CalL1 San Jose Giants

Giants Cruise to Seventh Consecutive Win

Published on August 24, 2013 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


BAKERSFIELD - The San Jose Giants extended their winning streak to a season-high seven games with a 10-2 victory over the Bakersfield Blaze on Friday evening at Sam Lynn Ballpark. Mac Williamson and Bobby Haney each homered as part of a 13-hit Giants offensive attack in the blowout win. The series-opening victory improved San Jose's overall record to 76-54 with 10 games remaining in the regular season.

Williamson (2-for-5, HR, 3 RBI) belted his team-leading 23rd home run of the season while Haney (2-for-4, HR, 2 RBI) connected for his fourth homer this year. Myles Schroder (3-for-6, 2 2B, SB) and Trevor Brown (2-for-4, 2 RBI) also finished with multi-hit games for the Giants.

Kyle Crick (2-1) picked-up the win after limiting the Blaze to a single run over the first five innings. Crick allowed five hits, walked four and struck out five during his stint on the mound.

San Jose jumped out to an early 3-0 lead as three straight hits started the game with all three runners eventually coming home to score. Schroder, batting leadoff for the first time this season, began the contest with a double into the left field corner before scoring when the next batter, Brock Bond, doubled down the right field line. After Williamson singled, Devin Harris was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Bakersfield starter Fabian Williamson then struck out Ricky Oropesa, but Brown and Jeff Arnold produced back-to-back RBI singles for a 3-0 advantage.

The Giants extended their lead to 5-0 with single runs in the third and fourth innings. In the top of the third, Harris doubled with one out, advanced to third on Oropesa's single and scored when Brown collected his second single of the game.

Then in the fourth, Schroder led off with a double, moved to third on a balk and later scored when Harris hit a sacrifice fly to center.

Meanwhile, Crick pitched around a pair of singles in the bottom of the first before working 1-2-3 second and third innings. The Giants starter had retired seven straight Blaze hitters until Juan Silva reached on a bunt single to begin the bottom of the fourth. Juan Silverio followed by grounding into a force out, but then a walk to Steve Selsky and an infield single from Kyle Waldrop loaded the bases. Crick recovered to strikeout Juan Duran, but then issued a walk to David Vidal to force home a run. Crick though was able to limit the damage in the inning by inducing the next batter, Danny Vicioso, to groundout to third.

Crick finished his night with a scoreless bottom of the fifth as Bakersfield had two runners thrown out at third attempting to steal in the frame.

Chris Marlowe (2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO) relieved Crick to begin the bottom of the sixth and kept the Blaze off the scoreboard in both of his innings of work. San Jose then pushed across three more runs in the eighth as consecutive singles from Haney and Schroder started the inning before Williamson stepped to the plate with one out and crushed an opposite field three-run homer to right center.

Haney capped the Giants scoring for the night with a towering two-run homer to right in the top of the ninth for a 10-1 advantage.

Jeff Soptic (2 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO) finished the game out of the San Jose bullpen pitching the bottom of the eighth and ninth innings. He set down Bakersfield 1-2-3 in the eighth before yielding one run in the ninth when Juan Perez delivered an RBI groundout to score Duran, who had led off the inning with a walk.

Williamson (1-2) took the loss for the Blaze after he was charged with five runs (all earned) on nine hits over three-plus innings. He walked three and struck out four.

Notes: Friday was the opener of a four-game series ... The Giants have scored 47 runs over the first four games of their current road trip - all wins ... San Jose out-hit Bakersfield 13-8 on Friday ... Williamson has three home runs in his last four games ... He's now tied with Roger Kieschnick (2009) and Mike Glendenning (1999) for fourth on San Jose's single-season home run list ... Harris' double was his league-leading 39th of the year ... Crick picked-up his first win since July 3 (at Modesto) ... He had received no-decisions in his last six starts ... Schroder is 11-for-21 (.524) over his last four games ... The Giants are 6-1 at Sam Lynn Ballpark this season.

On Deck: The Giants and Blaze continue their series on Saturday evening with first pitch scheduled for 7:15 PM. Kelvin Marte (5-4, 3.72 ERA) is slated to start on the mound for San Jose while Bakersfield is expected to counter with James Allen (8-10, 5.06 ERA). The game can be heard live on sjgiants.com with coverage beginning at 6:45 PM.

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