FRESNO – 8
VISALIA – 7
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The Grizzlies got a four-hit game from DH Drew Romo and three hits and three RBIs from LF Zac Veen. Romo’s line is now .313/.349/.485. The Grizzlies won four of the six games in this series and joined the 30-win club at 30-18. Only San Jose has more wins (33) and Fresno sits three games back in the North division. Visalia is 13-35, 11 1/2 games out in the South.
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FRESNO – 7
VISALIA – 5
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The Grizzlies (29-18) kept pace in the North division, staying four games back of San Jose with the win. SS Ezequiel Tovar stayed hot with a 2-for-4 night including his seventh homer of the season. It was Tovar’s fourth straight multi-hit game. Visalia outhit Fresno 14-8 but came up short. Fresno has won three of the five games so far and go for a series win today while Visalia is looking for a split.
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3B A.J. Vukovich broke a 9th-inning tie with an RBI double as the Visalia Rawhide beat the Fresno Grizzlies 6-5 on Friday night. Visalia walked off with a win for the second time in this series which is now even at two games apiece.
Visalia’s offense pounded out 12 hits, led by 1B Ramses Malave who went 3-for-4 with two homers (his 3rd and 4th of the season) and 4 RBIs. Vukovich went 2-for-5 with 2 RBIs and 2B Ronny Simon went 3-for-5 from the leadoff spot with 2 runs scored.
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Stockton 3B T.J. Schofield-Sam brought home the winning run with a sac fly in the top of the 10th at San Manuel Stadium as the Ports beat the Inland Empire 66ers 5-4 Thursday night. Sam had a pair of RBIs on the night and CF Junior Perez had two hits and an RBI to lead the offense.
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In a battle of first-place clubs, the San Jose Giants belted out 14 hits and drew eight walks to drop the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 9-5 on Tuesday night. LF Alex Canario blasted two home runs (5, 6) and SS Marco Luciano hit his 9th bomb of the year.
Giants starter Ryan Murphy went 3 1/3 IP allowing 4 runs (3ER) on 5 hits and 2 walks with 6 strikeouts. The Giants bullpen stopped the back-and-forth scoring by holding the Quakes to just one run the rest of the way. Righty Austin Reich (W, 3-0) went 2 2/3 scoreless innings allowing just one hit and no walks with four strikeouts. RHP Clay Helvey finished off the game, going 2 IP with no runs, hits or walks and five strikeouts for his sixth save of the season.
The win put the Giants (29-14) up by three games in the North division while the Quakes’ lead in the South shrunk to 2 1/2 games.
VISALIA WALKS OFF WITH FOUR IN THE 9TH INNING
The Visalia Rawhide beat the Fresno Grizzlies for the first time in 13 tries this season with a four-run bottom of the 9th inning to walk-off with a win. Fresno took a 9-6 advantage into the home half of the 9th but Visalia got what it needed as CF Glenallen Hill Jr. capped off the rally with an RBI single to win it, 10-9.
Each team scored in five different half innings. 1B Neyfy Castillo led Visalia’s 14-hit attack, going 3-for-5 with a triple. Reliever Bobby Ay pitched the final two innings, allowing one run on one hit and three walks with a strikeout and picked up the win when the offense came through.
LAKE ELSINORE – 11
MODESTO – 5
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STOCKTON – 6
INLAND EMPIRE – 5
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TRANSACTIONS
VISALIA RAWHIDE – OF Jorge Barrosa, SS Roman Ruiz, LHP Denson Hull and RHP Brandon Pfaadt assigned to High-A Hillsboro
3B Alexander Hernandez assigned to Visalia from High-A Hillsboro. RHP Alex Valdez assigned to Visalia from ACL D-Backs
LAKE ELSINORE STORM– LHP Ramon Perez assigned to High-A Fort Wayne
INLAND EMPIRE 66ERS – 1B Julio De La Cruz assigned to Inland Empire from ACL Angels
3B Jose Bonilla assigned to ACL Angels
MODESTO NUTS – RHP Leon Hunter and LHP Max Roberts assigned to Modesto Nuts from Tacoma Rainiers.
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The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes maintained their 3-game lead in the South division with a breakout offensive game on Tuesday night, racking up 22 hits in a 15-4 win at Lake Elsinore. 2B/SS Jorbit Vivas led the hit parade with a 6-for-6 night, including a grand slam. Vivas’ fifth homer of the season was part of a 10-run 5th inning for Rancho Cucamonga (17-13).
Quakes starter Carlos Duran went four strong innings, allowing a run on two hits and a walk with seven strikeouts and left the game leading 2-1 when the visitors followed with a 10-spot in the top of the fifth inning to blow the game open.
DH Eddys Leonard went 3-for-6 with his fourth homer of the year and 2 RBI and 2 runs scored.
Lake Elsinore starter Nick Thwaits (L, 0-4) allowed two runs over the first four innings but was tagged for 6 ER after being relieved without recording an out in the fifth. The lone bright spot for the Storm bullpen was RHP Jose Geraldo who went two scoreless innings allowing three hits and no walks while striking out five. C Brandon Valenzuela went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Matthew Acosta went 2-for-4 with his second home run of the season for the Storm.
INLAND EMPIRE – 8
VISALIA – 1
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SAN JOSE – 7
STOCKTON – 5
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FRESNO – 9
MODESTO – 1
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Inland Empire’s Jeremiah Jackson has been named Low-A West Player of the week and Rancho Cucamonga’s Braydon Fisher has been named Pitcher of the week.
JEREMIAH JACKSON – The Los Angeles Angels’ #5 prospect went 7-for-20 in six games against Rancho Cucamonga and batted .350/.458/.700. On June 4th, Jackson went 2-for-4 with a double and two walks while driving in four runs. Over the week, Jackson had three multi-hit games and drove in eight runs.
BRAYDON FISHER – RHP Fisher pitched twice out of the bullpen last week, logging 7 1/3 IP, allowing 1 H and 3 BB while striking out 12. On June 4th against IE, Fisher struck out eight over 4 IP. BAA over the two appearances was .043 and Fisher’s WHIP was 0.52.
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The Inland Empire 66ers scored in bunches on Friday night with a 14-hit attack that yielded 14 runs to even their series with the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. OF D’ShawnKnowles and 3B Jose Bonilla led the hit parade with three hits apiece and SS Jeremiah Jackson added two hits and drove in four runs as the 66ers cruised to a 14-5 victory at Rancho Cucamonga.
The teams have split the first four games of the series and Inland Empire (13-14) is back to within just one game of the first-place Quakes (14-13) in the South division.
Each team scored three runs in the third inning but IE kept coming back for more with 11 runs over the next four innings. Rancho posted single runs in the seventh and eighth innings to finish the scoring.
Jackson, the Angels’ #5 prospect, has been swinging a hot bat in the series, going 6-for-13 with two doubles, a triple and a homer. He’s walked three times against three strikeouts with six runs scored.
#7 prospect Jack Kochanowicz got the start for the 66ers and went 4 1/3 innings, allowing 3 runs (2 ER) on 3 H and 1 BB with 3 Ks. LHP Adam Seminaris ( #30 prospect) came on in the fifth and went 2 1/3 innings, allowing 1 R on 3 H and no BB with 4 Ks to earn the win (1-1).
Rancho Cucamonga CF Edwin Mateo had two hits including an RBI double and Sam McWilliams had a two-RBI double.
MODESTO – 6
SAN JOSE – 3
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VISALIA – 1
FRESNO – 2
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LAKE ELSINORE – 5
STOCKTON – 4
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The Modesto Nuts stayed hot Thursday night with a 10-7 win over Inland Empire to go to a league best 12-3. The eighth straight win along with Fresno’s loss to San Jose put the Nuts two games up in the North division.
Modesto’s 11-hit attack got going early with a solo homerun from SS Noelvi Marte (Mariners #7) in the top of the first inning. Inland Empire pushed across two runs in the bottom of the first, highlighted by Kyren Paris‘ RBI triple.
The top of Modesto’s order was back at it in the third with a two-RBI double by Marte to make it a 3-2 game. Paris (Angels #6) doubled in a run in the bottom of the third and scored the go-ahead run later in the inning. But that would be the last lead the 66ers would hold as Modesto scored twice in the fourth, twice in the fifth and three times in the seventh.
Leadoff hitter Victor Labrada went 2-for-5 with three RBI and a pair of doubles for Modesto. His counterpart with IE, CF Elijah Greene, went 3-for-4 from the leadoff spot with three runs scored.
STOCKTON – 4
VISALIA – 3
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SAN JOSE – 3
FRESNO – 2
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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 6
LAKE ELSINORE – 7
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The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes got a homer and four RBI from 2B Sam McWilliams and 16 Ks from five pitchers to beat the Modesto Nuts 6-2 on Monday night. After putting the Quakes up with a three-run homer in the third, McWilliams gave Rancho some room with an RBI single in the 7th for a 4-2 lead. The home team tacked on a pair of runs in the eighth for the final margin of 6-2.
LHP Jacob Canteleberry (1-0) was strong over 2 1/3 innings of relief to earn the win. Cantleberry didn’t allow a hit and walked one while striking out five.
Modesto got a good start out of RHP Josias De Los Santos (0-1) who went five innings and allowed two earned runs on two hits and three walks with four strikeouts. The Nuts had a rough night on defense with four errors.
INLAND EMPIRE – 12
LAKE ELSINORE – 7
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FRESNO – 9
VISALIA – 2
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SAN JOSE – 5
STOCKTON – 1
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