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RAWHIDE, QUAKES EXTEND THEIR LEADS

Posted on May 17, 2019 by | Comments Off on RAWHIDE, QUAKES EXTEND THEIR LEADS

The four-game weekday series are complete, with a couple of Thursday doubleheaders required due to rain, and the first-place clubs both added a game to their division leads.

The Visalia Rawhide took three of four from second-place Modesto to open up a 10-game lead in the North division while Rancho Cucamonga won three of four at The Hangar in Lancaster to go up by three games in the South.

There were six Cal League games played on Thursday with doubleheaders in Stockton and San Jose. Lake Elsinore took a pair from the Ports, 6-0 and 2-1, while The Giants swept the Inland Empire 66ers, 7-1 and 3-2.

In Visalia’s 1-0 win on Thursday, three Rawhide pitchers combined to shutout the Modesto Nuts with starter Shumpei Yoshikawa going five innings and allowing just one hit and no walks while striking out eight. Cole Bartlett struck out five over three clean innings. Breckin Williams (2-0) pitched a scoreless top of the ninth and LF Mark Karaviotis sent everyone home with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the inning.

The Rawhide’s Cal League-best record is now 28-13 with a 17-4 home record.

Meanwhile, the Quakes scored six late runs to overcome a 2-1 deficit and defeat Lancaster by a score of 7-2. Rancho starter Josiah Gray struck out nine Jethawks over five innings while Ryan Moseley (2-2) followed him with two scoreless innings to earn the win. A four-run seventh inning chased Lancaster reliever Nick Kennedy and LF Donovan Casey launched his fourth homer of the season, a two-run shot, in the eighth for insurance.

WEEKEND MATCHUPS

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

 

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ROUND 1 GOES TO QUAKES

Posted on May 14, 2019 by | Comments Off on ROUND 1 GOES TO QUAKES

The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes and Lancaster Jethawks squared off Monday night for the first of a four-game set with Rancho holding a slim one-game lead in the South division. The Quakes got a big night at the plate from 1B Nick Yarnall and won by score of 7-3 at The Hangar in Lancaster to stretch their lead to two games.

Yarnall smacked an RBI triple in the second inning and followed with a two-run homer in the fourth to help Rancho Cucamonga to a 4-0 lead. RHP  Gerardo Carrillo (2-2) went six strong innings allowing three runs on six hits and a walk with seven strikeouts. Lefty Wes Helsabeck earned his second save with three shutout innings out of the bullpen, allowing just two hits with no walks while striking out five.

2B Carlos Herrera collected three hits for the Jethawks and DH Luis Castro belted his fifth homer of the season in the loss.

The series continues tonight at The Hangar with Leo Crawford (0-2) going for the Quakes and Ryan Rolison (2-0) starting for Lancaster.

THE OTHER FIRST PLACE BATTLE

In the North division, Visalia has a commanding lead and the Rawhide added to it with a 3-1 won over second-place Modesto Monday night. The win stretched Visalia’s lead to nine games and improved its home record to a ridiculous 15-3. Jeff Bain struck out eight over six innings, allowing just a run on six hits to improve to 4-1 on the season.

 

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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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TRANSACTIONS OF NOTE

Posted on May 10, 2017 by | Comments Off on TRANSACTIONS OF NOTE

A couple of big-leaguers are included in the Cal League transactions this week:

  • OF Denard Span has been sent to San Jose on a rehab assignment and went 0-for-2 last night against Rancho Cucamonga. Span has played in 14 games with the San Francisco Giants and has had two different stints of missing time big-league due to injury.
  • RHP Rubby De La Rosa had three one-inning outings with the Visalia Rawhide and has now been sent to the Arizona Diamondbacks’ extended spring training. In his three outings with Visalia, De La Rosa allowed one hit and no runs with no walks and two strikeouts over 3IP.

TONIGHT’S GAMES

STOCKTON at LAKE ELSINORE

MODESTO at LANCASTER

RANCHO CUCAMONGA at SAN JOSE

VISALIA at INLAND EMPIRE

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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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ORTIZ SHINES FOR HIGH DESERT WITH 6IP, 1H

Posted on May 15, 2016 by | Comments Off on ORTIZ SHINES FOR HIGH DESERT WITH 6IP, 1H
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The High Desert Mavericks rode the arm of Luis Ortiz and a 14-hit attack to pound out a 9-1 victory over the Visalia Rawhide on Saturday night. The home Rawhide hurt their own cause with a season-high six errors as well.

The visiting Mavericks broke open a 1-1 contest with a string of deuces in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, then put up two more runs in the ninth.

Ortiz, the Rangers’ #4 prospect in Baseball America’s rankings, allowed just one hit over six innings, a solo homer to Colin Bray in the third inning. The right-hander threw 59 pitches with 41 of them strikes while striking out five against 0 walks.

The Mavericks (24-12) have taken the first two games of the four-game set in Visalia and remained a game back of first-place Rancho Cucamonga (25-11) in the South division. The Rawhide (23-12) saw their lead in the North trimmed to two games as the San Jose Giants knocked off Modesto.

SCOREBOARD

MODESTO – 7
SAN JOSE – 11

LAKE ELSINORE – 1
LANCASTER 5

HIGH DESERT – 9
VISALIA – 1

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – 5
INLAND EMPIRE – 3

STOCKTON – 6
BAKERSFIELD – 9

 

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MODESTO BLANKS VISALIA, MOVES INTO FIRST-PLACE TIE

Posted on July 25, 2015 by | Comments Off on MODESTO BLANKS VISALIA, MOVES INTO FIRST-PLACE TIE

ModestoA stellar pitching duel in Visalia saw Modesto’s Anthony Senzatela throw eight shutout innings at the Rawhide as the Nuts won a 4-3 decision, forging a tie atop the North Division. Senzatela (7-5), the Rockies’ #11 prospect, struck out seven and allowed five hits without a walk to earn the victory, which gave the Nuts and Rawhide identical 18-7 records in the second-half standings.

Visalia’s Anthony Banda (L, 6-8) was nearly as good, going 6 1/3 and allowing just one run on six hits with a walk and nine strikeouts. But he gave up a seventh-inning run by allowing a pair of one-0ut singles to start a rally that reliever Bud Jeter couldn’t quell.

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JETHAWKS BECOME PORTS IN MLB DEADLINE DEAL

Posted on July 24, 2015 by | Comments Off on JETHAWKS BECOME PORTS IN MLB DEADLINE DEAL

The MLB non-waiver trade deadline is fast approaching and the first of what should be many deals happened yesterday with the Houston Astros and Oakland A’s swapping players. Houston acquired LHP Scott Kazmir for “a pair of minor-leaguers” who were both playing with the Lancaster Jethawks,

The A’s received C Jacob Nottingham and P Daniel Mengden, both of whom were assigned to the Stockton Ports. Nottingham had recently been promoted to Lancaster from Quad Cities where he batted .326/.387/.543 with 10 homers in 59 games. In 17 games at Lancaster, it was more of the same: .324/.368/.606 with 4 homers.

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