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Quakes Fall from First, Home Friday for $1 Family Feast

June 3, 2016 - California League (CalL1)
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Rancho Cucamonga, CA - The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes have lost three straight games for the first time this season, losing to the Lake Elsinore Storm, 2-1, on Thursday night at LoanMart Field.

With their second straight loss in this series, the Quakes have now lost three of their last four series and find themselves out of first place, a full game behind the High Desert Mavericks.

The Storm scored in the very first inning, taking advantage of an Erick Mejia error. Luis Urias led off the game with a routine ground ball to short, but Mejia airmailed the throw to first base for his team-high 19th error of the season. Urias eventually scored on an RBI groundout from Franmil Reyes to make it 1-0 Storm.

The game stayed that way until the sixth inning, when the Storm tacked on another run. Josh Van Meter led off with a single and stole second base. Then, Reyes doubled Van Meter home with his second RBI of the night, and fifth RBI of the series to make it 2-0 Lake Elsinore after six innings.

Rancho Cucamonga rallied in the eighth inning against the Storm's bullpen, loading the bases after Joey Curletta singled, and Jordan Tarsovich and Tim Locastro walked to bring up Matt Beaty. Beaty worked a two-out walk to bring home Curletta to cut Lake Elsinore's lead to 2-1. Johan Mieses followed Beaty's RBI walk by striking out, stranding the tying run at third base. The Quakes went quietly in the ninth, as Brad Wieck retired the side 1-2-3.

The Quakes were only able to muster five hits on Thursday, all of them singles. Rancho also went 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position.

Chris Huffman (5-1), picked up the win for Lake Elsinore. He went six innings, and allowed just four hits and no runs, while striking out four. He extended his scoreless streak against Rancho Cucamonga to 16 innings. Wieck picked up his first save of the season for the Storm, albeit of the four-out variety to close the door for the game-two win. The Storm improve to .500 on the season with the win, with a 27-27 overall record.

Josh Sborz (4-3), took the tough-luck loss after allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits in 5.2 innings, striking out five. Phillip Pfeifer tossed 1.1 scoreless innings out of the bullpen, and former major-leaguer Daniel Corcino debuted for the Quakes and tossed two scoreless frames.

With the loss, Rancho Cucamonga is now 32-22 overall on the season, and drop a game out of first place after the High Desert Mavericks won on Thursday against Modesto.

The Quakes' seven-game home stand continues on Friday in the series-finale against the Storm. First pitch is at 7:05 p.m. It'll be another Family RV $1 Family Feast night! Join us for $1 hot dogs, Pepsi products and ice cream sandwiches throughout the night, all thanks to Family RV. Tickets are available at (909) 481-5000 or rcquakes.com.

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