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10th Inning Squeeze Play Lifts Nuts Past Giants

June 27, 2010 - California League (CalL1)
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The Modesto Nuts scored the go-ahead run in the top of the 10th inning on a squeeze play en route to a 5-4 victory over the San Jose Giants on Saturday evening at Municipal Stadium. Modesto's Jimmy Cesario tripled with one out before coming home on Beau Seabury's sacrifice bunt as the Nuts claimed their third consecutive game to begin the series. With the loss, San Jose's overall record drops to 45-28.

Drew Biery (2-for-3, HR, RBI) hit a game-tying solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning while Charlie Culberson (3-for-4) added three hits for the Giants. Brandon Belt (1-for-5, HR, RBI) also connected for his team-leading 10th home run of the year.

Edwin Quirarte (1-4) suffered the loss out of the San Jose bullpen after surrendering the go-ahead run. Quirarte worked two innings of relief with one run and one hit allowed.

The Giants trailed by a 4-3 margin until Biery stepped to the plate and hammered the first pitch of the bottom of the seventh inning over the fence in left center for a home run. The home run was Biery's seventh of the season.

With the game still tied, the Giants had an opportunity to win in the bottom of the ninth as Culberson led off with a single against reliever Isaiah Froneberger. Jose Flores followed with a sacrifice bunt advancing Culberson to second before Biery was intentionally walked. Froneberger retired the next hitter, Joel Weeks, on a pop out to shallow center field while Kurt Yacko then entered the contest and set down James Simmons on fly ball to the warning track in left center forcing extra innings.

After a perfect top of the ninth, Quirarte retired Ben Paulsen on a groundout to second base beginning the 10th. Cesario was up next and he grounded a triple down the right field line and into the corner giving Modesto their first baserunner since the fifth inning. Seabury followed with a perfectly executed bunt as Cesario broke for the plate on the suicide squeeze play and scored the go-ahead run. Seabury was tagged out by the first baseman Biery on the play.

In the bottom of the 10th, Juan Perez was hit by a pitch to begin the inning. However, Yacko retired the next two hitters, Ehire Adrianza and Francisco Peguero, on fielder's choice groundouts to shortstop before Rex Brothers came on out of the bullpen and set down Belt on another ground ball to shortstop.

Yacko (4-2) earned the victory after tossing a scoreless inning of relief. Brothers was credited with his third save of the year.

For the third straight game in the series, the Giants scored first as Peguero delivered a two-out, two-run single down the left field line in the bottom of the third inning to give San Jose a 2-0 lead.

Giants starter Eric Surkamp struck out six over three scoreless innings to begin his outing before running into trouble in the top of the fourth. Michael Mitchell led off with a bloop single to right before Tim Wheeler's bunt single put runners on first and second. After a wild pitch, Jordan Pacheco brought home one run with a groundout to shortstop and then Ryan Peisel delivered a sacrifice fly to right plating Wheeler making it 2-2.

Belt gave San Jose back the lead with a solo home run to deep left center field in the bottom of the fourth, but Modesto again answered with two more runs in the fifth. David Christensen led off with a single before Michael Zuanich doubled to put runners on second and third. After Radames Nazario popped out, Seabury grounded a single down the left field line plating both runners to give the Nuts a 4-3 advantage.

Surkamp worked six innings with four runs (all earned) and five hits allowed. The left-hander struck out seven and walked none. Ben Wilshire (2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO) relieved Surkamp to begin the top of the seventh and fired two perfect innings out of the bullpen. Surkamp, Wilshire and Quirarte had combined to set down 14 consecutive Modesto hitters until Cesario's 10th-inning triple.

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