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Giants Drop Finale to Mavericks, Split Series

June 15, 2015 - California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


ADELANTO, CA - The San Jose Giants split their four-game series with High Desert after a 7-5 loss to the Mavericks on Sunday evening at Heritage Field. High Desert overcame an early two-run deficit taking the lead for good with a sixth-inning rally before holding off San Jose late. The Giants (27-36) are still without a road series win this season.

Hunter Cole (1-for-3, HR, RBI) and Tyler Horan (1-for-4, HR, RBI) each smacked solo home runs while Austin Slater (2-for-4), Ty Ross (2-for-4, 2B) and Brandon Bednar (2-for-4, 2B, RBI) finished with two hits apiece to lead San Jose offensively in defeat.

The Giants took an early 1-0 lead in the top of the first when Cole belted a two-out solo homer to deep left center. The home run was Cole's fifth of the season.

Ray Black started on the mound for San Jose, but lasted just 2/3 of an inning. The right-hander walked four out of the six batters he faced and allowed one run. A walk to Lewis Brinson started the bottom of the first before consecutive one-out walks to Ryan Cordell and Alex Burg loaded the bases. Black settled down to strikeout Royce Bolinger, but then uncorked a wild pitch allowing Brinson to score the tying run. Black walked Zach Cone to again load the bases, but Andrew Leenhouts entered from the bullpen and retired Ronald Guzman on a groundout to end the inning.

The Giants reclaimed the lead with a two-run top of the fourth against Mavericks starter David Ledbetter. Cole was hit by a pitch before Slater singled to put runners on first and second. After Horan struck out, Ben Turner stepped to the plate and ripped an RBI double into deep left center for a 2-1 San Jose advantage. Brian Ragira then grounded out to second plating Slater to make it 3-1.

Leenhouts worked perfect bottom of the second and third innings before running into trouble in the bottom of the fourth. A double from Bolinger - High Desert's first hit of the game - started the inning. Bolinger then moved to third on a groundout and scored when Guzman reached on a fielding error committed by Bednar at third. The run cut the Giants lead in half at 3-2.

Leenhouts bounced back with a 1-2-3 bottom of the fifth, but then surrendered three straight singles to Cordell, Burg and Bolinger to start the sixth as Mavericks loaded the bases. A five-pitch walk to Cone followed to tie the game 3-3. Christian Jones was then summoned and he induced Guzman to hit a high pop-up into shallow center. The ball though was dropped by the second baseman Slater allowing Burg to race home with the go-ahead run. The Giants did recover on the play to force out Cone at second base for the first out of the inning. Kevin Torres then delivered an RBI groundout to push the High Desert lead to 5-3.

San Jose answered with a run in the top of the seventh, but had the potential tying run at third base with none out and could not draw even. A single from Ragira started the rally before Ross doubled down the left field line to put runners on second and third. Bednar followed with a line drive RBI single into right as Ragira scored to make it 5-4 while Ross, the tying run, advanced to third. Seth Harrison though flied out to shallow right before Christian Arroyo grounded into a double play to end the inning as the Mavericks maintained their lead.

High Desert kept the pressure on in the bottom of the seventh as Cone launched a two-out, two-run homer to left off of Jones to extend the lead to 7-4. Cone homered in all four games in the series (five total homers).

Horan's hit a two-out solo home run in the top of the eighth to bring the Giants to within 7-5, but San Jose would get no closer. In the top of the ninth, Ross led off with a single to bring the tying run to the plate, but Bednar lined into a double play to first before Harrison flied out to right to finish the game.

Ledbetter (1-5) picked-up the win after working six-plus innings with four runs (all earned) and seven hits allowed. He struck out three and walked none. Jefri Hernandez pitched the top of the ninth for his fourth save of the season.

Leenhouts (0-2) was charged with four runs (all earned) on four hits in 4 1/3 innings and was saddled with the loss. The left-hander walked one and struck out one.

Notes:

* Sunday was the 11th and final game of the season-series between San Jose and High Desert - all played within the last 19 days. The Mavericks won the season-series 6-5. High Desert hit 20 home runs in the 11 games.

* Cole extended his hitting streak to nine games with his first-inning home run.

* With two hits Sunday, Slater is 12-for-24 (.500) over his last five games.

* The Giants out-hit the Mavericks 10-7.

* The teams were a combined 3-for-19 with runners in scoring position (San Jose 2-for-10, High Desert 1-for-9).

* The Giants fell to 11-21 on the road this season.

* Black (2/3 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 4 BB, 2 SO) was making the first start of his professional career after 40 relief appearances.

On Deck: The Giants continue their road trip on Monday evening with the opener of a three-game series against the Modesto Nuts at John Thurman Field. First pitch is scheduled for 7:05 PM. Tommy Hanson (0-0, ---) is slated to start on the mound for San Jose while Modesto is expected to counter with Zach Jemiola (0-1, 3.86 ERA). The game can be heard live on sjgiants.com with coverage beginning at 6:35 PM.

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