PCL1 Fresno Grizzlies

Balanced Attack Guides Grizzlies Past Bees

Published on July 27, 2011 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Fresno Grizzlies News Release


FRESNO- The Grizzlies offense woke up just in time to give Major League rehabber Jonathan Sanchez a win at Chukchansi Park Wednesday night. Fresno scored in each of the first six innings, cruising to a 12-3 victory over the Salt Lake Bees.

Sanchez (1-0) was solid enough, largely pitching around his seven hits and three walks allowed. In the end, he allowed just two earned runs over 6.0 innings of work, striking out five on 95 pitches, 54 of them strikes.

Fresno (45-60) got on the board in the first as Major League rehabber Bill Hall smoked the first pitch he saw on a line into the metal bleachers in left field. The Grizzlies added on with three more in the second. Max Ramirez led off with a walk and scored as Conor Gillaspie blasted his seventh home run of the season to straightaway center off the batter's eye. Brad Eldred followed with a double, moved to third on Tyler Graham's groundout, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Hector Sanchez to make it 4-0 Fresno.

The Bees (46-59) responded for a pair in the top of the third off Sanchez, but some slick defense by the other half of the Sanchez battery kept it from being worse. One out after Alexi Amarista and Gil Velazquez led off with a single and a walk, Hank Conger pulled a grounder just inside the first base bag for a two-run double. Conger was still at second with two outs when Paul McAnulty singled up the middle. Graham came up firing to the plate and Hector Sanchez leapt at the last second, snagging the ball out of mid-air and applying the tag to Conger all in one motion as he passed by to end the inning.

The Grizzlies continued to add on in support of Sanchez from there, scoring single runs in each of the next three innings. Gillaspie plated Hall with an RBI-groundout in the third, Christian plated Graham on an RBI-single in the fourth, and Ramirez drove in Pill with an RBI-single in the fifth. Every Grizzly had a hit by the time the catcher Sanchez singled to lead off the sixth.

Brett Pill hit Fresno's third home run of the night, a two-out, three-run shot just over the wall and the outstretched leap of Jeremy Moore in center field in the bottom of the sixth. That put the Grizzlies into double digits in the run column for the first time since their 13-8 win at Reno exactly one week prior. Pill went on to plate Christian with an RBI-double in the eighth, then scored on a pinch RBI-single by Tyler LaTorre to cap the scoring for Fresno.

These teams will meet for the third contest in this four-game set Thursday night at Chukchansi Park with Grizzlies southpaw Dan Runzler (1-2) taking on Bees righty Trevor Bell (1-2) at 7:05pm.

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