Rawhide Rout Giants To Complete Sweep
Published on April 16, 2015 under California League (CalL1)
San Jose Giants News Release
VISALIA, CA - The Visalia Rawhide scored in six consecutive innings and took advantage of six Giants errors in a 15-5 victory over San Jose on Wednesday evening at Recreation Park. With the loss, the Giants were swept in the three-game series to finish their season-opening road trip with a 2-5 record.
Ryan Lollis homered as part of a perfect 4-for-4 night to lead San Jose offensively. Christian Arroyo also hit a home run for the Giants in defeat.
San Jose jumped out early scoring four runs in the top of the first inning to take a 4-0 lead. With one out, Arroyo belted a solo homer to deep left center for the first run of the night. The home run was Arroyo's second of the season. The rally continued when Austin Slater doubled before Tyler Horan drew a walk. Ryder Jones then reached on a fielder's choice to load the bases. Rafael Rodriguez was up next and he grounded into a force out to shortstop as Slater came home with the second run of the inning. After a passed ball with Horan at third extended the lead to 3-0, Lollis stepped to the plate and grounded an RBI single up the middle for a 4-0 advantage.
Visalia though would respond with 15 straight runs from the third through the eighth innings to take control of the game. Tyler Beede started on the mound for the Giants and retired the first six batters he faced before running into trouble in the bottom of the third. With two outs, Breland Almadova singled to left and advanced to second when the throw back to the infield bounced away for an error. Todd Glaesmann then doubled home Almadova with the first Rawhide run of the contest before Domingo Leyba delivered an RBI single to cut the deficit to 4-2.
Visalia then took advantage of two San Jose errors to plate a run in the bottom of the fourth. With one out, Fidel Pena reached on a throwing error committed by Arroyo at shortstop. Tyler Baker followed with a grounder to first that was misplayed by Brandon Bednar for another error. After a wild pitch moved Pena to third, Jamie Westbrook produced an RBI groundout to bring the Rawhide to within 4-3.
Glaesmann tied the score in the bottom of the fifth when he led off with a towering home run to left off of Beede. Visalia then took their first lead later in the frame as Daniel Palka walked with one out and scored when the next batter, Kevin Cron, doubled down the left field line.
Christian Jones relieved Beede after Cron's hit and registered back-to-back strikeouts to end the inning. The Rawhide though kept the pressure on with a six-run bottom of the sixth off of Jones (1 1/3 IP, 4 H, 6 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 4 SO) to push their lead to 11-4. Glaesmann's one-out RBI double down the right field line plated the first run of the inning. After Leyba singled and Palka was hit by a pitch to load the bases, Cron hit a slow roller in front of the plate, but reached safely when catcher Ty Ross threw the ball away to first. The error allowed two more runs to score for an 8-4 advantage. Two batters later, Pena singled home two runs before Baker greeted new pitcher Jake Smith with an RBI double to cap the scoring for the inning.
The onslaught continued in the bottom of the seventh against Smith (1 1/3 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO) as Leyba laced an RBI triple off the fence in right and then scored on Palka's sacrifice fly. In the eighth, Baker launched a two-run home run down the right field line off Mason McVay (1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO) extending the lead to 15-4.
In the top of the ninth, Lollis crushed a solo home run to right - his first of the year.
Beede (0-1) suffered the loss for the Giants after yielding five runs (four earned) on six hits over 4 1/3 innings. He walked two and struck out three.
Rawhide starter Zack Godley (2-0) earned the win after pitching five innings with four runs (three earned) and six hits allowed. Godley walked two and struck out two. He finished his outing with four scoreless innings.
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