Kemmer Powers Grizzlies To Third Straight Win
April 21, 2016 - Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Fresno Grizzlies News Release
Offense was at a premium Wednesday night in Downtown Fresno, as the Grizzlies (7-5) and Salt Lake Bees (10-4) combined for just six hits (three apiece). It was the lowest combined hit total of the season by five, but the Grizz were hardly complaining by night's end thanks to one of their first-year bats.
Leading 1-0 in the fourth, a Matt Duffy one-out walk was followed by Jon Kemmer's first Triple-A home run, a blast to left field. The two-run shot made it a 3-0 game in favor of Fresno.
Salt Lake starter Tyler Skaggs (loss, 0-1) surrendered the homer, and would only last three and two-thirds innings. The lefty allowed just two hits, but three runs and three walks with four strikeouts.
The Bees earned two runs back in the fifth, registering the first hits of the night off Grizzlies' starter Michael Feliz. Juan Graterol's single put two on, and a batter later Quentin Berry cleared the bases on a near homer off the wall in left, settling for a stand-up, two-run double to make the score 3-2.
Feliz (win, 1-0) went five innings, allowing just the two runs on two hits, with three walks and three strikeouts.
The Grizzlies came tantalizingly close to adding insurance in both the seventh and eighth, loading the bases in both innings only to leave them that way. It mattered naught for closer James Hoyt, who saved his fourth game of the year and second in as many nights. In a perfect ninth, he struck out the final two Bees he faced.
The only sour note on the evening was Danny Worth's PCL-best 10-game hitting streak coming to an end (0-for-4).
Game three of the four-game series is set for Thursday evening at 7:05 p.m. at Chukchansi Park, the seventh game of this opening eight-game homestand. The Grizzlies will throw RHP Brad Peacock (0-0, 1.80), who leads the Pacific Coast League with just a .100 average against in two starts. Salt Lake will counter with LHP Chris Jones (0-0, 2.25).
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