CalL1 Stockton Ports

Stockton Earns Series Split with 8-4 Win

May 17, 2016 - California League (CalL1)
Stockton Ports News Release


BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - In a road trip that at times featured turbulence and frustration, the Stockton Ports finished the eight-game stretch with a mark of 5-3. The Boys of Banner Island punctuated a three-city road trip with an 8-4 win over the Bakersfield Blaze on Monday night, and in doing so earned a split of their four-game series at Sam Lynn Ballpark.

The Ports jumped out of the gate with a four-run first inning. After an error on a double-play ball put runners at first and second with nobody out, Tyler Marincov delivered a two-run double to right field that plated the first runs of the ballgame. Marincov would go on to steal third base and score on a throwing error that ensued made by catcher Daniel Torres. After John Nogowski walked, Seth Brown singled and Sandber Pimentel walked to load the bases with one out, Argenis Raga provided a sac-fly to right field to score Nogowski and make it a 4-0 game.

The Blaze got a run back with the help of the twilight sky in the second. Chantz Mack hit a fly ball deep to left-center field that James Harris lost in the sky and the lights. Mack wound up at third and scored on an ensuing sac-fly by Austin Wilson to cut the Ports lead to 4-1.

Stockton went on to score the next four runs in the game beginning with a solo home run hit by Joe Bennie in the fourth, his first of the year. It was the final run allowed by Blaze starter Tyler Herb (3-2), who suffered the loss after allowing five runs (three earned) on six hits while walking six and striking out four over four innings.

Osmer Morales took over for the Blaze in the fifth and gave up a leadoff home run to Pimentel. Raga followed with a single and, two batters later, scored on a double by Harris to make it a 7-1 lead. Harris scored two batters later on an RBI single by Bennie that ballooned the Ports lead to 8-1. Morales allowed three runs on five hits over two innings.

Ports starter Brett Graves would be unable to make it out of the fifth inning. With one out, Graves walked Gianfranco Wawoe and then gave up a double to left to Drew Jackson that scored Wawoe. Two batters later with two outs, Jay Baum singled to right to score Jackson and cut the Stockton lead to 8-3, at which point Graves was lifted for Lou Trivino who recorded the final out of the inning.

Graves would be rendered a no-decision after going 4.2 innings and allowing three runs on five hits while walking three and striking out four.

Trivino would find himself in a bases-loaded jam with nobody out in the bottom of the sixth. Wawoe came up and hit into a 3-6-3 double-play that plated a run to cut the Ports lead to 8-4. Trivino would then walk Jackson and be lifted in favor of Matt Stalcup (2-0), who walked Aaron Barbosa but then got Baum to strike out to end the inning.

Stalcup went on to pitch an inning-and-a-third without allowing a run or a hit and would be credited with the victory.

Koby Gauna came on to start the eighth and allowed a leadoff double to Torres followed by a single to Joe DeCarlo that put runners at the corners with nobody out. Gauna would strike out Wawoe, get Jackson to pop out to second base and Barbosa to ground out to end the threat. Gauna stayed on to pitch the ninth and allowed a leadoff double to Baum, but retired the next three batters in succession to strand Baum at third base and secure the victory for Stockton.

The Ports return home on Tuesday night to kick off a seven-game homestand beginning with a three-game series with the San Jose Giants. In the series opener, Heath Fillmyer (3-1, 3.79 ERA) makes the start for the Ports, opposed by Giants right-hander Martin Agosta (1-0, 0.00 ERA). First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. PDT.

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