Giants 17 Hits Puts Ports 2.5 Games Back
Published on May 11, 2005 under California League (CalL1)
Stockton Ports News Release
On a fairly cool evening at Banner Island Ballpark the visiting San Jose Giants' bats were hot.
San Jose pounded out 17 hits in cruising to a 10-2 win over the Stockton Ports Tuesday night.
It was a poor way to open a homestand that features seven games in six days for the Ports, all against Northern division foes.
"That's just baseball," Vasili Spanos said. "Look at the scoreboard. They had 17 hits and we had four hits. This game was just blah."
Clay Timpner smacked three doubles and scored three times, sparking a Giants' attack that touched Stockton starter Danielin Acevedo for eight runs over 6.1 innings of work.
San Jose scored three times in the first on four hits, before Acevedo had even recorded an out.
Spanos nailed a solo homer in the second and the Ports cut the deficit to 3-2 on a Kurt Suzuki sac-fly in the fourth.
"That was a big hit at the time," Spanos said of his second homer of the year. They were up 3-0 and it cut into the deficit a little. He left the ball over the plate and it's about time you know."
Acevedo dropped his record to 0-3.
Stockton fell to 16-14 on the season. The Ports now sit 2.5 games back of San Jose in the Northern division.
Stockton native Dallas Braden will put his 5-0 record on the line when he takes the mound for the Ports as the series continues Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.
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