CalL1 San Jose Giants

Giants Swept After Shutout Loss

Published on August 10, 2011 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


SAN JOSE - Three Bakersfield pitchers combined on a shutout as the Blaze completed a three-game sweep of the San Jose Giants with a 3-0 victory on Tuesday evening at Municipal Stadium. The game was scoreless until Bakersfield struck for three runs in the top of the eighth inning en route to their sixth straight win over the Giants. The loss dropped San Jose's overall record to 74-41.

Chris Heston worked six scoreless innings to begin the game for the Giants with six hits allowed, one walk and four strikeouts.

Tom Vessella relieved Heston to begin the top of the seventh and retired the first five batters that he faced until the Blaze rallied with two outs in the eighth. Ryan LaMarre reached first on a bunt single before Josh Fellhauer singled sharply to left. Brodie Greene was up next and he lined a 2-1 pitch into the left center field gap for a triple as both LaMarre and Fellhauer easily scored with the first two runs of the game. Stephen Hunt then blooped a single into shallow center plating Greene to make it 3-0.

Mace Thurman (4-3) earned the win out of the Bakersfield bullpen after holding the Giants off the scoreboard in the seventh and eighth innings. Doug Salinas picked-up his 11th save with a 1-2-3 bottom of the ninth.

Vessella (3-2) suffered the loss for San Jose after he was charged with all three runs on four hits over two innings of work. He walked none and struck out three.

The Giants threatened in the bottom of the second against Blaze starter Matt Fairel as Luke Anders and Juan Ciriaco both singled with two outs to put runners on first and second. However, Fairel induced Nick Liles to bounce out to third base ending the inning.

San Jose again put a runner into scoring position in the fifth as Liles reached on a two-out error before Gary Brown singled, but Nick Noonan grounded out to keep the game scoreless.

Fairel pitched the first six innings for the Blaze with seven hits allowed. He walked none and struck out four. The Giants did not have the leadoff batter reach base against Fairel in any of his six innings with six of the seven hits coming with two outs.

Ryan Cavan (2-for-4) and Jarrett Parker (2-for-4) both had multi-hit games for San Jose. Bakersfield out-hit the Giants by a 10-8 margin. All eight of San Jose's hits were singles.

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