by A.J. Coltrane
Jered Weaver got his first career no-hitter on Wednesday; his wife and parents were in attendance at the game. (image source here)
I think it’s safe to say that we’ve always rooted for Jered Weaver here at CSE, ever since we saw him in April 2006 pitching one of his last Triple A starts — he struck out 12 Tacoma Rainiers in only 6 innings. I found the box score:
RAINIERS 4, BEES 2
Completion of April 29 suspended game
| Salt Lake | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO |
| Aybar, ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Murphy, cf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| McPherson, 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Smith, 3b | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Morales, 1b | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Gorneault, rf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Napoli, c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Specht, 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Pride, lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Pavkovich, dh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Total | 29 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
| Tacoma | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO |
| Choo, rf | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jones, cf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dobbs, 3b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Morse, lf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sears, 1b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Brown, dh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Cabrera, ss | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Johnson, c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Youngbauer, 2b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 30 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 14 |
| Salt Lake | 011 000 000 | — | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Tacoma | 000 000 04X | — | 4 | 6 | 0 |
E — Smith, C 2 (2). DP — Tacoma 1. LOB — Salt Lake 6; Tacoma 4. 2B — Murphy, T (5); Morales, K (2); Gorneault, N (3); Morse, M (3); Cabrera, A (4); Youngbauer (3). HBP — Napoli, M. SH — Murphy, T (1). SF — Morse, M (2). SB —Jones, A (3); Dobbs, G (4).
| Salt Lake | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Moseley | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Weaver | 6.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 12 |
| Rouwenhorst | 0.1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jones | 0.2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tacoma | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Nageotte | 1.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Jimenez | 5.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Dorman | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Fruto | 1.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Nageotte faced 2 batters in the 2nd. Weaver faced 2 batters in the 8th.
W — Dorman, R (2-1). L — Rouwenhorst, (1-2). S — Fruto, E (2). HBP — by Fruto, E (Napoli, M). T — 2:42 A — N/A
(It’s actually harder than you might think to find a minor league box score from 6 years ago…) Remember the second game of the doubleheader, when Dallas McPherson lost that ball in the sun, then came back and smacked a home run to make up for it?
In a related sidenote, look at the 2006 Tacoma Rainiers roster. It’s no surprise that the M’s major league club is mediocre in 2012. The only two players of any real value were traded away (Shin-Soo Choo and Adam Jones). The rest of the squad were fringe major league talents. (I take that back, Mike Morse is having a solid, if unexceptional career. Did I miss anyone else?)
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You missed Asdrubal Cabrera, who was the SS for Tacoma in this game and just 20 years old at the time. Because we had Betancourt and Lopez up the middle, the guys who were supposed to be the anchors of the infield for many years, Bavasi brilliantly traded Cabrera for Eduardo Perez half way through 2006. Cabrera has been the Indians starting SS for the last few years and hit 25 HRS and made the AS team last season.
I had forgotten that SLC team had Eric Aybar, Mik Napoli and Kendrys Morales on it also, not to mention, Dallas McPherson.
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Well there is always……. Chris Schnelling, who now works at a grocery store near my sisters house in the meat department. My sister goes to chruch with Chris’s mom (or maybe both him and his mom.)
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