Denzel Clarke went 2-for-5 and hit a two-run home run in the eighth inning to give the Stockton Ports the lead for good in a 7-6 victory over the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes on Wednesday night at LoanMart Field. Clarke’s fifth homer of the season broke a 5-5 tie.
Junior Perez belted his third home run of the season in the fifth inning to draw Stockton even. Rancho Cucamonga struck for a run in the bottom of the ninth but left the tying run on base.
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Tagged Chen Zhong -Ao Zhuang, CJ Rodriguez, Denzel Clarke, Diego Cartaya, Jack Owen, Junior Perez, Max Muncy
OF Denzel Clarke and RHP Mitch Myers, both of the Stockton Ports, earned Player and Pitcher of the Week honors for April 11-17.
DENZEL CLARKE – After going hitless in the first two games against Modesto, Clarke went 10-for-19 with three home runs the rest of the series. The Oakland A’s’ #16 prospect is slashing .333/.350/.615 for the young season and is tied for second in the Cal League with 13 hits and 3 homers.
MITCH MYERS – On Wednesday night, Myers threw six scoreless innings against Modesto, allowing two hits and two walks with four strikeouts. The right-hander out of Pittsburgh left with a 3-0 lead having thrown 74 pitches, 48 for strikes.
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Tagged Denzel Clarke, Mitch Myers, Pitcher of the Week, Player of the Week, Stockton Ports
Stockton’s bats broke out for the second night in a row, led by Denzel Clarke‘s two home runs, in a 14-10 win over Modesto at Banner Island Ballpark Friday night. Clarke, the Oakland A’s #17 prospect, led off the bottom of the first with a solo shot and added a three-run bomb in the seventh. Stockton got three more long balls in outlasting the Nuts to even the series at two games apiece.
A three-run first inning and a six-run fourth put Stockton up 9-2 with rehabbing big-leaguer James Kaprielian in control but the Nuts got to Stockton’s bullpen and made it a slugfest.
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Tagged CJ Rodriguez, Denzel Clarke, James Kaprielian, Kevin Richards, Max Muncy, Modesto Nuts, Robert Perez, Stockton Ports
The Stockton Ports got in the win column on Thursday night when the offense erased deficits of 5-0 and 6-1 and three relievers locked down the Modesto Nuts for an 11-6 win at Banner Island Ballpark. Denzel Clarke had four hits and drove in three runs, including his first home run of the season.
It was the first win of 2022 for Stockton (1-5) and kept them three games back of Fresno (4-2) in the North division. Modesto (3-3) is one game out.
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Tagged Aaron Cohn, Danny Bautista, Denzel Clarke, Jack Owen, Luke Anderson, Max Muncy, Yehizon Sanchez
