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Beavers win second straight

April 17, 2005 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Portland Beavers News Release


PORTLAND, Ore. - Josh Barfield, Ben Johnson and Ben Risinger all hit home runs, and the Portland Beavers won their second in a row with a 6-5 victory over the Sacramento River Cats Saturday night at PGE Park.

The three homers accounted for all of Portland's runs leading up to the sixth, when Bobby Scales' single to left broke a 5-5 tie and scored Barfield with the game winner.

For the second straight game, Sacramento's starter was chased early, this time with Jimmy Serrano's untimely dismissal after the Beavers (4-6) struck for two runs in the fourth inning.

Serrano issued five walks and gave up five runs in 3.0 innings of work, but Tim Harikkala took the loss for the River Cats, who have dropped four straight.

Danny Patterson got the win in relief for the Beavers, who have won three of four. Brad Baker worked the final inning for his second save.

J.J. Furmaniak walked to lead off the bottom of the fourth and Barfield put the Beavers up 5-3 with a two-run blast. Serrano, who struggled to find the plate, walked the next two batters before being taken out in favor of Harikkala.

Portland starter Chris Oxspring retired 13 straight batters during one stretch, but the River Cats rallied from two runs down in the top of the sixth, tying it at 5-5 on an RBI double by Dan Johnson and a run-scoring single by Shawn Garrett.

Oxspring struck out seven batters and gave up five runs on five hits in 5.2 innings of work.

Damian Jackson drew a one-out walk in the bottom of the first and Risinger followed with a two-run homer to open the scoring.

The River Cats (5-5) tied it with Jack Cust's two-run triple to center in the second. Adam Morrissey's subsequent, broken-bat groundout to short gave Sacramento a short-lived 3-2 lead.

Johnson knotted things at 3-3 with a solo homer off the scoreboard in the second inning, his first Triple-A blast.

NOTES: Risinger's home run was his second of the year. The third-year Beaver didn't hit his second home run of the 2004 season until June 25 ... Scales extended his hitting streak to eight games by going 1-for-3 Saturday night.

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