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GIANTS TAKE 5 OF 6 FROM PORTS

Stockton @ San Jose Gm 6

The San Jose Giants pulled away from the Stockton Ports with a seven-run seventh inning and won the series finale 12-3 at Excite Ballpark on Sunday. P.J. Hilson and Turner Hill each had four hits to lead the Giants’ 17-hit attack.

San Jose (11-13) won five of the six games in the series.

The Giants scored in each of the first four innings to build a 4-0 lead. The Ports cut it to 4-2 going to the bottom of the fifth but San Jose came back with eight straight runs to make it 12-2 going to the late innings.

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GIANT CLINCH SERIES WIN

Stockton @ San Jose Gm 5

Deja vu at Excite Ballpark on Saturday night as the San Jose Giants won a 3-2 game over the Stockton Ports with a tie-breaking single in the middle innings and five shutout innings by the bullpen. Just like Friday night, the tight contest featured shutdown innings from both bullpens with San Jose coming out on top.

Alexander Suarez‘ three-hit night featured the game-winner, a single to left in the fifth inning that gave the Giants a 3-2 lead. After starter Mauricio Estrella held the Ports to two runs on three hits and three walks with four strikeouts over the first four innings, Jorge Garcia (W, 1-0) came on for three hitless innings, allowing two walks and striking out two. Luis Moreno (S, 2) finished it off with two scoreless innings, giving up one hit and no walks with two strikeouts.

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GIANTS EDGE PORTS ON ROSARIO’S RBI KNOCK

Stockton @ San Jose Gm 4

Dilan Rosario broke a 2-2 tie with an RBI single in the 4th inning that proved to be the game-winner as San Jose beat Stockton 3-2 on Friday night at Excite Ballpark. Andrew Kachel went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer to lead the Giants offense and the bullpen held Stockton scoreless over the last five innings.

San Jose took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on Kachel’s 5th home run of the season. The Ports tied it up in the fourth with a two-RBI single from Elvis Rijo. Rosario went 3-for-4 on the night, including his game-deciding hit in the bottom of the fourth.

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PORTS COME TO LIFE LATE TO BEAT SAN JOSE IN 10

Stockton @ San Jose Gm 3

The Stockton Ports scored two in the eighth, two in the ninth to force extras, then pushed across a run in the 10th for a 5-4 victory over San Jose at Excite Ballpark Thursday night. The Giants took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first and were cruising with a 4-0 lead before Stockton mounted it’s late comeback.

After finally denting the scoreboard with two eighth-inning runs, the Ports tied it up on a Brayan Buelvas double, followed by a sac fly in the ninth. The deciding run came in on a double-play grounder in the 10th.

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GIANTS POWER PAST PORTS FOR GM 2 WIN

Stockton @ San Jose Gm 2

The San Jose Giants got a pair of key home runs and starter Manuel Mercedes pitched five shutout innings in a 6-3 win over Stockton on Saturday night at Excite Ballpark. The Giants have won the first two games of the six-game series.

Andrew Kachel hit a two-run homer in the first inning to give the Giants a lead they would never relinquish. Mercedes allowed three hits and two strikeouts over his five innings and left the game with the 2-0 lead. San Jose added a run in the bottom of the fifth when Kachel doubled to make it 3-0.

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TUESDAY SCORES

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 8
LAKE ELSINORE 9
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STOCKTON – 2
SAN JOSE – 5
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MODESTO – 2
FRESNO – 7
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INLAND EMPIRE – 12
VISALIA – 1
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GRIZZLIES RIDE 6-RUN INNING TO SERIES WIN

Fresno @ Lake Elsinore GM 3

The Fresno Grizzlies batted around for six runs in the fifth inning and Gabriel Barbosa threw five strong innings in an 8-4 win over Lake Elsinore on Sunday. The Grizzlies (15-3) took two of three in the short series and hold an eight-game lead in the North division.

The teams traded single runs before the six-run outburst in the fifth. Skyler Messinger doubled in two runs to break the 1-1 tie and Jake Snider knocked a bases-loaded triple to give Fresno some breathing room.

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STORM EVEN SERIES WITH 10TH INNING WALK-OFF

FRESNO @ LAKE ELSINORE GM 2

Nick Vogt drove in the winning run with a 10th-inning single as Lake Elsinore evened up its three-game series with Fresno with a 3-2 win at The Diamond on Saturday. The first-place Grizzlies got a run in the top of the ninth to force extras but the Storm got the walk-off win for its fifth victory in its last seven games.

Starter Miguel Mendez went four shutout innings for Lake Elsinore allowing two hits and two walks with four strikeouts. The bullpen got it to the ninth with a 2-1 Storm lead before Fresno struck for the tying run on a Dyan Jorge RBI single.

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FRIDAY SCORES

MODESTO – 4
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 14
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VISALIA – 4
SAN JOSE – 10
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INLAND EMPIRE – 9
STOCKTON – 8
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FRESNO – 9
LAKE ELSINORE – 6
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66ERS TAKE SERIES WITH 12-6 WIN OVER QUAKES

The Inland Empire 66ers used a 7-run inning to break open a close game and went on to win 12-6 over the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in the finale of the six-game series at San Manuel Stadium. The 66ers earned the series win, four games to two, and stretched their second-half lead in the South division to two games over the Quakes, Visalia and Lake Elsinore.

Trailing 3-2 going to the bottom of the fifth, IE rallied for seven runs, taking the lead back when Johan Macias hit into a fielder’s choice that brought in two runs. The offense kept rolling and the 66ers added on, highlighted by a two-run single by Mike Peabody. The Quakes helped out by issuing three walks, two wild pitches and a HBP.

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