May 1, 2022 – California League (CalL) – San Jose Giants News Release
Aeverson Arteaga, Yorlis Rodriguez and Grant McCray each homered while the Giants bullpen worked six scoreless innings in a 5-3 victory over the Modesto Nuts on Sunday afternoon at Excite Ballpark. San Jose rallied from an early deficit with Arteaga’s solo shot in the bottom of the seventh putting the Giants ahead for good. With the win, San Jose (12-9) salvages the finale of the series and takes two out of six games from the Nuts this week.
The Giants enjoyed an early lead on Sunday scoring once in the bottom of the first inning off of Modesto starter Michael Morales. Vaun Brown started the rally with a one-out bunt single before stealing second. Then with two down, Adrian Sugastey lined a single into left center plating Brown with the first run of the day.
Meanwhile, Keaton Winn started on the mound for the Giants, but would run into trouble in the top of the second. A pair of singles for the Nuts put runners on the corners with one out before Randy Bednar’s sacrifice fly tied the game 1-1. Colin Davis then stepped to the plate and launched a two-out, two-run home run to deep left center giving Modesto a 3-1 lead.
The Giants began their comeback in the bottom of the third when McCray led off with a towering solo home run to center. The homer, McCray’s second of the series and of the season, trimmed the Nuts advantage to 3-2.
After Trevor McDonald worked scoreless fourth and fifth innings out of the San Jose bullpen to keep the deficit at a single run, the Giants would tie the game with a single tally in the bottom of the fifth. McCray led off with a single before Brown worked a walk. A wild pitch then moved McCray, the possible tying run, to third. Arteaga was up next and he flied out to shallow right with McCray thrown out at home on the play as he tagged and attempted to score. San Jose though would still push across the tying run in the inning as Sugastey came up next and laced a double…
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