CalL1 San Jose Giants

Mavericks Rout Giants, Losing Streak at Seven

Published on July 17, 2016 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release


ADELANTO, CA - San Jose's losing streak reached a season-high seven games with a 16-6 defeat to High Desert on Sunday evening at Heritage Field. The Mavericks hit five home runs in the contest and have now gone deep nine times in the first two games of the series. The Giants (48-46) fell to 0-6 on their road trip.

Ronnie Jebavy (3-for-5, 2B, HR, 2 RBI) hit his ninth home run of the season and finished a triple shy of the cycle to lead San Jose offensively on Sunday. Ehire Adrianza (2-for-4, HR, 2 RBI) and Dylan Davis (1-for-5, RBI) also homered for the Giants.

High Desert never trailed in the game scoring three runs in the bottom of the second against San Jose starter Jose Morel to take an early 3-0 lead. Jose Cardona walked to start the frame before stealing second. After Jose Trevino grounded out, Juremi Profar grounded a single up the middle to plate Cardona with the first run of the night. Jairo Beras then crushed an 0-2 pitch from Morel over the fence in left center for a two-run homer. The home run pushed the Mavericks lead to 3-0.

San Jose immediately answered in the top of the third as Ty Ross drew a leadoff walk before Jebavy stepped to the plate with two outs and launched a two-run home run to left. The round-tripper brought the Giants to within 3-2.

Still down by one run, San Jose threatened in the top of the fourth against High Desert starter Ariel Jurado as Jonah Arenado walked to start the inning before a two-out single from Daniel Carbonell put runners on first and second. Jurado though induced Ross to groundout back to the mound to end the inning.

The Mavericks then exploded for five runs against Morel in the bottom of the fourth. Following a leadoff walk to Profar, Morel allowed a single to Beras to put two runners on base. Michael De Leon then walked to load the bases with none out. Josh Morgan followed with a sacrifice fly to center bringing home Profar with the first run of the inning. Scott Heineman was up next and he belted a three-run home run to left to make it 7-2. Luke Tendler followed by driving the first pitch of his at-bat over the wall in right for another home run and an 8-2 lead. The second homer knocked Morel out of the game.

The Giants though used back-to-back homers of their own as part of a four-run top of the fifth to cut into the lead. Consecutive singles from Robbie Garvey and Jebavy started the rally putting runners on the corners with none out. Jurado then uncorked a wild pitch to score Garvey with the first run. One pitch later, Adrianza smacked an opposite field two-run homer to left. And then Davis homered down the left field line to trim the High Desert lead to 8-6.

San Jose had an opportunity to further cut into the Mavericks advantage in the top of the fifth, but would ultimately get no closer in the contest. Arenado followed the Davis home run with a single to chase Jurado. Nick Gardewine entered from the bullpen and promptly allowed a single to Miguel Gomez - the sixth straight hit to start the inning - putting runners on first and second with still none out. Gardewine though got T.J. Bennett to ground into a 3-6-1 double play and after a walk to Carbonell, retired Ross on a groundout to end the inning.

High Desert then took control of the game with back-to-back three-run innings against the Giants bullpen in the fifth and sixth. With Dusten Knight (1 1/3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 2 SO) on the mound, Profar walked with one out in the bottom of the fifth before Beras singled. De Leon then produced an RBI groundout to make it 9-6. Morgan followed with an RBI single before Heineman clubbed an RBI double to left center for an 11-6 cushion.

In the bottom of the sixth, Travis Demeritte hammered the first pitch of the inning from Pat Young (1 1/3 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 1 SO) over the fence in right for his league-leading 22nd home run of the season. Two walks followed before a Profar single loaded the bases with none out. Sacrifice flies from Beras and Morgan then pushed the lead to 14-6.

The Mavericks capped the scoring in the bottom of the eighth as Beras drilled a two-run home run to left off of Austin Fleet (2 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO) to make it 16-6.

Gardewine (3-1) earned the win after tossing four scoreless innings of relief. He surrendered just two hits, walked one and struck out six.

San Jose managed only one baserunner after the fifth inning - a two-out single from Adrianza in the top of the sixth. The final 10 Giants hitters of the game were retired.

Morel (2-4) was tagged for a career-high eight runs (all earned) on six hits over 3 1/3 innings to take the loss. He walked three, hit two batters and struck out one.

Notes: * San Jose's seven-game skid is their longest losing streak since dropping 10 in a row from May 27-June 5, 2012. * The Giants have allowed 67 runs and 17 home runs during the current seven-game losing streak (10.44 team ERA). * Adrianza is batting .381 (8-for-21) with three home runs and six RBI's during his rehabilitation assignment with San Jose (six games). * Davis has homered in back-to-back games and three times over his last four games overall. * The Mavericks out-hit the Giants 15-10 on Sunday. High Desert was 7-for-14 (.500 AVG) with runners in scoring position. * Jebavy has hit five out of his nine home runs in July. * Gomez finished 1-for-4 with a single in his first game with San Jose. He was promoted from Augusta (A) on Saturday after batting a South Atlantic League-leading .371 with the GreenJackets. * The Giants have hit 21 home runs in July - second in the California League. * San Jose's current six-game road losing streak is also a season-high.

On Deck: The Giants and Mavericks continue their four-game series on Monday evening with first pitch at Heritage Field scheduled for 7:05 PM. Mark Reyes (7-4, 4.24 ERA) is slated to start on the mound for San Jose while High Desert is expected to counter with Tyler Davis (3-4, 4.47 ERA). The game can be heard live on sjgiants.com with coverage beginning at 6:35 PM.

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