Giants Walk-Off with 3-2 Victory over Nuts
May 21, 2015 - California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release
SAN JOSE, CA - A passed ball with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning scored San Jose's Dylan Davis from third base to lift the Giants to a 3-2 victory over the Modesto Nuts on Wednesday evening at Municipal Stadium. The Nuts tied the contest with a run in the top of the ninth before San Jose answered in the bottom of the inning for the walk-off win. The Giants (14-26) have now won the first two games of the series.
Ty Ross (2-for-4, 2 2B) had a pair of doubles while Ryan Lollis (2-for-4, RBI) singled twice and drove home a run to lead San Jose offensively.
D.J. Snelten took a shutout into the seventh inning for the Giants. The San Jose starter pitched a career-high 6 1/3 innings with just one run and five hits allowed. Snelten struck out four and walked none during his 76-pitch performance.
The Giants carried a 2-1 lead into the top of the ninth before Modesto rallied against San Jose closer Dan Slania. Zach Osborne led off the frame with a first-pitch single into left center. After Ryan McMahon flied out, Slaina uncorked a wild pitch advancing Osborne to second. Correlle Prime then struck out, but reached first safely when the the ball skipped away from Ross. Slania's second wild pitch of the inning also moved Osborne to third. Jordan Patterson followed with a line out to left for the second out, but Rosell Herrera then reached on an infield single to deep shortstop plating Osborne with the tying run. Slania did recover inducing the next hitter, Wilfredo Rodriguez, to groundout stranding the potential go-ahead run at third.
With the score tied, Nuts reliever Trent Daniel quickly retired the first two batters of the bottom of the ninth before Davis blooped a single into shallow right. Ross followed with a double into the left center field gap to advance Davis to third. John Polonius was then intentionally walked to load the bases bringing Brandon Bednar to the plate. The 0-1 pitch to Bednar then glanced off the mitt of the catcher Rodriguez and as the ball rolled towards the backstop, Davis sprinted home and easily scored the winning run.
Slania (1-2) was credited with the victory out of the Giants bullpen despite giving up the lead in the top of the ninth. Slania allowed one run on two hits in his one inning of work.
Daniel (1-2) suffered the loss for the Nuts.
San Jose built a 2-0 lead with single runs in the fourth and sixth innings. After Modesto starter Harrison Musgrave had retired the first 10 San Jose hitters of the contest, Lollis lined a one-out single into left in the bottom of the fourth. A wild pitch moved Lollis to second before Austin Slater smacked a two-out RBI double off the wall in center.
In the bottom of the sixth, Bednar doubled into the left field corner to start the frame, advanced to third on Jesus Galindo's sacrifice bunt and scored the second Giants run of the night when Lollis singled sharply into center.
Meanwhile, Snelten allowed just three hits over six scoreless innings to begin his start. He pitched around a leadoff bunt single in the first, a leadoff double in the second and a two-out single in the top of the fourth. Snelten had retired 15 out of 16 Nuts hitters until Prime singled with one out in the top of the seventh. Patterson then delivered a double into deep right center plating Prime to give Modesto their first run of the series. The hit cut the San Jose lead in half and ended Snelten's night. Ian Gardeck was summoned from the bullpen and he quickly got out of the inning retiring Herrera on a fly out to center and Rodriguez on a soft line out to first.
Gardeck (1 2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO) maintained the one-run Giants lead with a perfect top of the eighth before the Nuts rallied in the ninth.
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