No baseball game is immune to rain, especially in Eugene, Oregon. The Eugene Emeralds and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes made it through three innings before getting rained out at PK Park. The game will resume at 5 p.m. Monday.
Through three innings, the teams matched one another in the run column with one a side. The Volcanoes broke through first in the top of the third when Blake Miller hit a sacrifice fly to center off starter Vladimir De La Cruz. Eugene responded in the bottom of the inning when Fernando Perez doubled home the tying run.
De La Cruz had trouble with his command and tiptoed in and out of trouble until he was pulled in the top of the fourth inning.
After a two hour rain delay, the game was nearly resumed twice. The players were on the field and ready when the rain came pouring down, forcing a delay. Brian Ragira is at the plate for Salem-Keizer with the bases loaded and two outs. The teams will play three innings, then break for half an hour and play the series finale, a full nine inning game.