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Giants Earn Split With Modesto After 5-2 Victory

Published on July 1, 2011 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


MODESTO - Gary Brown drove home a pair of runs and the San Jose bullpen held the Modesto Nuts off the scoreboard over the last four innings in leading the Giants to a 5-2 victory on Thursday evening at John Thurman Field. Nick Liles added three hits and Alex Burg two doubles as San Jose earned a split of the four-game series. The win improved the Giants' overall record to a league-best 52-25.

Liles (3-for-5, RBI), Burg (2-for-4, 2 2B, RBI) and Jose Flores (2-for-3) all produced multi-hit games at the plate for San Jose. Brown (1-for-3, 3B, 2 RBI) brought home the go-ahead run with a fifth-inning sacrifice fly before a key RBI triple in the top of the ninth to score an insurance run.

David Mixon (5-1) picked-up his fifth win after working five innings with two runs (both earned) and four hits allowed. The Giants starter walked one and struck out four. Mitch Lively recorded his third save of the season with 1 2/3 perfect innings of relief to finish the game.

The Giants trailed by a 2-0 margin until breaking through in the top of the fourth inning against Modesto starter Nick Schnaitmann. Liles led off with a single up the middle before Burg stepped to the plate and hammered a double to the fence in left to bring home San Jose's first run of the contest. Burg then took third on a wild relay throw from second baseman Carlos Martinez. Schnaitmann recovered to strikeout Jarrett Parker, but Ryan Cavan delivered a sacrifice fly to center tying the game 2-2.

The Giants took their first lead of the evening with a single tally in the top of the fifth. With one out, Ehire Adrianza, who was playing in his first game with San Jose this season, doubled off the wall in deep right center field. A wild pitch advanced Adrianza to third before Brown came through with a sacrifice fly to right.

Mixon returned to the mound in the bottom of the fifth and issued a leadoff walk to Jose Gonzalez, but quickly got out of the inning with a strikeout of David Christensen before Delta Cleary, Jr. bounced into a double play. Andy Reichard (2 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO) tossed a perfect bottom of the sixth out of the bullpen and then worked around a leadoff single from Josh Rutledge and a one-out single off the bat of Martinez in the seventh to keep San Jose in front.

In the bottom of the eighth, Ari Ronick (1/3 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 1 SO) struck out Cleary, Jr. to begin the inning before Angelys Nina lined a single up the middle. With the potential go-ahead run at the plate, Lively (1 2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 3 SO) was then summoned from the bullpen and he promptly struck out Kent Matthes swinging and induced Nolan Arenado to fly out to deep right center.

Lively then set down the Nuts 1-2-3 in the ninth on a groundout and back-to-back swinging strikeouts.

Schnaitmann (3-8) suffered the loss for Modesto after yielding three runs (two earned) on seven hits over six innings. He walked three and struck out four.

The Nuts took an early 2-0 lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first inning against Mixon. Cleary, Jr. led off with a single before Nina was hit by a pitch to put runners on first and second. Matthes then belted an RBI double to deep left field while the second run scored two batters later on Rutledge's sacrifice fly.

Mixon settled down and faced the minimum six hitters over the next two innings before pitching around a two-out single in the fourth.

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