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CABRERA DAZZLES AS RAWHIDE BEAT QUAKES

Jose Cabrera

RHP Jose Cabrera threw five scoreless innings and Brett Johnson belted his second home run of the season as the Visalia Rawhide beat the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 8-3 on Friday night at Valley Strong Ballpark. Four Rawhide batters had multi-hit games and the pitching staff kept the Quakes off the scoreboard until the ninth inning.

Visalia got single runs in the second and third innings, both on wild pitches.  Johnson launched his solo shot in the seventh inning to make it 3-0 and the Rawhide pushed across another run with a Jose Fernandez RBI single.

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3-RUN EIGHTH INNING PUSHES RAWHIDE PAST 66ERS

The Visalia Rawhide came back from a run down in the bottom of the eighth with three runs for a 4-2 win over Inland Empire on Saturday night at Valley Strong Ballpark. Two walks, two singles and a GIDP brought in the deciding runs as the Rawhide (10-16) got strong outings from four pitchers and made the most of just five base hits.

Starter Ricardo Yan went 5 2/3 innings and allowed two runs on three hits with no walks and eight strikeouts. Those three hits were surrendered to the first three batters of the game, who went single-double-double to put the 66ers up 2-0. Yan then retired the next 17 batters in a row, but left the game trailing and got a no-decision.

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