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WEEKEND ACTION

Posted on May 11, 2019 by | Comments Off on WEEKEND ACTION

All four games have gone final with the race in the Cal League South tightening up while Visalia stretched its already big lead in the North. The Rawhide got a stand-out pitching performance from Josh Green with six strong innings as he protected a four-run first inning lead withoug much drama. Here are the finals from tonight’s action:

VISALIA – 7
RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 2
W – Josh Green (4-1), L – Michael Grove (0-1)

LANCASTER – 5
MODESTO – 4
W – Nate Harris (1-2), L – Scott Boches (1-3), S – Salvador Justo (3)
HR – Joe Rizzo (2)

STOCKTON – 2
INLAND EMPIRE – 7
W – Andrew Wantz (3-2), L – Pat Krall (0-2)

SAN JOSE – 4
LAKE ELSINORE – 6
W – Steven Wilson (2-0), L – Carlos Sano (0-1), S – Evan Miller (4)
HR – Esteury Ruiz (3)

The Rawhide now enjoy an eight game lead over Modesto in the North while Rancho Cucamonga has Lancaster just a game behind them with all four series continuing through Sunday. The Modesto Nuts send April Cal League Pitcher of the Month Ljay Newsome to the hill against Lancaster. See other matchups HERE.

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EXTRA-INNING DRAMA

Posted on April 6, 2019 by | Comments Off on EXTRA-INNING DRAMA

The first Friday night slate of games featured two extra-inning contests as Visalia needed 10 innings to get past San Jose and Modesto and Lancaster went 11. Padres #2 prospect MacKenzie Gore earned his first Cal League win for the Lake Elsinore Storm and Rancho Cucamonga knocked off Stockton.

SAN JOSE – 3
VISALIA – 4 (10 innings)
W – Brill (1-0)
L – Rubio (0-1)
Ranae Martinez knocks in the winning run on a sac fly in the 10th

LAKE ELSINORE – 4
INLAND EMPIRE – 0
W – Gore (1-0)
L – Bradish (0-1)
MacKenzie Gore goes five scoreless innings, striking out 8

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 4
STOCKTON – 3
W – Salow (1-0)
L – Sheehan (0-1)
Jeran Kendall singles in the deciding run in the 7th as Quakes earn first win

MODESTO – 11
LANCASTER – 8 (11 innings)
W – Haberer (1-0)
L – Lorenzini (0-1)
Joe Rizzo doubles in a run in the 11th and comes around to score as the Nuts get three runs

 

 

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OPENING NIGHT 2019

Posted on April 5, 2019 by | Comments Off on OPENING NIGHT 2019

The 2019 California League season kicked off tonight with all eight teams in action, including the defending champions, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes. It was a pretty good night for the road teams to spoil some home openers. These matchups will continue through the weekend with four-game series all around. Here are the final scores:

MODESTO – 7
LANCASTER -4
W Newsome (1-0), L Harris (0-1), SV Delaplane (1)

SAN JOSE – 7
VISALIA – 3
W Vizcaino (1-0), L Bain (0-1)

LAKE ELSINORE – 3
INLAND EMPIRE – 2
W Cosgrove (1-0), L Cole (0-1), S Miller (1)

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 1
STOCKTON – 4
W Jeffieries (1-0), L Crawford (0-1), S Cochrane-Gill (1)

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DIAZ’ TWO SAC FLIES LEAD QUAKES OVER RAWHIDE

Posted on May 14, 2017 by | Comments Off on DIAZ’ TWO SAC FLIES LEAD QUAKES OVER RAWHIDE

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A low-scoring affair in Visalia was decided on two runs driven in on sacrifice flies, both by Rancho Cucamonga’s RF Yusniel Diaz, as the Quakes topped the Rawhide 2-1 Saturday night. A packed house of 3,025 at Recreation Park saw just eight hits combined as five Rancho Cucamonga pitchers throttled the Rawhide offense to make the two runs stand up.

Diaz, the Dodgers’ #6 prospect per Baseball America, went 0-for-2 at the plate, but was able to drive in CF DJ Peters who doubled ahead of him in the fourth inning. It was the first hit of the night for the Quakes against Bo Takahashi, who went six strong inning but got no run support. Diaz’ second sac fly came in the sixth.

RHP Dean Kremer started for the Quakes and battled through 2 2/3 innings allowing a hit and three walks, but no runs. RHP Andrew Istler (W, 2-2) came on to get the last out of the third inning and was solid over 3 1/3 innings, allowing one hit, no runs, no walks and striking out five to get the win.

2B Daniel Lockhart went 2-for-4 for the Rawhide and SS Sergio Alcantara blasted his second homerun of the season for Visalia’s only run.

The four-game series continues Sunday with Rancho Cucamonga’s Mitchell White facing Visalia’s Ryan Atkinson.

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QUAKES’ PETERS, STORM’S LUCCHESI HONORED

Posted on May 2, 2017 by | Comments Off on QUAKES’ PETERS, STORM’S LUCCHESI HONORED

Rancho Cucamonga’s DJ Peters has been named Cal League Player of the Week while Lake Elsinore’s Joey Lucchesi took home Pitcher of the Week honors.

Peters slashed .400/.545/.960 and had two doubles, four homers and 11 RBI in 25 ABs. Saturday night against the Storm, Peters went 2-for-5 with a HR, 3 RBI and 2 R.

Lucchesi threw six shutout innings at Visalia last Tuesday, allowing four hits and no walks while striking out eight.

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WEEKEND MATCHUPS

Posted on April 28, 2017 by | Comments Off on WEEKEND MATCHUPS

All eight Cal League teams are 21 games into the season with the Modesto Nuts (13-8) and the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (13-8) atop the divisions. Modesto has a two-game lead in the North over Stockton (11-10) and Visalia (11-10) and is three games up on San Jose (10-11).

The Quakes are four games clear of Lake Elsinore and Lancaster, both 9-12, while Inland Empire sits five games out at 8-13.

Three game sets are on tap for the weekend as follows:

RANCHO CUCAMONGA at LANCASTER
STOCKTON at SAN JOSE
LAKE ELSINORE at INLAND EMPIRE
VISALIA at MODESTO

Starting for Rancho Cucamonga tonight is RHP Mitchell White (1-1, 2.35). White is the Dodgers #10 prospect per MLBPipeline and ranks #19 by Baseball America. Opponents are hitting .248 against the 2016 second-round draft pick and White’s WHIP is 0.98.

In San Jose tonight, the Giants will send RHP Mike Connolly to the mound. Connolly is making his fourth start and checks in with a record of 1-2 with a 1.26 ERA. The 2013 draftee out of Maine has walked four against 13 strikeouts on the season.

 

 

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BUEHLER DEALS, QUAKES OUTLAST 66ERS

Posted on April 22, 2017 by | Comments Off on BUEHLER DEALS, QUAKES OUTLAST 66ERS

The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes pulled out a 5-4 win over the Inland Empire 66ers in a Friday night matchup that saw early offense before a tense finish at LoanMart Field. IE couldn’t do much with Quakes starter Walker Buehler, the Dodgers’ #11 prospect, and fell behind 4-0 after two innings.

Buehler left after three scoreless frames, throwing 47 pitches and allowing just one hit and one walk. The 66ers then mounted their offense and got a run in the fourth on a Matt Thaiss homerun. The Quakes made it 5-1 with a single run in the fifth before Inland Empire plated two in the sixth to pull to within 5-3.

An eventful ninth inning saw the 66ers score another run while coming up short as Rancho’s Andrew Istler notched his second save despite allowing three hits and IE’s fourth run.

The Quakes got to IE starter Jake Jewell for five runs (3ER) on five hits, including Ibandel Isabel’s  fourth homer, a solo shot in the second. But Garrett Nuss came on for the 66ers and threw three scoreless innings in relief to keep his team in the game.

Dean Kremer (1-0) went four innings for the win, allowing two runs on five hits and two walks with three strikeouts.

Thaiss is the Angels’ #2 overall prospect and the homer may have been a good sign as the 2016 first-round pick hasn’t gotten it going at the plate yet (.170/.302/245).

Rancho Cucamonga C Will Smith (#16 BA prospect) threw out two runners trying to steal while going 1-for-4 at the plate.

The series continues Saturday night at 7:05PM.

 

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JETHAWKS GET TO WHITE, DROP QUAKES 11-9

Posted on April 19, 2017 by | Comments Off on JETHAWKS GET TO WHITE, DROP QUAKES 11-9

The Lancaster Jethawks roughed up Rancho Cucamonga’s Mitchell White for six early runs (3 ER) and totaled 12 hits in an 11-9 win at The Hangar Tuesday night. The Jethawks have taken the first two games of the four-game series to tighten up the Cal League South race.

White, last week’s Cal League pitcher of the week, went 1 2/3 innings and allowed four runs and a walk. The first inning was marred only by a fielding error by 1B Ibandel Isabel. But White didn’t make it to the end of a six-run second inning that featured two HBPs, a wild pitch and an error.

Lancaster scored 10 runs over the second, third and fourth innings to put the game out of reach of Rancho’s late comeback attempt. LF Sam Hilliard went 3-for-4 with two RBI for the Jethawks. SS Drew Jackson went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBI.

OTHER SCORES

VISALIA – 2
SAN JOSE – 3

LAKE ELSINORE – 2
INLAND EMPIRE – 3

STOCKTON – 7
MODESTO – 8

 

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BELLINGER STAYS HOT AS QUAKES DOWN MAVS 8-2

Posted on August 14, 2015 by | Comments Off on BELLINGER STAYS HOT AS QUAKES DOWN MAVS 8-2

rancho-cucamonga-quakes-primary-logo-2-primaryA day after dropping both games of a double-header at High Desert, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes rallied from 2-0 down to outpace the Mavericks 8-2 Thursday night. 1B Cody Bellinger was in the middle of a three-run fourth inning and, after the game was all but decided, blasted his 26th homerun in the ninth inning.

Bellinger is tied with Bakersfield’s Tyler O’Neill for the California League homer lead.

With the win Rancho Cucamonga pulled to within two games of High Desert in the South Division 2nd half standings.

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NEWCOMB, DIXON EARN WEEKLY HONORS

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As the Dodgers and Angels played each other to end the week, their affiliates had players recognized as Pitcher/Offensive Player of the Week in the California League.

LHP Sean Newcomb of Inland Empire was named Cal League Pitcher of the Week after throwing six shutout innings at Lake Elsinore, allowing three hits while striking out six and walking just one. It was the last of 13 starts in the Cal League for Newcomb, who was promoted to AA Arkansas.

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Rancho Cucamonga’s Brandon Dixon batted .433/.452/1.100 to earn Cal League Offensive Player of the Week. Dixon belted six home runs and drove in 11 runs.

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