Giants Take Game Three Despite Pineda's 10th Homer

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Giants Take Game Three Despite Pineda's 10th Homer

July 4, 2025 - California League (CalL)
Stockton Ports News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. - The Giants won the Banner Island Ballpark leg of the Fourth of July week series with a 5-2 win over the Ports on Thursday night.

The Ports (36-42, 4-8) got on the board early when Pedro Pineda homered (10) in the second inning for a 1-0 lead, as he belted a ball 397 feet into left center. But the Stockton offense would get stuck in neutral from there, while the Giants (51-27, 9-3) bats helped them race ahead.

Starter Jefferson Jean got out of a two-out bases loaded jam in the top of the second, but couldn't get out of a one-out, bases juiced situation in the third unscathed. He walked a pair, allowed a single and hit a batter to let San Jose tie the game at 1-1.

The Giants would take the lead in the fourth when Walker Martin singled through the left side to plate a pair and put San Jose up 3-1. Stockton loaded the bases in the sixth and cut it to a one run game at 3-2 on a C.J. Pittaro RBI single into right to score Ali Camarillo. But reliever Ubert Mejias would retire then next two Ports to end the frame and maintain San Jose's one run advantage.

Martin would single through the left side again to start the seventh and come in to score on a Jeremiah Jenkins base hit for a 4-2 lead. The Giants got an insurance run in the ninth on a sac fly from Rayner Arias for his first RBI with San Jose, scoring Martin again to go up 5-2. The Ports would go down in order in the ninth, giving the Giants the series two games to one.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS: Pineda's home run ties him for third in the Cal League with the Giants Martin and Jakob Christian. He extended his on-base streak to 12 games, as did Cameron Leary with a walk in the sixth.

UP NEXT: The series shifts to San Jose, Calif. with a 6:30 PM scheduled first pitch at Excite Ballpark, with LHP Jacob Bresnahan (3-2, 3.18) starting for the Giants versus RHP Cole Miller (0-0, 2.25) for the Ports. Single game tickets, mini plans, and group outings are all on sale for the 2025 season. For more information, call the Ports front office at 209-644-1900 or email at info@stocktonports.com.

Tim Fitzgerald 415-420-2412 tfitzgerald@stocktonports.com About the Ports The City of Stockton has a long, rich baseball history. Professional baseball first came to the city in 1888, when the Stockton ballclub won the independent California League's inaugural championship. That same summer, Ernest Thayer reportedly drew the inspiration for his famous poem "Casey at the Bat" at a Stockton home game, which were played on the same site as present-day Banner Island Ballpark.

The current era in Stockton's professional baseball history began in 1941 with the Stockton Fliers, a charter member of the California League. After a four-season hiatus during World War II from 1942-45, the franchise returned in 1946 with a new nickname: the Stockton Ports, a nod to the city's massive seaport - the biggest inland port in the state of California and the hub of transport and commerce in the San Joaquin Valley.

Upon its return in 1946, the California League also re-established itself with teams in Stockton, Bakersfield, Fresno, Modesto, Santa Barbara and Visalia. Today, the Ports are a part of an eight-team league with teams in Modesto, San Jose, Visalia, Fresno, San Bernardino (Inland Empire), Lake Elsinore and Rancho Cucamonga.

The Ports disbanded after the 1972 season, but returned in 1978 as the Stockton Mariners, only to change their name back to the Ports in 1979. The franchise underwent two more temporary name changes, as the Stockton Mudville Nine from 1982-84 and the Mudville Nine in 2000 and 2001 but have remained the Ports since 2002.

Despite the name changes, the Ports have enjoyed plenty of success since the franchise's inception in 1941. The Ports have made the postseason 42 times in 70 seasons and their 11 California League Championships are tied for the most by any club (with Fresno as the Cardinals & Giants). The Ports also own the longest winning streak in league history, prevailing in 26 straight games in 1947.

During the 1980's and early 90's, Stockton enjoyed a particularly dominant stretch. In the 13 -year stretch from 1980-92, the Ports captured four California League titles, and their 977 wins were most by any team in Minor League Baseball.

The Ports' California League Championships have come in 1946, 1947, 1963, 1965, 1969, 1980, 1986, 1990, 1992, 2002, and 2008.

With a 3-1 win over the San Jose Giants on June 6, 2018, the Ports became the first team in California League history to reach the 5,000-win plateau.

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