{"id":17638,"date":"2017-06-28T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T20:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:24:48","slug":"aurora-jays-winning-streak-hits-six-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-jays-winning-streak-hits-six-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Jays\u2019 winning streak hits six games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over a month has passed since the last time the AA Aurora Jays last saw a loss.<br \/>\nThey have left a trail of wins and postponements in their dust during the current six-game winning streak, as well as wins in ten of their last eleven.<br \/>\n\u201cIt feels like the most complete lineup we\u2019ve had in a number of years,\u201d said player manager Rob Wilson.<br \/>\nTheir most recent victory came on Sunday when the sun shone on Mansfield after a week\u2019s break, facing a Cubs lineup going the other way in the standings.<br \/>\nAurora was able to take a 4 \u2013 1 lead after falling behind 1 \u2013 0, before the Mansfield bats took hold and brought a 6 \u2013 5 lead into the top of the seventh inning.<br \/>\nAaron Giroux, the first batter up in the inning, was hit by the first pitch he saw before Chris Fafalios reached base on a single.<br \/>\nThomas D\u2019Andrade then laid down a bunt to advance both runners, while Brad Crosby brought them both home by hitting one to the fence.<br \/>\n\u201cIn the last few weeks Crosby\u2019s approach has looked more like his league-leading (on-base-percentage) last year,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cHe\u2019s a big part of our lineup, so to see him coming around is a great sign for us.<br \/>\n\u201cIn baseball it\u2019s rare to set up a plan four batters deep and have it come through, so it was a fantastic sign to see all four guys do their job. Especially given the irregular schedule with all the rain.<br \/>\n\u201cWe could have asked Fafalios to bunt and play for the tie, but we put faith in our guys and they got it done when it mattered.\u201d<br \/>\nChris Rettie cashed in Crosby as an insurance run before the inning was over, earning an 8 \u2013 6 victory.<br \/>\nVeteran Andrew Bukovec went five innings on the mound, before handing the ball to Zach Wiseman and eventually Lehmkuhl who earned the final two outs.<br \/>\nNext up for the Jays is a meeting with the Midland Indians (4-6-2) at Tiffin Park on Thursday.<br \/>\nThey return home on Tuesday to host the league-leading Orangeville Giants at Lambert Willson Park.<br \/>\nLineups were also announced last week for the annual All-Star game held in Midland, with Giroux, Fafalios, Lehmkuhl, and Ian Rettie getting the call for the Jays.<br \/>\nThe All-Star game goes the second weekend in July at Tiffin Park.<br \/>\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.ndbl.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a month has passed since the last time the AA Aurora Jays last saw a loss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}