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AFL Recap: Jared Oliva Continues to Hit, as Peoria Loses a High-Scoring Contest to Salt River

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The Peoria Javelinas came into Friday afternoon’s game against the Salt River Rafters with a 7-5 record. Early in this game, it looked like they were on their way to their eighth win in a one-sided contest, but an 8-0 lead in the third inning turned into a 10-9 deficit by the sixth inning. Salt River held on for the 10-9 victory.

Jared Oliva was the only player from the Pirates in the starting lineup. He batted second and played right field. Oliva went 2-for-4 with a walk, RBI, two runs scored and two stolen bases. He’s hitting .371 through his first 11 games, with ten walks, ten runs scored, and he’s 7-for-7 in steals.

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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