Giants Complete Sweep, Beat Ports 9-4
May 19, 2016 - California League (CalL1)
Stockton Ports News Release
STOCKTON, Calif. - The San Jose Giants swept the Stockton Ports for the third time this season and won their 10th straight versus Stockton Thursday afternoon at Banner Island Ballpark. Before sellout crowd of 5,372, the Giants took a 3-0 lead in the first inning and never looked back in a 9-4 win over Stockton while notching 15 hits for the third straight contest.
San Jose got off to a fast start in the first. With two on and two out, C.J. Hinojosa reached on a fielding error committed by shortstop Mikey White that loaded the bases with nobody out. Chris Shaw would hit into a double play that brought in the first run of the game. Jonah Arenado followed with an RBI double and Aramis Garcia with an RBI single to make it a 3-0 Giants lead. It marked the sixth straight contest in which the Giants scored in the top of the first inning versus Stockton.
Stockton's first run came in the bottom of the third. Sandber Pimentel hit a one-out double to right field and scored on a two-out RBI single by Melvin Mercedes that cut the deficit to 3-1. The Ports made it a one-run contest in the fourth as Joe Bennie led off with a single and scored on a two-out RBI single by Argenis Raga.
The Giants took the momentum back with a three-run top of the fifth. After the first two batters of the inning were retired by Ports starter Zack Erwin (1-4), Shaw was hit by a pitch, which started a stretch of five straight batters to reach with two outs. Arenado, Garcia, Joneshwy Fargas and Brandon Bednar all singled which netted three more runs for San Jose to increase the lead to 6-2.
Erwin failed to make it out of the fifth inning and would be hung with the loss, allowing six runs (four earned) on a career-high 10 hits while walking four and striking out two.
The Ports got two runs back in the last of the fifth versus Giants starter D.J. Snelten (2-3). With two on and two out, White lined a two-run double down the left field line to bring Stockton to within two runs at 6-4. As it turned out, those would be the final runs scored by the Ports on the afternoon.
Snelten made it through the fifth inning and picked up the win, allowing four runs on eight hits while walking three and striking out five.
San Jose's bullpen, a combination of Pat Young, Reyes Moronta and Jose Morel, combined to hold the Ports scoreless over the final four frames.
After Koby Gauna worked two-and-a-third scoreless innings, Ryan Gorton, who was added to the roster prior to the game from Double-A Midland, took over to start the eighth. Gorton, who played with Stockton in 2014 as a catcher, struggled in his first appearance as a pitcher at Banner Island Ballpark. After giving up a leadoff single to Fargas, Gorton yielded a two-run homer to Bednar that gave the Giants an 8-4 cushion. San Jose went on to load the bases with nobody out after the home run and Hinojosa provided a sac-fly to left field to score Christian Paulino and make it a 9-4 Giants advantage.
Gorton allowed three runs on four hits in his lone inning of work. Rob Huber set the side down in order in the ninth.
After being swept by the Giants, the Ports welcome the Visalia Rawhide to Banner Island Ballpark for the first time this season to begin a four-game set on Friday night. Daniel Gossett (2-1, 3.86 ERA) makes the start in the series opener for Stockton, opposed by Visalia right-hander Ethan Elias (2-2, 5.17 ERA). First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. PDT.
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