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NUTS WIN THIRD STRAIGHT, 4-1 OVER VISALIA SAT. NIGHT

Posted on June 10, 2019 by | Comments Off on NUTS WIN THIRD STRAIGHT, 4-1 OVER VISALIA SAT. NIGHT

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The Modesto Nuts got five shutout innings from starter Ian McKinney and newly acquired OF Jake Scheiner blasted his first Cal League homer as the Nuts topped the Visalia Rawhide 4-1 in Visalia Saturday night.

McKinney (4-3) allowed six hits and three walks but always managed to dodge trouble as he earned the win. With the Nuts leading 1-0 in the fifth inning, Scheiner fired a strike to home plate on a single to left field to cut down the tying run and end the inning.

Visalia starter Jeff Bain (4-4) took the loss despite striking out 13 batters over seven innings. Bain allowed six hits and two walks along with two earned runs.

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The Rawhide, who have already clinched the North division first-half title, outhit the Nuts 10-8, including four hits from 1B L.T. Tolbert, who raised his batting average to .380.

C Cal Raleigh went 1-for-3 for Modesto, driving in two runs, while SS Johnny Adams knocked in the final run in the ninth inning to make it 4-1.

The five-game series continues Sunday at 6PM.

 

 

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FRIDAY NIGHT: MODESTO OUTLASTS VISALIA

Posted on June 7, 2019 by | Comments Off on FRIDAY NIGHT: MODESTO OUTLASTS VISALIA

The Visalia Rawhide suffered a rare home loss on Friday night when the Modesto Nuts pushed across an eighth-inning run to eke out a hard-fought 5-4 victory in Cal League North division action. Nuts starter Ljay Newsome bounced back from two rough outings to throw six strong innings while SS Johnny Adams belted a homer and a triple to pace the offense.

Modesto built a 4-0 lead going to the bottom of the fifth inning, but the first-half champion Rawhide pecked away with single runs in the fifth and sixth before tying it up in the seventh.

The Nuts came up in the top of the eighth and took the lead back with a homer off the bat of CF Connor Kopach, his third of the season. It was a major breakthrough against Rawhide reliever Mack Lemieux, who had held opponents to a .156 batting average coming into his 12th relief appearance. Kopach touched him up for the deciding run as Lemieux (4-1) took the loss.

Newsome went six innings and allowed seven hits and a walk with five strikeouts and two earned runs. Reliever Kyle Wilcox (2-1) got the win despite a shaky inning where he surrendered the lead, in part because of two wild pitches.

Five of Visalia’s 11 hits came from the top two spots in the batting order where SS Jancarlos Cintron went 3-for-5 and 1B L.T. Tolbert was 2-for-5. Tolbert has batted .410 over his last 10 games (16-for-49) and clocks in at .358/.431/.453 on the year.

The five-game series continues tomorrow night

OTHER SCORES

LANCASTER – 0
LAKE ELSINORE – 5

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 6
INLAND EMPIRE – 5

SAN JOSE – 3
STOCKTON – 8

 

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FRIDAY NIGHT: RAWHIDE EXTEND LEAD, QUAKES DROP A GAME

Posted on May 24, 2019 by | Comments Off on FRIDAY NIGHT: RAWHIDE EXTEND LEAD, QUAKES DROP A GAME

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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