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AFL Recap: Beau Sulser and Jared Oliva Help Peoria to Victory

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The Peoria Javelinas are running out of time to make a run at their division title. With seven games left going into Friday afternoon, they were four games back in the standings. The Javelinas took on the Salt River Rafters on the road and won 9-0, putting up runs in each of the last five innings.

Jared Oliva was the only Pirates player in the starting lineup. He batted fourth and manned center field. Oliva doubled in the second inning off of Shane Baz, then scored the first run of the game. It was the 11th double of the season for Oliva, which is three more than the second highest total in the league. He finished 1-for-4 with a walk, two runs scored and his ninth stolen base. Oliva now has a .338 average in 20 games, with 13 extra-base hits and 12 walks.

Beau Sulser came on in relief in the bottom of the fifth inning with a 2-0 lead. He tossed two scoreless innings, giving up one hit and a hit batter, while picking up a strikeout. Sulser had a 3:0 GO/AO ratio and threw 18 of 27 pitches for strikes. He now has a 3.65 ERA in 12.1 innings this fall.

Here’s the boxscore.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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