in 2009. Instead, the Texas Rangers threw the 6-foot-5 Spokane Indians right-hander a twist of their own, and he was forced to make a play – which as fans saw on Monday night at Avista Stadium, he’s perfectly capable of doing.