JETHAWKS ON BRINK AFTER LOSS TO PORTS STOCKTON 11, JETHAWKS 4.Byline: Gideon Rubin Staff Writer LANCASTER - Kyle Nichols set a new franchise record with his 31st home run, but the JetHawks lost an opportunity to gain ground in the wild-card race after a sloppy 11-4 loss to the Stockton Ports The Stockton Ports are a baseball team in Stockton, California, USA. The Ports play in the Northern Division of the Class A California League and is a minor league affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. on Friday, when the two teams combined for nine errors. Lake Elsinore (73-64) lost 7-5 to High Desert, but the Storm reduced it's magic number to one after the JetHawks (71-67) fell 2 1/2 games back in the standings. Lake Elsinore, which has three games remaining, assured itself of no worse than a tie with the JetHawks, which has two games left. In the event of a tie, the two teams would play one game at Lake Elsinore on Tuesday. With the JetHawks trailing 6-0 in the bottom of the third inning, Nichols lined a three-run shot to left. Lancaster, which had three hits, took advantage of two of the Ports' five errors in the fifth inning, when it closed to within 6-4 on Edgar Varela's sacrifice fly. But Stockton broke open an 8-4 game in the eighth on Marc Marizzi's three-run homer off JetHawks reliever Corby Medlin. --Notes: Utilityman Andy Wilson, a Palmdale resident who signed with the JetHawks parent Arizona Diamondbacks This article is about the baseball team. For other uses, see Diamondback. The Arizona Diamondbacks (also referred to as the D-backs) are a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of the National League. on Thursday, was assigned to Lancaster on Friday. ... Outfielder Marland Williams and catcher Joe Wilkins started their three-game suspensions for their involvement in the Aug. 18 brawl. --Matchup: Right-hander Ryan Holsten (0-0, 2.45 ERA) will pitch for the JetHawks when they host Stockton tonight at 7:15. Right-hander John Barnett John Barnett (1802—16 April 1890) was an English composer and writer on music. Life Barnett was the eldest son of a Prussian Jew named Bernhard Beer, who changed his surname on settling in England as a jeweller. (4-14, 5.08 will pitch for the Ports. Gideon Rubin (818) 713-3607 gideon.rubin(at)dailynews.com MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT Thursday's top performers: Jack Cassel Joseph Buren "Jack" Cassel (born August 8, 1980, in Northridge, California) is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the San Diego Padres. College Years Cassel attended L.A. (Kennedy High of Granada Hills) threw a scoreless inning for Single-A Lake Elsinore. ... Tyler Adamczyk (Westlake) allowed two earned runs and struck out three in six innings, earning his seventh victory of the season for Single-A Peoria (Ill.). ... Kevin Estrada (Pepperdine) doubled, drove in two runs, scored once and stole his 20th base for Single-A New Jersey. ... Fernando Valenzuela Jr. (St. Francis of La Canada/Glendale College) went 3 for 3 with a double, three runs scored, an RBI RBI abbr. Baseball runs batted in Noun 1. rbi - a run that is the result of the batter's performance; "he had more than 100 rbi last season" run batted in and his first professional stolen base at Vancouver. ... Conor Jackson(El Camino Real El Camino Real (Spanish for The Royal Road or The King's Highway) was the name of a series of pre-automobile highways linking the various New World colonies of Spain:
Flores (flōrəs), town (1990 est. pop. 2,200), capital of Petén department, N Guatemala. Flores was built on an island in the southern part of Lake Petén Itzá and on the site of the and Justin Lehr threw a combined 2 2/3 scoreless, hitless innings for Triple-A Sacramento. - Chris Cocoles CAPTION(S): box Box: MINOR-LEAGUE REPORT (see text) |
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