{"id":17885,"date":"2017-07-26T12:10:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=17885"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:35:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T23:35:58","slug":"whirlwind-week-a-success-for-aurora-jays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/whirlwind-week-a-success-for-aurora-jays\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirlwind week a success for Aurora Jays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Jake Courtepatte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Six games in six days did nothing to dampen the spirits of the AA Aurora Jays, who picked up a crucial nine points in the North Dufferin Baseball League standings.<br \/>\nWith the schedule amped up late in the season following a tumultuously rainy year, the Jays put up a record of 4-1-1 over the week to sit comfortably in third place heading into the final week of the regular season.<br \/>\nThe Jays opened the week with a split decision at Lambert Willson Park on Tuesday, defeating the Bolton Dodgers 9 \u2013 1 before falling to the New Lowell Knights 12 \u2013 2, with Knights perennial All-Star Todd Gowan on the mound.<br \/>\nThey rebounded with three straight wins, first over the Clearview Orioles on Thursday before back-to-back wins Saturday over the Mansfield Cubs and Newmarket Cornhuskers.<br \/>\nThe 9 \u2013 0 win over the Cubs was highlighted by a no-hitter performance by Nathan Robinson, in a complete game effort.<br \/>\nIn Newmarket for an early evening matchup, the Jays\u2019 9 \u2013 8 win was split on the mound by Ian Milne, Zach Wiseman, and Thomas D\u2019Andrade, in what bench boss Rob Wilson called \u201ca dominant final frame.\u201d<br \/>\nOffensively, Robinson capped off his stellar day by going deep in his first at bat, while Ted Beadle went an impressive eight-for-eight on the day.<br \/>\n\u201cCrazy that is the second best day, behind Nate,\u201d said Wilson.<br \/>\nA rematch with the Knights on Sunday afternoon ended with a tie, after Devin Wu put up a masterful performance on the mound to allow just two runs.<br \/>\n\u201cDevin Wu pitched another great game,\u201d said Wilson. \u201cWe went down 2 \u2013 0 early but we chipped away with Chris Rettie cashing in the tying run, with two out in the sixth.\u201d<br \/>\nPutting in an entire seven innings, Wu gave up just six hits and three walks while striking out two batters.<br \/>\nThe Jays sit at a record of 18-6-1, two points back of the Bolton Brewers and five points back of the league-leading Knights.<br \/>\nThe final game of the regular season goes Sunday against the Barrie Angels (13-10-1) on the road, with first pitch set for 2 p.m.<br \/>\nFor stats, schedules, and more information, visit www.ndbl.ca.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six games in six days did nothing to dampen the spirits of the AA Aurora Jays, who picked up a crucial nine points in the North Dufferin Baseball League standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-27-10.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885","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=17885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}