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Giants Take Series from Rawhide with 8-4 Win

June 3, 2016 - California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


SAN JOSE, CA - Ronnie Jebavy and Steven Duggar each blasted two-run homers while Jason Forjet struck out 11 over seven dominant innings of work to lead the San Jose Giants to an 8-4 win over the Visalia Rawhide on Friday evening at Municipal Stadium. With the victory, the Giants (33-21) took two out of three games in the series and moved into a first-place tie with Visalia (33-21) in the first half North Division race. 16 games remain in the half.

Forjet (6-3) matched a career-high in strikeouts with Friday's stellar start. The right-hander surrendered just one run and four hits with one walk during his seven-inning masterpiece. The 11 strikeouts are the most by a San Jose pitcher in a game this season.

Duggar (3-for-4, HR, 2 RBI) had three hits, including his eighth home run of the season, to lead the way at the plate for the Giants. Ty Ross (2-for-4, 2B, RBI) and Robbie Garvey (2-for-4) also finished with multi-hit games.

San Jose took a 2-0 lead with a pair of runs against Rawhide starting pitcher Josh Taylor in the bottom of the third. Ross started the rally with a one-out single before Jebavy stepped to the plate with two down and launched a two-run home run to left. The homer was Jebavy's second of the homestand and fourth this season.

Forjet retired 10 out of the first 11 batters of his outing notching two strikeouts each in the second and third innings. Visalia then scratched across a run in the top of the fourth to cut the Giants lead in half. With one out, Marty Herum singled before a walk to Rudy Flores put runners on first and second. After Henry Castillo struck out, Dawel Lugo grounded a single into left plating Herum to trim the San Jose advantage to 2-1. Forjet though settled down and struck out Tyler Baker to end the inning.

The Giants then scored three times in the bottom of the fifth to push their lead to 5-1. A walk to Brandon Bednar started the frame before Ross clubbed an RBI double into the left center field gap. Then with two outs, Duggar crushed a two-run home run to right center for a 5-1 cushion.

Forjet breezed through 1-2-3 fifth and sixth inning combining for three strikeouts over the two frames. In the seventh, he surrendered a one-out triple to Lugo, but retired Baker on a shallow fly out to left before a strikeout of Victor Reyes ended the inning. The strikeout was Forjet's 11th of the season.

Pat Young entered from the bullpen to begin the top of eighth and maintained the four-run lead with a 1-2-3 inning. San Jose then rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth to break the game open. Back-to-back singles from Duggar and C.J Hinojosa started the frame before Chris Shaw walked to load the bases with none out. Jonah Arenado then struck out before Jose Vizcaino, Jr. flied out, but Bednar delivered a two-out RBI single as Duggar scored to make it 6-1. Ross was up next and he hit a slow roller to third that Lugo fielded, but threw away to first for an error. The miscue allowed two more runs to score for an 8-1 lead.

Young (2 IP, 2 H, 3 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO) finished the game for the Giants. The right-hander allowed three runs in the top of the ninth as the Rawhide rallied, but fell well short in their comeback effort. Singles from Herum and Flores started the inning before Castillo reached on an error to score the first run. Back-to-back RBI groundouts from the next two hitters, Lugo and Baker, cut the lead to 8-4, but Young quickly retired the next batter, Reyes, on a groundout to end the game.

Taylor (1-5) suffered the loss after yielding five runs (all earned) on seven hits over six innings.

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