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PIMENTEL K’S 14 IN RAWHIDE WIN

Stockton @ Visalia Gm 3

Yoscar Pimentel shut out the Stockton Ports over six innings on five hits, striking out 14 batters without a walk as the Visalia Rawhide rolled to a 7-0 win on Thursday night at Valley Strong Ballpark. A five-run fourth inning was more than enough for Visalia to win for the second time in three games in the series with the Ports.

Pimentel (W, 3-2) gave up a leadoff double to Dereck Salmon to start the game but got out of the inning with his first two strikeouts. After striking out the side in the second and third innings, he had already set a new season-high with eight.

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SUNDSTROM SLAM LIFTS MODESTO OVER VISALIA

Visalia @ Modesto Gm 4

Jared Sundstrom capped off a six-run rally with a grand slam home run that proved to be the difference in Modesto’s 7-3 win over Visalia on Friday night at John Thurman Field. The Nuts came back from 3-1 down to win for the third time in four games vs. the Rawhide.

Michael Morales (W, 5-4) gave up one earned run over five innings but left the game trailing. The right-hander allowed two hits and three walks while striking out seven. Two unearned runs had the Nuts trailing 3-1 going to the bottom of the fifth when the six-run rally made a winner of Morales.

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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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