Torra, Aces Shut Down Beavers, 8-1
May 9, 2010 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Portland Beavers News Release
PORTLAND, Ore. - Matt Torra pitched eight shutout innings and Gerardo Parra was 3-for-5 with three RBIs as the Reno Aces defeated the Portland Beavers 8-1 at PGE Park on Sunday afternoon.
Torra (2-1) retired 16 of the first 18 batters and faced just three batters over the minimum while holding the Beavers (12-18) to four hits and a walk.
Ed Rogers and Pedro Ciriaco hit back-to-back homers during a five-run third and Doug Deeds went 3-for-4 for the Aces (16-15), who won for the sixth time in their last eight games.
Radhames Liz (2-1) took the loss after giving up five runs - all in the third inning - on seven hits across four innings.
Luis Durango and Chris Denorfia each had two hits for the Beavers, who are off to their worst start in the 10 years since returning to the PCL in 2001.
The Aces scored five times off Liz in the top of the third. Deeds walked and Chris Rahl was hit by a pitch with one out. Parra lined an RBI single to right and Ryan Roberts followed with a sacrifice fly to score Rahl. Rogers and Ciriaco then both hit line-drive homers off the brick wall behind the left field fence.
Reno would add three more runs in the seventh, as Portland's Matt Buschmann allowed four consecutive hits to start the frame. The pitcher Torra helped his own cause with a leadoff double and scored on a single by Deeds. Rahl doubled to right before Parra's two-run single capped the Aces' scoring for the day.
The Beavers narrowly avoided being shut out for the first time this season in the ninth as Durango scored from second on a throwing error by the shortstop Ciriaco on what could have been a game-ending double play.
The Beavers and Aces wrap up their four-game series at PGE Park on Monday at 11:05 a.m. (Pacific).
NOTES: Parra, who was optioned from Arizona on Saturday, also stole two bases ... Portland reliever Scott Munter struck out three over two perfect innings ... Rogers has six RBIs through the first three games of the series ... entering the day, Liz had allowed just one run in 10 innings at PGE Park.
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