Hillsboro Hops History & Records Class A Affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks Ron Tonkin Field ● 4460 NE Century Blvd. Hillsboro OR 97124 ● (503) 640-0887 2013-2019 www.hillsborohops.com Contents 2 From the Editor 57 HOPS RECORDS 2013-19 73 Earned Runs Allowed 3 2013 Season Recap 57 Batting Records 73 Walks Allowed 4 2013 Game-By-Game Results 57 At-Bats 74 Strikeouts 5 2013 Statistics 57 Plate Appearances 74 Home Runs Allowed 6 2014 Season Recap 57 Batting Average 75 Hit Batters 7 2014 Game-By-Game Results 58 Slugging Percentage 75 Wild Pitches 8 2014 Statistics 58 On-Base Percentage 75 Balks 9 2015 Season Recap 58 On-Base Plus Slugging 76 Pitchers’ Pickoffs 10 2015 Game-By-Game Results 58 Runs Scored 76 Fielding Records 11 2015 Statistics 59 Hits 76 Errors 12 2016 Season Recap 60 Singles 77 Double Plays 13 2016 Game-By-Game Results 61 Doubles 77 Outfield Assists 14 2016 Statistics 61 Triples 78 Catchers’ Caught 15 2017 Season Recap 62 Home Runs Stealing 16 2017 Game-By-Game Results 62 Grand Slams 78 Catchers’ Pickoffs 17 2017 Statistics 63 Extra-Base Hits 78 Passed Balls 18 2018 Season Recap 63 Total Bases 79 Service Time Records 19 2018 Game-By-Game Results 64 Cycles 79 Games/Seasons 20 2018 Statistics 64 RBIs Played 21 2019 Season Recap 64 Runners Left On Base 79 Misc. Team Records 22 2019 Game-By-Game Results 65 Walks Drawn 79 Players/Pitchers Used 23 2019 Statistics 65 Strikeouts by Batter 80 Length of Game 24 Cumulative NWL Stats 2013-19 66 Stolen Bases 80 Attendance 24 Top 20 Win % in baseball 2013-19 66 Stolen Base Attempts 81 Official Game 25 Year-By-Year Team Statistics 67 Times Caught Stealing Temperature 25 From The Tonk to The Show 67 Times Hit By Pitch 26 WOW! The Hops and Walk-Off Wins 68 Sacrifice Bunts 27 Notes on a scorecard 68 Sacrifice Flies Photo credits: 27 All-time 1-0 games 68 Times GIDP Cover, season recaps and 27 All-time games decided by 10+ runs 69 Pitching Records 2017 All-Star Game: 27 Best/worst records by series length 69 Wins Craig Mitchelldyer 28 All-time results in extra-innings 69 Losses 28 Hillsboro & Eugene: a great rivalry 69 Saves Historical photo register: 29 Pinch-hit history 70 Winning Percentage Craig Mitchelldyer 29 Back-to-back home runs 70 ERA Bil Jacobs 29 Four- and five hit games 70 WHIP Michael Jacobs 30 Yearly NWL standings & leaders 70 Batting Avg Against 32 Results by category 2013-19 70 Innings Pitched 33 Hops Host 2017 All-Star Game 71 Complete Games 34 Career games played by position 71 Shutouts 35 Postseason box scores 71 No-Hitters 41 Single-season/career top 10 charts 72 Hits Allowed 47 Pictorial all-time Hops register 72 Runs Allowed HOPS HISTORY & RECORDS 2013-2019 | 1 From the editor: Welcome to my pandemic project. And I’m sure it’s still not perfect. It’s entirely I had been meaning to put together a Hops record possible I’ve missed a thing or two. Rest assured that book—though nothing on the scale you see here—for a if I have, it wasn’t for lack of effort. few years. And now, as I write this near the end of the As I went through the box scores time and time endeavor, I realize none of it would have happened again, it occurred to me to expand the document to had I not been stuck at home for three months. With other sections, and it blossomed into the project you my Pac-12 Network television gigs cancelled and see here. nothing on the horizon from ESPN or NBC, I had some In the following pages, you’ll find: time. And yet—as with a few other things I’ve done in my life—had I known how many hours it would take, I -- Year-by year Hops recaps, including—yes—the probably would not even have started. game-by-game results and yearly statistics I used to tape into my scorebook. Still, it was a joy to work on it. -- Single-season and career top ten charts. And it was borne out of necessity, for two reasons. First, until now, I would tape yearly stats and game-by- -- A yearbook-photo-style all-time register of the game results—two pages total from each previous 302 people to have played for the Hops. season—at the back of my scorebook. After seven -- Year-by-year standings in the Northwest League seasons, it was becoming unwieldy transferring 14 since 2013—a.k.a. “The Dawn of Time”—when the pages and taping them in. I needed a document with Hops entered the Northwest League. them all in one place. -- And many fun odds and ends, such details on the Second, while career and season records are easy to Hops’ incredible total of 39 walkoff wins, their all- come by, single-game records are not. In other words, time record in extra-inning games, and tons more. simply checking each year’s chart makes it easy to Want a listing of every pinch-hit ever recorded by a determine which Hops player has the most doubles in a Hops player? Read on. (And, in case you didn’t know, single year (Joey Rose, with 21 in 2018). But what take a guess which team has the best winning about most doubles in a single game? Let’s say a Hops percentage over the past seven seasons among all player hits two-baggers in each of his first two at-bats. 160 clubs in minor league baseball…) The question quickly becomes, “What’s the Hops’ record for most doubles by one player in a single My hope is that you will find Hillsboro Hops History game?” Well, my broadcast partner, Matt Richert, and & Records 2013-2019 as interesting as Matt and I will I, were left shrugging our shoulders. We didn’t know. find it useful during our broadcasts. Well, now we do. (It’s three, accomplished three My other hope is that, now that the structure of times—by Todd Glaesmann, Luke Lowery and Daulton this history and record book is complete, and with Varsho. You wanna know the record for most doubles seven years of history already recorded, it will be in a game by an opponent against the Hops? I got that relatively easy to update these records after every covered too.) season. I’ll bet I can get it done in under 50 hours. To build this record book required one of two things: This time, no pandemic necessary. first, somehow set up a database of all Hops box Enjoy! scores, which would require paying someone else, require hundreds if not thousands of hours to set up, and would still not be infallible. The second option— the one I chose—was to painstakingly go through all 555 box scores in team history by hand… not once, but Rich Burk dozens of times, focusing on each record one at a time. TV & Radio Play-By-Play Announcer As you might imagine, this option took hundreds of Hillsboro Hops hours. 2 | HOPS HISTORY & RECORDS 2013-2019 2013 First things first: The Hops played the first game in franchise history on June 14, 2013—a 3-2 loss at Salem- Keizer. Center fielder Brian Billigen was the first batter, second baseman Ryan Gebhardt had the first hit, and third baseman Jordan Parr scored the first run. Two days later, in the finale of the series in Keizer, Josh Parr— Jordan’s brother—hit the first home run in team history. Hops open their new yard: Beautiful Hillsboro Ballpark (it wouldn’t be renamed Ron Tonkin Field until the following season) opened on Monday, June 17, 2013—1,015 days since the previous professional baseball game in the Portland area (played by the Portland Beavers). The Hops treated the fans to a 12-0 win over Eugene, with Professional baseball returned to the Portland area on Jordan Parr hitting the first home run at the new park. June 17, 2013. Local youth baseball players, surrounded by members of the Hops, delivered the ceremonial home Crazy, but true: The Hops scored runs in each of the first plate on Opening Night, 1,015 days after that very home six innings in the first game at their new park en route to plate was unearthed from PGE Park in downtown Portland the 12-0 win. Through the end of the 2019 season, it following the Triple-A Portland Beavers’ final game. remains the only time in franchise history, home or road, pitching for the Hops. Other strong prospects included that the Hops have scored in six consecutive innings in the pitchers Jimmie Sherfy and Jose Martinez and first same game. baseman Daniel Palka. Hey 19: On July 7, 2013—the 24th game in club history— No-no magic in heat of pennant race: The Hops entered the Hops played the longest game they’ve ever played, a the final weekend of the season one game behind Salem- 19-inning, 5-4 win over the Vancouver Canadians. (With Keizer in the second half South Division standings, minor league baseball’s new extra-inning rules instituted needing a three-game sweep in Boise, and hoping Eugene in 2018, this record isn’t going anywhere.) could take two of three in Keizer. With all of that on the Humble beginnings: The Hops stumbled out of the gate in line, Hops right-hander Kyle Schepel (“skay-pul”) tossed a their first year, losing 25 of their first 33 games.