FRESNO – 7
VISALIA – 5
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The Grizzlies (29-18) kept pace in the North division, staying four games back of San Jose with the win. SS Ezequiel Tovar stayed hot with a 2-for-4 night including his seventh homer of the season. It was Tovar’s fourth straight multi-hit game. Visalia outhit Fresno 14-8 but came up short. Fresno has won three of the five games so far and go for a series win today while Visalia is looking for a split.
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3B A.J. Vukovich broke a 9th-inning tie with an RBI double as the Visalia Rawhide beat the Fresno Grizzlies 6-5 on Friday night. Visalia walked off with a win for the second time in this series which is now even at two games apiece.
Visalia’s offense pounded out 12 hits, led by 1B Ramses Malave who went 3-for-4 with two homers (his 3rd and 4th of the season) and 4 RBIs. Vukovich went 2-for-5 with 2 RBIs and 2B Ronny Simon went 3-for-5 from the leadoff spot with 2 runs scored.
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Stockton 3B T.J. Schofield-Sam brought home the winning run with a sac fly in the top of the 10th at San Manuel Stadium as the Ports beat the Inland Empire 66ers 5-4 Thursday night. Sam had a pair of RBIs on the night and CF Junior Perez had two hits and an RBI to lead the offense.
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Five Modesto pitchers combined to shutout Lake Elsinore on four hits at The Diamond Wednesday night as the Nuts won 4-0 to even the series with the Storm. The Nuts managed their four runs on just five hits and a bullpen day string of relievers put up zeroes the whole way
RHP Robert Winslow started and threw two scoreless innings. RHP Elvis Alvarado followed Winslow with an inning of relief, then came righty Kelvin Nunez (3 IP), lefty Jorge Benitez (2 IP) and RHP Travis Kuhn (1 IP). They combined to allow four hits and 10 walks while striking out six.
1B Robert Perez plated a run in the first inning on a groundout. C Matt Sheffler doubled in a run in the fourth and Modesto added two in the 7th on an RBI double by CF Victor Labrada and a single by SS Noelvi Marte.
Modesto (24-20) is now six games behind first-place San Jose in the North division. Lake Elsinore (21-23) is 2.5 games back of Rancho Cucamonga in the South division.
WEATHERLY SHUTS DOWN RAWHIDE
LHP Sam Weatherly (W, 2-3) went five shutout innings on Wednesday night, allowing just one hit and two walks while striking out nine as the Fresno Grizzlies beat the Rawhide 3-1 in Visalia.
SS Ezequiel Tovar doubled in a run and came around to score in a two-run fifth inning for the Grizzlies. RHP Robinson Hernandez pitched the final two innings for the save.
LHP Blake Walston (L, 2-2) went five innings for Visalia and allowed 3 runs (2 ER) on seven hits and two walks while striking out nine.
The Grizzlies (27-17) stayed three games back of San Jose in the North division while Visalia (12-32) is 11.5 games behind Rancho Cucamonga in the South division.
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 6
SAN JOSE – 9
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STOCKTON – 8
INLAND EMPIRE – 9
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In a battle of first-place clubs, the San Jose Giants belted out 14 hits and drew eight walks to drop the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 9-5 on Tuesday night. LF Alex Canario blasted two home runs (5, 6) and SS Marco Luciano hit his 9th bomb of the year.
Giants starter Ryan Murphy went 3 1/3 IP allowing 4 runs (3ER) on 5 hits and 2 walks with 6 strikeouts. The Giants bullpen stopped the back-and-forth scoring by holding the Quakes to just one run the rest of the way. Righty Austin Reich (W, 3-0) went 2 2/3 scoreless innings allowing just one hit and no walks with four strikeouts. RHP Clay Helvey finished off the game, going 2 IP with no runs, hits or walks and five strikeouts for his sixth save of the season.
The win put the Giants (29-14) up by three games in the North division while the Quakes’ lead in the South shrunk to 2 1/2 games.
VISALIA WALKS OFF WITH FOUR IN THE 9TH INNING
The Visalia Rawhide beat the Fresno Grizzlies for the first time in 13 tries this season with a four-run bottom of the 9th inning to walk-off with a win. Fresno took a 9-6 advantage into the home half of the 9th but Visalia got what it needed as CF Glenallen Hill Jr. capped off the rally with an RBI single to win it, 10-9.
Each team scored in five different half innings. 1B Neyfy Castillo led Visalia’s 14-hit attack, going 3-for-5 with a triple. Reliever Bobby Ay pitched the final two innings, allowing one run on one hit and three walks with a strikeout and picked up the win when the offense came through.
LAKE ELSINORE – 11
MODESTO – 5
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STOCKTON – 6
INLAND EMPIRE – 5
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TRANSACTIONS
VISALIA RAWHIDE – OF Jorge Barrosa, SS Roman Ruiz, LHP Denson Hull and RHP Brandon Pfaadt assigned to High-A Hillsboro
3B Alexander Hernandez assigned to Visalia from High-A Hillsboro. RHP Alex Valdez assigned to Visalia from ACL D-Backs
LAKE ELSINORE STORM– LHP Ramon Perez assigned to High-A Fort Wayne
INLAND EMPIRE 66ERS – 1B Julio De La Cruz assigned to Inland Empire from ACL Angels
3B Jose Bonilla assigned to ACL Angels
MODESTO NUTS – RHP Leon Hunter and LHP Max Roberts assigned to Modesto Nuts from Tacoma Rainiers.
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The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes maintained their 3-game lead in the South division with a breakout offensive game on Tuesday night, racking up 22 hits in a 15-4 win at Lake Elsinore. 2B/SS Jorbit Vivas led the hit parade with a 6-for-6 night, including a grand slam. Vivas’ fifth homer of the season was part of a 10-run 5th inning for Rancho Cucamonga (17-13).
Quakes starter Carlos Duran went four strong innings, allowing a run on two hits and a walk with seven strikeouts and left the game leading 2-1 when the visitors followed with a 10-spot in the top of the fifth inning to blow the game open.
DH Eddys Leonard went 3-for-6 with his fourth homer of the year and 2 RBI and 2 runs scored.
Lake Elsinore starter Nick Thwaits (L, 0-4) allowed two runs over the first four innings but was tagged for 6 ER after being relieved without recording an out in the fifth. The lone bright spot for the Storm bullpen was RHP Jose Geraldo who went two scoreless innings allowing three hits and no walks while striking out five. C Brandon Valenzuela went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Matthew Acosta went 2-for-4 with his second home run of the season for the Storm.
INLAND EMPIRE – 8
VISALIA – 1
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SAN JOSE – 7
STOCKTON – 5
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FRESNO – 9
MODESTO – 1
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MiLB.com has named Stockton’s Lazaro Armenteros Player of the Week and Lake Elsinore’s RHP Felix Minjares Pitcher of the Week.
LAZARO ARMENTEROS – Stockton’s OF/DH went 11-for-17 against Rancho Cucamonga with four doublles and a home run. Before being called up to High-A Lansing, Armenteros batted .431/.471/.615. Armenteros is Oakland’s #19 prospect.
FELIX MINJARES – Lake Elsinore’s Minjares appeared twice against San Jose and threw 6 2/3 innings allowing just one hit and no walks with 6 Ks.
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The Lake Elsinore Storm overcame a three-run deficit in the ninth inning Tuesday night to win 8-7 in the series opener at San Jose. Trailing 7-4, the visitors put four runs on the board to take the lead and reliever Jose Garcia made it stand up as The Storm maintained its half-game lead in the South Division.
Giants C Ricardo Genoves started the scoring with a solo homer in the second inning but Lake Elsinore came back with two runs in the top of the third. The Giants took the lead right back in bottom of the third, 3-2, and a four-run sixth gave the home team a 7-3 advantage. RHP Brooks Crawford came out of the Giants bullpen and the Storm pushed across an eighth-inning run on a Matthew Acosta RBI double to cut the deficit to 7-4.
Lake Elsinore got to reliever Justin Crump in the ninth to take the 8-7 lead. 1B Jack Stronach, C Brandon Valenzuela and 2B Euribiel Angeles all knocked in runs and Garcia (W, 1-1) pitched a scoreless ninth for the win. Crump only got one out and allowed four runs on three hits and a walk with one strikeout. RHP Austin Reich came in with a one-run lead but gave up the two-RBI single to Angeles.
Giants 2B Brett Auerbach went 4-for-5 from the leadoff spot with a double and two RBIs.
STOCKTON – 4
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 5
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VISALIA – 6
MODESTO – 9
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FRESNO – 1
INLAND EMPIRE – 0
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The Modesto Nuts stayed hot Thursday night with a 10-7 win over Inland Empire to go to a league best 12-3. The eighth straight win along with Fresno’s loss to San Jose put the Nuts two games up in the North division.
Modesto’s 11-hit attack got going early with a solo homerun from SS Noelvi Marte (Mariners #7) in the top of the first inning. Inland Empire pushed across two runs in the bottom of the first, highlighted by Kyren Paris‘ RBI triple.
The top of Modesto’s order was back at it in the third with a two-RBI double by Marte to make it a 3-2 game. Paris (Angels #6) doubled in a run in the bottom of the third and scored the go-ahead run later in the inning. But that would be the last lead the 66ers would hold as Modesto scored twice in the fourth, twice in the fifth and three times in the seventh.
Leadoff hitter Victor Labrada went 2-for-5 with three RBI and a pair of doubles for Modesto. His counterpart with IE, CF Elijah Greene, went 3-for-4 from the leadoff spot with three runs scored.
STOCKTON – 4
VISALIA – 3
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SAN JOSE – 3
FRESNO – 2
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 6
LAKE ELSINORE – 7
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A five-run second innings put the Inland Empire 66ers on top for good in a 9-3 win over the Lake Elsinore Storm Saturday night. The homestanding Storm yielded first place in the South division as IE has won four of the first five games of the series.
3B Jeremy Arocho started the scoring for the visiting 66ers with a 2-RBI single. 2B Jeremiah Jackson (Los Angeles Angels’ #6 prospect) doubled in three more runs to make it a five spot for the 66ers.
The Storm came back with three runs of their own in the bottom of the second. LF Matthew Acosta tripled in two runs followed by an RBI groundout by C Gilberto Vizcarra.
The Storm were done scoring but the 66ers were not.
Inland Empire got three more runs in the seventh inning and tacked on another in the ninth for a final of 9-3. The win moved IE (6-4) into first place, 1/2 game ahead of Lake Elsinore (6-5).
RHP Justin Courtney (1-0) went three scoreless innings in relief to earn the win. Courtney allowed three hits and no walks while striking out six.
MODESTO – 9
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 7
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The Modesto Nuts stayed hot with their fourth straight win over Rancho Cucamonga to keep pace with Fresno atop the North division. LF Cade Marlowe had a double and a homer (3) and SS Noelvi Marte, the Seattle Mariners’ #7 prospect, had two more hits and is now hitting .367/.426/.977.
VISALIA – 4
FRESNO – 14
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The Grizzlies scored in every inning except the first and broke open a close game and stayed perfect at home with a 14-4 win over the struggling Visalia Rawhide. Zac Veen, the Colorado Rockies’ top prospect, had two hits and drove in three to lead Fresno’s 14-hit attack. SS Ezequiel Tovar (#20 Rockies prospect) had two hits and an RBI and RHP Robinson Hernandez (1-0) went two scoreless innings for the win, giving up no hits and one walk while striking out three.
SAN JOSE – 2
STOCKTON – 0
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CF Luis Matos drove in both Giants runs, with a single and a sac fly, as three Giants pitchers blanked the Stockton Ports 2-0. Matos (#7 San Francisco Giants prospect) is now hitting .381/.391/1.010. Prelander Berroa (3 2/3 IP), Luis Moreno (3 1/3) and Chris Wright (2) scattered five hits and combined to strike out 11 Ports batters while walking four.
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