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McKinney's Complete Game Silences Ports

July 31, 2019 - California League (CalL1)
Stockton Ports News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. - Modesto Nuts starting pitcher Ian McKinney (9-4) collected his team's second complete game of the season on Tuesday night at Banner Island Ballpark. McKinney allowed just two hits while his team scored five runs in the fourth inning as Modesto earned a 5-1 win over the Stockton Ports to open a three-game series.

Marco Estrada started the game for Stockton on a Major League rehab assignment and worked two innings, pitching around a leadoff double in the second inning by Jake Scheiner and retired six of the seven batters he faced. Estrada threw 20 pitches, 15 for strikes.

Mitchell Jordan (8-7) took over for Estrada in the third and ran into trouble in the fourth. Jarred Kelenic and Joe Rizzo opened the inning with back-to-back singles and Scheiner drew a walk to load the bases. Keegan McGovern came up next and broke the scoreless tie with a two-run single to right that gave the Nuts a 2-0 lead. After Connor Kopach added a run with a sac-fly to right, Ariel Sandoval walked, and Nick Thurman followed with a single to right that scored McGovern. Thurman would then get hung up between first and second, at which point Sandoval scored coming down the line from third to run the Nuts lead to 5-0.

Jordan would suffer the loss, going 4 2/3 innings and allowing five runs on four hits while walking three and striking out two.

McKinney, meanwhile, retired the first 16 batters he faced to take him one out deep into the sixth inning. Robert Mullen came up with one out in the sixth and broke up the perfect game bid with a home run to right field that put Stockton on the board and made it a 5-1 game. Two batters later with two outs, Jameson Hannah singled to center but soon thereafter would be caught trying to advance on a pitch in the dirt to end the inning.

McKinney went on to retire the final nine batters that he faced to close out the ballgame and faced just one over the minimum for the night, setting down 26 of the 28 batters he faced. He allowed two hits while striking out 12, falling one strikeout shy of matching a career-high total.

The Ports and Nuts play the second game of their three-game series on Wednesday night at Banner Island Ballpark. Xavier Altamirano (5-7, 4.64 ERA) makes the start for Stockton, opposed by Modesto right-hander Clay Chandler (0-1, 8.10 ERA). First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. PDT.

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