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Rancho Cucamonga INF Devin Mann was named California League Offensive Player of the Week after posting a .423 average with 2 2B, a 3B and a homer last week. Man had a pair of 4-hit games against Lancaster and racked up 11 hits over three games at The Hangar.
Mann was a fifth-round draft pick out of Louisville in last year’s draft. He split 2018 between the AZL club and lo-A Great Lakes over 65 games. This season, Mann is slashing .275/.347/.490 and has 7 HR with 28 RBI.
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Modesto’s Logan Gilbert had two stellar outings to earn California League Pitcher of the Week honors. Over 12 scoreless IP, Gilbert allowed just six hits and two walks with 16K’s to go 2-0 for the week. Sunday’s seven-inning outing against Rancho Cucamonga was dominant with 11 K’s against only two hits and no walks.
Gilbert was Seattle’s first round draft pick last June out of Stetson. He started the year with West Virginia of the SAL and has mad three starts for the Nuts. His WHIP with Modesto is 0.92 with opponents batting .183 against the tall right-hander.
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The first- and second-place teams in each division faced each other tonight and, believe it or not…….NO RAIN! With time running out on the first half, the Visalia Rawhide looked to strengthen its commanding lead over the surging San Jose Giants while the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes had the Lancaster Jethawks in their rear-view mirror with three-game sets on tap for the weekend.
The Rawhide won late with an 8th-inning run pushed across by an Anfernee Grier sac fly to break a 4-4 deadlock. Reliever West Tunnell came on to close it out in the top of the 9th and allowed the tying run to reach base when San Jose’s Randy Norris led off with a single. A passed ball put Norris at second with no outs but Tunnell struck out the next three batters to seal the 5-4 win.
RHP Kyler Stout (2-0) picked up the win with a scoreless inning in the 8th and Tunnell notched his sixth save while lowering his ERA to 1.69.
Grier homered earlier, his third, and knocked in three runs while 1B L.T. Tolbert had three hits for the Rawhide, who stretched their North division lead to 10 games.
In the South division Rancho Cucamonga traveled to Lancaster to try to protect a three-game lead over the Jethawks. The back-and-forth contest arrived in the bottom of the eighth with the Quakes holding a 6-4 lead, but Lancaster put four runs on the board to take an 8-4 lead to the top of the ninth. Salvador Justo closed it out with a 1-2-3 inning, including two strikeouts, for his sixth save. RHP Austin Moore (3-0) pitched a scoreless eighth inning to pick up the win.
Three different Jethawks had three hits apiece as the home team belted out 14 hits including 2B Taylor Snyder’s third homer of the season.
They’ll square off again Saturday and Sunday.
OTHER SCORES
STOCKTON – 4
INLAND EMPIRE – 1
INLAND EMPIRE – 2
STOCKTON – 3
(Both games seven innings)
LAKE ELSINORE – 8
MODESTO – 2
MacKenzie Gore improves to 4-1, 1.15 ERA with 5IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 2 BB, 6 K
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My first trip to the yard this year was a long one as the Visalia Rawhide needed 14 innings to down the Lancaster Jethawks 3-2 on Friday night. Yoel Yanqui led off the bottom of the 14th and drilled a double into the left-centerfield gap that drove home Cameron Duzenack, the runner who had been placed at second base, with the winning run.
The win maintained the Rawhide’s 10-game lead in the North division as the club improved to 29-13 overall and 18-4 at home.
Rawhide starter Cole Stapler went seven strong inning, striking out 11 Jethawks with no walks while allowing two earned runs on eight hits. Three Visalia relievers combined for seven innings of one-run ball, allowing only one hit, with Mack Lemieux earning the victory to improve his record to 3-0.
Visalia jumped ahead in the first inning with a Jancarlos Cintron solo home run, his third of the season, and added another run in the third for a 2-0 lead. Lancaster battled back against Stapler when CF Casey Golden homered to lead off the fifth inning. Four batters later an RBI double by Todd Czinege tied the game at two apiece.
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It was nothing but zeroes for the next six innings, then both teams scored a single run in the 12th. On we went. Few of the 1,992 fans were left when Yanqui worked his magic four hours and 11 minutes after first pitch but those who remained saw the second walk-off win in two nights for the Rawhide.
Visalia is running away with the South while Lancaster is chasing down Rancho Cucamonga in the North division, remaining three games back of the Quakes, who lost to Modesto.
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The four-game weekday series are complete, with a couple of Thursday doubleheaders required due to rain, and the first-place clubs both added a game to their division leads.
The Visalia Rawhide took three of four from second-place Modesto to open up a 10-game lead in the North division while Rancho Cucamonga won three of four at The Hangar in Lancaster to go up by three games in the South.
There were six Cal League games played on Thursday with doubleheaders in Stockton and San Jose. Lake Elsinore took a pair from the Ports, 6-0 and 2-1, while The Giants swept the Inland Empire 66ers, 7-1 and 3-2.
In Visalia’s 1-0 win on Thursday, three Rawhide pitchers combined to shutout the Modesto Nuts with starter Shumpei Yoshikawa going five innings and allowing just one hit and no walks while striking out eight. Cole Bartlett struck out five over three clean innings. Breckin Williams (2-0) pitched a scoreless top of the ninth and LF Mark Karaviotis sent everyone home with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the inning.
The Rawhide’s Cal League-best record is now 28-13 with a 17-4 home record.
Meanwhile, the Quakes scored six late runs to overcome a 2-1 deficit and defeat Lancaster by a score of 7-2. Rancho starter Josiah Gray struck out nine Jethawks over five innings while Ryan Moseley (2-2) followed him with two scoreless innings to earn the win. A four-run seventh inning chased Lancaster reliever Nick Kennedy and LF Donovan Casey launched his fourth homer of the season, a two-run shot, in the eighth for insurance.
WEEKEND MATCHUPS
LAKE ELSINORE at SAN JOSE
LANCASTER at VISALIA
MODESTO at RANCHO CUCAMONGA
INLAND EMPIRE at STOCKTON
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Lake Elsinore Storm 2b Esteury Ruiz has been named California League Offensive Player of the Week after slashing .389/.450/.722 over six games. For the week Ruiz went 7-for-18 with two homers (4) and seven RBI (17).
On Sunday Ruiz went 2-for-3 against San Jose with a homer and three RBI. The 20-year old out of the Dominican Republic played at lo-A Ft. Wayne last year after a successful 2017 in the AZL.
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San Jose Giants RHP Matt Frisbee has been named Cal League Pitcher of the Week. In his third outing since being promoted from Augusta, Frisbee threw six shutout innings against Modesto on Thursday night. He gave up just one hit with no walks while striking out five in San Jose’s 1-0 win.
Frisbee was drafted in the 15th round in last year’s draft and started the year at Augusta. In four outings (two starts) there he had a WHIP of 1.06 and opponents batted just .196 against him. He walked just six against 23 K’s.
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The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and Lancaster Jethawks squared off Monday night for the first of a four-game set with Rancho holding a slim one-game lead in the South division. The Quakes got a big night at the plate from 1B Nick Yarnall and won by score of 7-3 at The Hangar in Lancaster to stretch their lead to two games.
Yarnall smacked an RBI triple in the second inning and followed with a two-run homer in the fourth to help Rancho Cucamonga to a 4-0 lead. RHP Gerardo Carrillo (2-2) went six strong innings allowing three runs on six hits and a walk with seven strikeouts. Lefty Wes Helsabeck earned his second save with three shutout innings out of the bullpen, allowing just two hits with no walks while striking out five.
2B Carlos Herrera collected three hits for the Jethawks and DH Luis Castro belted his fifth homer of the season in the loss.
The series continues tonight at The Hangar with Leo Crawford (0-2) going for the Quakes and Ryan Rolison (2-0) starting for Lancaster.
THE OTHER FIRST PLACE BATTLE
In the North division, Visalia has a commanding lead and the Rawhide added to it with a 3-1 won over second-place Modesto Monday night. The win stretched Visalia’s lead to nine games and improved its home record to a ridiculous 15-3. Jeff Bain struck out eight over six innings, allowing just a run on six hits to improve to 4-1 on the season.
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All four games have gone final with the race in the Cal League South tightening up while Visalia stretched its already big lead in the North. The Rawhide got a stand-out pitching performance from Josh Green with six strong innings as he protected a four-run first inning lead withoug much drama. Here are the finals from tonight’s action:
VISALIA – 7
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 2
W – Josh Green (4-1), L – Michael Grove (0-1)
LANCASTER – 5
MODESTO – 4
W – Nate Harris (1-2), L – Scott Boches (1-3), S – Salvador Justo (3)
HR – Joe Rizzo (2)
STOCKTON – 2
INLAND EMPIRE – 7
W – Andrew Wantz (3-2), L – Pat Krall (0-2)
SAN JOSE – 4
LAKE ELSINORE – 6
W – Steven Wilson (2-0), L – Carlos Sano (0-1), S – Evan Miller (4)
HR – Esteury Ruiz (3)
The Rawhide now enjoy an eight game lead over Modesto in the North while Rancho Cucamonga has Lancaster just a game behind them with all four series continuing through Sunday. The Modesto Nuts send April Cal League Pitcher of the Month Ljay Newsome to the hill against Lancaster. See other matchups HERE.
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OF Taylor Kohlwey finished off his stay in A ball with Player of the Week honors. Kohlwey slashed .609/.667/.783 for the Lake Elsinore Storm and earned a promotion to the Padres’ AA club in Amarillo.
Kohlwey played for the Storm in 2017 and briefly in 2018 and got off to a .387/.444/.532 start this season.
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