Beavers Beat River Cats

Published on August 23, 2009 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Portland Beavers News Release


WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Eliezer Alfonzo had a pair of RBI doubles and Valentino Pascucci cracked a two-run homer as the Portland Beavers earned their sixth win in seven games by beating the Sacramento River Cats 7-5 at Raley Field Sunday afternoon.

Alfonzo had three of Portland's 11 hits on the day while Chad Huffman also doubled twice for the Beavers (56-73), who won despite committing a season-high four errors.

Cesar Ramos (4-4) held the River Cats to three runs (0 earned) on three hits and a walk over five innings to earn his first win since May 23.

Matt Carson went 2-for-4 with a two-run homer and Aaron Cunningham also had two hits and scored twice for the River Cats (80-48), who dropped the first two home games of a series with the Beavers for the first time since 2004.

Alfonzo led off the second inning with a single and stole his first base in over a year before crossing the plate on Pascucci's two-run homer.

The Beavers doubled their lead to 4-0 in the third when Russ Adams singled to left to drive in Sean Kazmar and Alfonzo followed Huffman's double with his first RBI double to plate Adams.

A pair of errors by Kazmar in the fourth keyed the River Cats' three-run inning. Cunningham reached on Kazmar's fielding error to start things off and Matt Carson singled. Jeff Baisley hit an RBI double before Anthony Recker got aboard on Kazmar's throwing error. Adrian Cardenas and Yung-Chi Chen followed with a pair of RBI groundouts as Sacramento came within one.

Mike Baxter scored an insurance run for the Beavers in the seventh on a wild pitch and drove in another with an RBI double in the eighth.

The River Cats inched as close as one in the bottom of the eighth with Carson's two-run homer to left off Edwin Moreno.

Eulogio De La Cruz pitched the ninth inning to seal the victory and earn his seventh save.

Jerome Williams (4-5) took the loss, giving up four runs on five hits and four walks over five innings.

The Beavers look to win their first series in Sacramento since 2006 on Monday night at 7:05 p.m. (Pacific).

NOTES: Beavers starting pitchers have allowed just three earned runs over their last four starts (28.0 innings) ... Huffman and Alfonzo hit back-to-back doubles twice in the game ... the stolen base was Alfonzo's first since April 20, 2008, when he swiped second base at Tucson while playing for Fresno ... the Beavers have collected exactly 11 hits in five of their last six wins ... the Beavers have won their last four games against Sacramento.

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