Hillsboro Hops 2021 Schedule

[Monika]

The following is the 2021 Regular Season Schedule for the Hillsboro Hops.

The Hops are members of the newly formed High-A West league, formed out of Minor League Baseball's restructuring of its leagues and teams. The High-A West, formerly known as Class A-Advanced, is one of three restructured leagues playing at the High-A level, which is three grades below Major League Baseball (Triple-A, Double-A ranking higher than High-A).

In addition to Hillsboro, the new High-A West will feature five former Northwest League teams: the Eugene Emeralds, Everett AquaSox, Spokane Indians, Tri-City Dust Devils and Vancouver Canadians. All six teams will play in a divisionless league, abolishing the North and South (formerly East and West) divisions of the NWL.

The Boise Hawks and Salem-Keizer Volcanoes were not invited from the NWL to High-A West, and are no longer apart of MiLB. Boise is now a member of the reformed Pioneer League, the former Class-A Short Season league that is now an independent baseball league with granted status as a Partner league of MLB. Meanwhile, Salem-Keizer was not offered a player development license with any MLB club, forming their own independent league called the Mavericks League, which consists of four teams based in the Salem Metropolitan area and have all its games played at Volcanoes Stadium.

With the move up in the minor league baseball ranks, High-A West will play a 120-game season (60 Home/60 Away) versus the 76 games (38 Home/38 Away) played in the Northwest League. With the addition of games, the High-A West season will now begin in early May and run through mid-September.

Hillsboro remains with its parent MLB club affiliation, becoming now the High-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Hops has been in the farm system of the Diamondbacks since they moved to Hillsboro in 2013.

The Hops look to defend their 2019 NWL title after having defeated the Tri-City Dust Devils 3-2 in their dramatic best-of five Championship Series. The Hops took the first game 3-2 at home, before being blasted by the Dust Devils 9-1 in game 2. The teams went to Tri-City (Kennewick) where the Hops won game 3, 2-1, but lost game 4 by a 6-0 score leading up to the final deciding game 5. It was the Hops' win in that one which enabled them to claim the championship. The Hops advanced to the championship round after downing Salem-Keizer 2-0 in their best-of-three South Division Series.

The 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The schedule is broken up into week-long series blocks. The Hops will play an opponent six games from Tuesday through Sunday and have each Monday as an off day. For instance, they open the season at home against the AquaSox on Tuesday, May 4 and play a game each day through Sunday, May 9 before taking Monday off prior heading to Eugene to face the Emeralds for a six-game trip starting on May 11. They play two straight series at home from August 24 to September 5 against the Canadians and Emeralds. Their longest stint on the road is from September 7 to 19 against the Dust Devils and Canadians. The September 19 game against Vancouver is the season finale.

Of note, due to travel restrictions to Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadians will play their home games at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro, Oregon (home of the Hops). Therefore, during the Hops' "road games" at Vancouver will be played in their home stadium.

The Hops play their home games at Ron Tonkin Field in Hillsboro, which has an overall capacity of 4,500 persons, with 3,534 of that being permanent seating. The stadium was completed in 2013 with the first Hops game being played on June 17 of that year. In addition to 2019, the Hops also won the NWL championship in 2014 and 2015.

After the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team announced on March 17 that they have been cleared to play in front of a capacity of 25 percent of fans (or, about 1,125 persons).

SCtoC has listed the schedule below, followed by the home fields of the Hops' opponents. Times are subject to change, and times currently TBD will be updated when that information is released. Hops games can be head locally on KPOJ 620 AM with Rich Burk calling the action. Bold Green denotes home games. All times are pacific standard time. Results will be updated as they become available. Where available, click on the final score for the Northwest League boxscore of each game.

MAY
Game 1 -- Tue., May 4 - Everett AquaSox (W 4-1)
Game 2 -- Wed., May 5 - Everett AquaSox (L 2-3)
Game 3 -- Thr., May 6 - Everett AquaSox (L 1-12)
Game 4 -- Fri, May 7 - Everett AquaSox (W 7-2)
Game 5 -- Sat., May 8 - Everett AquaSox (L 0-3)
Game 6 -- Sun., May 9 - Everett AquaSox (L 7-8)
Game 7 -- Mon., May 10 - Eugene Emeralds (W 6-2) (doubleheader)
Game 8 -- Mon., May 10 - Eugene Emeralds (W 2-0) (doubleheader)
Game 9 -- Thr., May 13 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 2-8)
Game 10 -- Fri., May 14 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 1-3)
Game 11 -- Sat., May 15 - at Eugene Emeralds (W 11-5)
Game 12 -- Sun., May 16 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 2-5)
Game 13 -- Tue., May 18 - Vancouver Canadians (L 4-13)
Game 14 -- Wed., May 19 - Vancouver Canadians (L 1-6)
Game 15 -- Thr., May 20 - Vancouver Canadians (L 1-2)
Game 16 -- Fri., May 21 - Vancouver Canadians (W 4-3)
Game 17 -- Sat., May 22 - Vancouver Canadians (W 8-3)
Game 18 -- Sun., May 23 - Vancouver Canadians (L 4-5)
Game 19 -- Tue., May 25 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (W 5-3)
Game 20 -- Wed., May 26 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (W 5-2)
Game 21 -- Thr., May 27 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 6-7)
Game 22 -- Fri., May 28 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (W 3-2)
Game 23 -- Sat., May 29 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 0-2)
Game 24 -- Sun., May 30 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 3-6)

JUNE
Game 25 -- Tue., June 1 - at Everett AquaSox (L 2-16)
Game 26 -- Wed., June 2 - at Everett AquaSox (W 6-2)
Game 27 -- Thr., June 3 - at Everett AquaSox (W 7-2)
Game 28 -- Fri., June 4 - at Everett AquaSox (L 2-13)
Game 30 -- Sun., June 6 - at Everett AquaSox (W 5-3)
Game 29 -- Sun., June 6 - at Everett AquaSox, 4:30 p.m. (doubleheader; postponed from June 5 (rain)) - POSTPONED
Game 31 -- Tue., June 8 - Tri-City Dust Devils (W 7-4)
Game 32 -- Wed., June 9 - Tri-City Dust Devils (W 10-2)
Game 33 -- Thr., June 10 - Tri-City Dust Devils (L 0-6)
Game 34 -- Fri., June 11 - Tri-City Dust Devils (L 2-4)
Game 35 -- Sat., June 12 - Tri-City Dust Devils - POSTPONED to June 13 (rain)
Game 35 -- Sun., June 13 - Tri-City Dust Devils - (postponed from June 12 (rain) - POSTPONED
Game 36 -- Sun., June 13 - Tri-City Dust Devils, 1:05 p.m. - POSTPONED (rain)
Game 37 -- Tue., June 15 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 1-5)
Game 38 -- Wed., June 16 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 4-7)
Game 39 -- Thr., June 17 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 9-10)
Game 40 -- Fri., June 18 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 7-10)
Game 41 -- Sat., June 19 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 5-10)
Game 42 -- Sun., June 20 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 5-7)
Game 43 -- Tue., June 22 - Spokane Indians (L 3-6)
Game 44 -- Wed., June 23 - Spokane Indians (W 5-3)
Game 45 -- Thr., June 24 - Spokane Indians (W 6-4)
Game 46 -- Fri., June 25 - Spokane Indians (W 2-0)
Game 47 -- Sat., June 26 - Spokane Indians (L 3-9)
Game 48 -- Sun., June 27 - Spokane Indians (L 5-7)
Game 49 -- Tue., June 29 - Eugene Emeralds (L 2-8)
Game 50 -- Wed., June 30 - Eugene Emeralds (L 3-6)

JULY
Game 51 -- Thr., July 1 - Eugene Emeralds (L 1-3)
Game 52 -- Fri., July 2 - Eugene Emeralds (W 4-2)
Game 53 -- Sat., July 3 - Eugene Emeralds (W 8-5)
Game 54 -- Sun., July 4 - Eugene Emeralds (W 6-1)
Game 55 -- Tue, July 6 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 2-3)
Game 56 -- Wed., July 7 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (W 9-7)
Game 57 -- Thr., July 8 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 3-8)
Game 58 -- Fri., July 9 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (W 5-2)
Game 59 -- Sat., July 10 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 6-8)
Game 60 -- Sun., July 11 - at Tri-City Dust Devils (L 3-4)
Game 61 -- Tue., July 13 - Vancouver Canadians (L 2-3)
Game 62 -- Wed., July 14 - Vancouver Canadians (W 2-0)
Game 63 -- Thr., July 15 - Vancouver Canadians (W 7-4)
Game 64 -- Fri., July 16 - Vancouver Canadians (W 12-6)
Game 65 -- Sat., July 17 - Vancouver Canadians (W 4-3)
Game 66 -- Sun., July 18 - Vancouver Canadians (L 4-6)
Game 67 -- Tue., July 20 - at Eugene Emeralds (W 3-2)
Game 68 -- Wed., July 21 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 4-5)
Game 69 -- Thr., July 22 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 3-4)
Game 70 -- Fri., July 23 - at Eugene Emeralds (W 10-9)
Game 71 -- Sat., July 24 - at Eugene Emeralds (W 3-2)
Game 72 -- Sun., July 25 - at Eugene Emeralds (L 5-6)
Game 73 -- Tue., July 27 - Tri-City Dust Devils (L 1-6)
Game 74 -- Wed., July 28 - Tri-City Dust Devils (W 10-2)
Game 75 -- Thr., July 29 - Tri-City Dust Devils (W 6-1)
Game 36 -- Fri., July 30 - Tri City Dust Devils (W 5-2) (DH) (make up from June 13)
Game 76 -- Fri., July 30 - Tri-City Dust Devils (L 1-7) (DH)
Game 77 -- Sat., July 31 - Tri-City Dust Devils (L 7-8)

AUGUST
Game 78 -- Sun., Aug. 1 - Tri-City Dust Devils (W 4-1)
Game 79 -- Tue., Aug. 3 - at Vancouver Canadians (L 2-5)
Game 80 -- Wed., Aug. 4 - at Vancouver Canadians (L 2-3)
Game 81 -- Thr., Aug. 5 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 5-1)
Game 82 -- Fri., Aug. 6 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 5-3)
Game 83 -- Sat., Aug. 7 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 2-1)
Game 84 -- Sun., Aug. 8 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 7-5)
Game 85 -- Tue., Aug. 10 - Eugene Emeralds (W 3-2)
Game 86 -- Wed., Aug. 11 - Eugene Emeralds (W 10-6)
Game 87 -- Thr., Aug. 12 - Eugene Emeralds (L 6-11)
Game 88 -- Fri., Aug. 13 - Eugene Emeralds (W 7-0)
Game 89 -- Sat., Aug. 14 - Eugene Emeralds (L 6-11)
Game 90 -- Sun., Aug. 15 - Eugene Emeralds (L 3-4)
Game 91 -- Tue., Aug. 17 - at Spokane Indians - POSTPONED (8/22)-POOR AIR QUALITY
Game 92 -- Wed., Aug. 18 - at Spokane Indians (L 1-6)
Game 93 -- Thr., Aug. 19 - at Spokane Indians (L 3-4)
Game 94 -- Fri., Aug. 20 - at Spokane Indians (L 3-11)
Game 95 -- Sat., Aug. 21 - at Spokane Indians (L 7-8)
Game 91 -- Sun., Aug. 22 - at Spokane Indians (L 2-9) (make up from Aug. 17)
Game 96 -- Sun., Aug. 22 - at Spokane Indians (L 6-8)
Game 97 -- Tue., Aug. 24 - Vancouver Canadians (W 8-2)
Game 98 -- Wed., Aug. 25 - Vancouver Canadians (W 11-4)
Game 99 -- Thr., Aug. 26 - Vancouver Canadians (L 6-8)
Game 100 -- Fri., Aug. 27 - Vancouver Canadians (L 7-8)
Game 101 -- Sat., Aug. 28 - Vancouver Canadians (W 9-6)
Game 102 -- Sun., Aug. 29 - Vancouver Canadians (L 4-8)
Game 103 -- Tue., Aug. 31 - Eugene Emeralds (L 5-6)

SEPTEMBER
Game 104 -- Wed., Sept. 1 - Eugene Emeralds (W 7-2)
Game 105 -- Thr., Sept. 2 - Eugene Emeralds (W 6-5)
Game 106 -- Fri., Sept. 3 - Eugene Emeralds (W 7-4)
Game 107 -- Sun., Sept. 5 - Eugene Emeralds (L 1-2) - completed from Sept. 4
Game 108 -- Sun., Sept. 5 - Eugene Emeralds (L 1-6)
Game 109 -- Tue., Sept. 7 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 7:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 110 -- Wed., Sept. 8 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 7:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 111 -- Thr., Sept. 9 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 7:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 112 -- Fri., Sept. 10 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 7:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 113 -- Sat., Sept. 11 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 7:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 114 -- Sun., Sept. 12 - at Tri-City Dust Devils, 6:05 p.m. - CANCELLED (Covid-19)
Game 115 -- Tue., Sept 14 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 7-4)
Game 116 -- Wed., Sept 15 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 3-2)
Game 117 -- Thr., Sept 16 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 7-3)
Game 118 -- Fri., Sept 17 - at Vancouver Canadians (W 4-2)
Game 119 -- Sat., Sept 18 - at Vancouver Canadians - POSTPONED (rain)
Game 120 -- Sun., Sept 19 - at Vancouver Canadians (L 2-8)


TEAM VENUES
Eugene Emeralds - PK Park; Eugene, Oregon
Everett AquaSox - Funko Field at Everett Memorial Stadium; Everett, Washington
Hillsboro Hops - Ron Tonkin Field; Hillsboro, Oregon
Spokane Indians - Avista Stadium; Spokane Valley, Washington
Tri-City Dust Devils - Gesa Stadium; Pasco, Washington
Vancouver Canadians - Ron Tonkin Field; Hillsboro, Oregon*

* Vancouver will play all its 2021 home games in Hillsboro due to the travel restrictions at the United States/Canada border as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

TEAM MLB AFFILIATES
Eugene Emeralds - San Francisco Giants (NL West)
Everett AquaSox - Seattle Mariners (AL West)
Hillsboro Hops - Arizona Diamondbacks (NL West)
Spokane Indians - Colorado Rockies (NL West)
Tri-City Dust Devils - Los Angeles Angels (AL West)
Vancouver Canadians - Toronto Blue Jays (AL East)


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[Monika]

MONTHLY UPDATE: The move to High-A West was rough during the first month of the Hillsboro Hops season. They finish the month with an overall record of 10-14 (6-8 at home and 4-6 away). Their best success came with a 3-3 split in their last series of the month, on the road, against the Tri-City Dust Devils. Earlier in the month, they won both games of a doubleheader against the Eugene Emeralds (6-2 and 2-0, respectively) on May 10 at home.

Hillsboro started its season off with a 4-1 home win over the Everett AquaSox. However, they would go on to lose four of the next five in the series. Then came the doubleheader on May 10 against the Emeralds. Next up was a home series against the Vancouver Canadians. Vancouver will play its home games at Ron Tonkin Field this season due to travel restrictions between the United States and Canada due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the first series, the Canadians took the first two games, only to see the Hops claim to straight. Vancouver won games five and six heading into the series. 

The Hops open up June with a trip to Everett for a six-game series against the AquaSox. They follow that up with a home series against the Dust Devils and then are back on the road against the Emeralds. Toward the end of the month, the Hops get their first look at the Spokane Indians at Ron Tonkin Field. The month ends with the first two games of a six-game series at home againnst the Emeralds. The final four games of that series kick off play in July.

[Yeseeka]

MONTHLY UPDATE: It would be hard to find a tougher month of baseball for the Hops. They were 8-14 overall in June. Hillsboro finished 5-12 for the month at Ron Tonkin Field, but just 3-10 away. For the season, the Hops are 18-28 overall, They are 11-20 at home and 7-14 on the road.

The Hops actually started the month competitively; winning three of their first five games in an away series against the Everett AquaSox. They then had the last game of the series cancelled due to rain. They then split 2-2 against the Tri-City Dust-Devils before the remaining two games were cancelled. What happened next was an nine-game losing streak, starting on June 10 with those final two losses against the Dust Devils on June 10 through June 22 with finally the next day; 6-3 against the Spokane Indians at home. That would be the first of three straight victories over the Indians before dropping the final two of the series. Those final two, along with a pair of losses to the Emeralds closed out June with four straight losses.

Hillsboro will look to rebound as they face the Emeralds for four games to close out that series. Following that, they will meet the Dust Devils for a series in Tri-Cities, but will come home for a home series against the Vancouver Canadians. After that, they head south to meet the Emeralds for six games. The Hops close out the month with five games at home against the Dust Devils with the sixth and final game of that series coming on August 1.

[Monika]

END OF SEASON UPDATE: Hillsboro finished the final month-and-a-half of the season with a 19-23 mark, going 10-8 at home and 9-15 in away games. The Hops ended the season 52-60 overall and in fourth place in the High-A West standings. That position disqualified them for the playoffs as only the two top teams in the league qualified for a five-game championship series. The Hops went 12-20 overall in August (7-6 home and 5-14 away), and had a strong September finishing 7-3 during the last month of the season (3-2 home and 4-1 away).

Despite going under .500 through August-September had some highlights for the Hops. They won six straight from August 5 to 11 (four over the Vancouver Canadians and two over the Eugene Emeralds). They also won four of their last five games against the Canadians in "away" games. Due to travel restrictions between the United States and Canada because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Canadians played their home games at Hillsboro's Ron Tonkin field.

The seven-week span of games also featured some setbacks. The first major one being an eight-game skid from August 14-22 (two to the Emeralds and a complete six-game series to the Spokane Indians). A six-game series late in the season against the Tri-City Dust Devils was cancelled due to the Tri-City's being affected by COVID-19 protocols.

The Emeralds finished first in the standings at 69-50 (.580); just a half game ahead of the Indians, who finished 67-49 (.578). Spokane will face Eugene beginning Tuesday, September 21st in a best-of-five with all games being played at Avista Stadium. Eugene will be considered the home team in Games 3-5. This is due to the fact the Emeralds' lease at PK Park, the stadium shared with the Oregon Ducks, ran out on September 10th. Due to High-A West going full season as opposed to short season as in the past, Eugene has to consider opposing ballparks as "home field" until a solution can be found.

For the details of the championship series, click on our Spokane Indians 2021 Schedule.