CalL1 San Jose Giants

Giants Suffer Fifth Consecutive Loss

Published on August 18, 2010 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


Visalia's Marc Krauss homered and collected three RBI's while the Rawhide took a shutout into the ninth inning en route to a 4-1 victory over the San Jose Giants on Tuesday evening at Recreation Park. San Jose scored their only run of the contest on Drew Biery's fielder's choice groundout in the final inning as the Giants suffered their season-high fifth consecutive loss. The defeat drops San Jose's overall record to 65-55.

Jorge Bucardo (1-1) was charged with his first loss since joining the Giants after surrendering four runs (all earned) on nine hits over five innings of work. Bucardo struck out four and walked two.

Charlie Culberson (2-for-4, 2 2B) knocked out a pair of doubles while Juan Perez (2-for-4) also had two hits to lead the offensive attack. The Giants finished with seven hits and were only 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position.

The game was scoreless until Visalia plated three runs in the bottom of the third inning against Bucardo. Consecutive one-out singles from Alfredo Marte and Kyle Greene put runners on first and second before Krauss stepped to the plate and belted a two-run triple off the fence in straightaway center field. Paul Goldschmidt then delivered an RBI groundout to third as Krauss came home to make it 3-0.

Krauss extended the Rawhide lead to 4-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning with a leadoff homer to deep right field. The home run was Krauss' 24th of the season.

Taylor Sinclair (8-5) earned the win for Visalia after tossing five-plus innings of long relief and yielding just one unearned run on six hits. Sinclair entered the game to begin the top of fourth and immediately allowed a leadoff double to Culberson. After Michael Sandoval flied out to right advancing Culberson to third, Jose Flores drew a walk. However, Sinclair pitched out of trouble inducing Johnny Monell to pop out before Ehire Adrianza grounded out.

In the top of the fifth, James Simmons walked with one out while Perez singled to put runners on first second, but Francisco Peguero followed by grounding into an inning-ending 6-4-3 double play.

Sinclair then worked around a two-out single in the sixth from Flores and a two-out double in the top of the eighth off the bat of Culberson to keep the shutout intact. The Giants finally broke through in the top of the ninth as Flores led off by reaching on an error before consecutive singles from Monell and Adrianza loaded the bases with none out and brought the potential tying run to the plate. Closer Yonata Ortega though was summoned from the bullpen and after inducing Biery to bounce into a fielder's choice as Flores scored, he retired pinch-hitter Wendell Fairley on a pop out and struck out Perez on three pitches to end the game.

Ortega, who has yet to allow a run in six relief appearances with the Rawhide, was credited with his fifth California League save of the year.

Pat Corbin started on the mound for Visalia and tossed three scoreless frames before exiting the game after reaching his predetermined inning-limit. Corbin allowed just one single, walked one and struck out five.

Ben Wilshire (2 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 4 SO) retired all six batters that he faced out of the Giants bullpen in the sixth and seventh innings before Edwin Quirarte (1 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 2 SO) worked a perfect bottom of the eighth. San Jose pitchers combined to set down the final 11 Rawhide hitters of the contest.

Notes: The Giants have lost five games in a row for the first time since dropping six straight in July of 2008 ... Visalia out-hit San Jose by a 9-7 margin ... Peguero (0-for-4) saw his eight-game hitting streak come to an end ... Beginning Tuesday, 11 of San Jose's final 21 regular season games are against the Rawhide ... The Giants have lost their last four games to Visalia, but still own a 9-7 advantage in the season series ... Krauss is hitting .418 (23-for-55) with three homers and 13 RBI's in 15 games against San Jose this year ... The Giants are 2-for-24 with runners in scoring position over their last two games.

On Deck: The Giants and Rawhide continue their four-game series on Wednesday evening with first pitch at Recreation Park scheduled for 7:00 PM. Oliver Odle (11-5, 5.19 ERA) is slated to start on the mound for San Jose while Visalia is expected to counter with Eric Smith (2-4, 8.48 ERA). The game can be heard live on www.sjgiants.com.

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