Round Rock Express Slide Continues at Tacoma 13-6
Published on May 15, 2012 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Round Rock Express News Release
TACOMA, Wash. - Scott Savastano collected three doubles and three RBI to spearhead a 17-hit attack as the Tacoma Rainiers defeated the Round Rock Express 13-6 in Monday night's Pacific Coast League action at Cheney Stadium. The Express (17-22) have lost six straight, matching their longest skid of the season. The Rainiers (15-23) have won four straight on the heels of a seven-game slide.
Brad Nelson's first-inning RBI double gave Round Rock the game's first lead, but that was the end of the positive news for the Express. Guillermo Quiroz delivered a two-out, two-run single in the bottom of the first to erase Round Rock's lead, and Savastano followed with an RBI double. The Rainiers never relinquished that lead, adding four in the second, two in the fourth, three in the fifth and another in the sixth.
The Express, meanwhile, had only one base-runner between Nelson's first-inning double and Joey Butler's fifth-inning leadoff homer - Julio Borbon reached on a one-out error in the third. Ryan Spilborghs had a two-out RBI single in the sixth, but the Express left the bases loaded. Spilborghs added a two-run homer in the eighth, and Yangervis Solarte capped the scoring with a solo shot in the ninth.
Tacoma starter Jeff Marquez (3-3), who entered the game with a 6.06 ERA in seven starts, picked up the win. He limited the Express to three runs - two earned - on three hits, two walks and a hit batter over six innings with four strikeouts.
Round Rock starter Martin Perez (3-3) was tattooed for seven runs on eight hits and two walks over two innings for the loss; he had two strikeouts. No Express pitcher went more than two innings, and only Yoshinori Tateyama, who worked the final two innings, did not allow a run. Tateyama had two strikeouts, walked a batter and surrendered one hit.
Every Tacoma starter hit safely, seven had multiple-hit games and all but one scored. Quiroz, Carlos Peguero and Luis Antonio Jimenez all had two-RBI efforts.
Seven of nine Express starters hit safely but only Spilborghs (2-for-4) produced a multiple-hit effort. He has hit safely in each of his nine games with Round Rock, the club's seventh hitting streak of at least nine games this season. Solarte has hit safely in 24 of his last 25 games.
Round Rock and Tacoma conclude their four-game series Tuesday with a 1:35 p.m. CDT first pitch at Cheney Stadium. Right-hander Greg Reynolds (2-3, 4.12 ERA) will start for the Express, while right-hander Forrest Snow (0-3, 7.57 ERA) is slated to go for the Rainiers.
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