VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Interstat) — The Vancouver Canadians beat the Eugene Emeralds 5-4 on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026, at Scotiabank Field at Nat Bailey Stadium, taking a 2-0 lead in Game 2 of the Northwest League A-Short playoff series.

Gable Mitchell’s sacrifice fly scored Dariel Ramon for the deciding run. Cam Maldonado homered and drove in two runs for Eugene. Vancouver finished with nine hits, while Eugene had six. Vancouver hit two sacrifice flies and grounded into two double plays.

Carson Myers earned the win for Vancouver, improving to 6-3, and Ryan Slater took the loss for Eugene, dropping to 2-3. Troy Guthrie struck out seven over five innings, allowing two earned runs. Reece Wissinger pitched three scoreless innings of relief with four strikeouts. David Calabrese went 3 for 5 for Vancouver. Jordan Gottesman allowed two earned runs over 4 1/3 innings for Eugene with two strikeouts. Attendance was 4,735, and the game took 3 hours, 10 minutes. Eugene is now 78-54, while Vancouver is 66-67.