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# 2019 Spokane Indians win season Opener 9-1
- URL: https://theprospecttimes.com/2019-spokane-indians-win-season-opener-9-0/
- Published: 2019-06-14T23:38:26.000Z
- Updated: 2019-06-14T23:38:26.000Z
- Author: Heath Criswell
- Tags: Ricky Vanasco, Spokane Indians season opener, #Migrated-1752558658676, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-07-15 05:51

The Spokane Indians season started today, Friday June 14th. They are the short season Single-A affiliate of our Texas Rangers.

Their 2019 roster was just recently released and there are 6 players that returned from the 2018 season.

They opened the season in Vancouver against the Vancouver Canadians at Scotiabank Field. As you may have guessed the Canadians are the Single-A short season affiliate of the Blue Jays.

**We have no pictures that we own to use but hopefully will someday.**

## Spokane Indians at Vancouver Canadians

The Spokane Indians win the season Opener by a final of 9-1\. The Indians continued the trend of good pitching at the lower levels of the Rangers farm system. They got solid pitching from right-handed pitcher *Ricky Vanasco*. Reports are that he was hitting 98 MPH already on his fastball and he threw.

> Vanasco already hitting 98 on the gun here in the first inning. Adrenaline for sure, but [@Rangers](https://twitter.com/Rangers?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=theprospecttimes.com) really like the velocity they've seen out of the young righty.
> 
> ? Dave Nichols SR (@DNicholsSR) [June 14, 2019](https://twitter.com/DNicholsSR/status/1139630552946921472?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw&ref=theprospecttimes.com)

**His line was 4 IP, 2 H, 2 BB, 7 SO and he threw 80 pitches-50 for strikes.**

## Teodoro Ortega

19 year old Right-handed pitcher from Panama City pitched 2 scoreless innings of relief and got the win.

**His line was 2 IP, 1 H, 1 BB and 3 SO on 32 pitches- 20 for strikes.**

The Indians also got scoreless innings from right hander *Nic Laio* and *Theo McDowell*. *McDowell* walked a batter and struck out 1 in his inning.

### The offense scored 9 runs on 8 hits

*Ryan Anderson* was the only one in the line-up with multiple hits. *Cristian Inoa* and *Luis Asuncion* each had multiple RBI's with 2 each.

We can expect some of the Rangers 2019 draft picks to be assigned to Spokane soon.