{"id":17834,"date":"2017-07-19T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17834"},"modified":"2017-07-26T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:22:07","slug":"aurora-jays-come-up-short-in-rally-against-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/aurora-jays-come-up-short-in-rally-against-leafs\/","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Jays come up short in rally against Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A seventh-inning rally fell just short of a comeback for the Aurora Jays in their only North Dufferin Baseball League action last week, falling to the Ivy Leafs 5 \u2013 4.<br \/>\nStuck in a rare offensive slump, the Jays fell short of five runs for the third game in a row while spreading out seven hits.<br \/>\nStephan Vallee was the first to cross the plate in the game to give the Jays a 1 \u2013 0 lead in the bottom of the first inning, before a string of hits including a pair of doubles plated four runs for the Leafs in the top of the third.<br \/>\nDown 5 \u2013 3 in the bottom of the seventh and final inning, Ian Rettie sent one out of the park to bring the Jays within a run, but it would be as close as they would get with pitcher Jeremy Uylenbroek shutting the door on the comeback.<br \/>\nNathan Robinson and Brad Crosby shared the work on the mound for the Jays, Robinson earning the loss after giving up five runs through the first four innings.<br \/>\nCrosby threw three shutout innings to finish the game while allowing four hits and striking out one.<br \/>\nJust their fifth loss of the season with under two weeks to go, it was the team\u2019s third in the last six games.<br \/>\nA week of ups and downs has created a logjam around the top of the NDBL standings, with the 14-5-0 Jays now in a three-way tie with the Orangeville Giants and Lisle Astros for fourth place in the ladder.<br \/>\nSeven points separates the Jays from the league-leading and reigning champion New Lowell Knights.<br \/>\nNext up for the Jays is a crucial meeting with the Clearview Orioles (16-5-1) Thursday night at Lambert Willson Park in Aurora, who sit just five points up on the Jays.<br \/>\nFirst pitch is scheduled for 7:30 p.m.<br \/>\nThis weekend will feature a busy Saturday for Aurora as they host the 6-17-1 Mansfield Cubs at Lambert Wilson, before heading to Newmarket in the evening to face the 3-17-1 Cornhuskers.<br \/>\nThursday\u2019s postponed game will be rescheduled for a later date.<br \/>\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.ndbl.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A seventh-inning rally fell just short of a comeback for the Aurora Jays in their only North Dufferin Baseball League action last week, falling to the Ivy Leafs 5 \u2013 4.<\/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-17834","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\/17834","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=17834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}