Giants Fall Behind Early, Lose 10-8 To Nuts

August 26, 2022 – California League (CalL) – San Jose Giants News Release

The San Jose Giants were unable to overcome Modesto’s nine-run third inning on Thursday night in a 10-8 loss to the Nuts at John Thurman Field. The Giants battled back in the middle innings and had the potential tying run on base late, but saw their rally fall short to suffer the defeat. With the setback, San Jose (64-53, 24-27 second half) has now dropped two of the first three games in the series to Modesto.

On a day when standout outfielders Grant McCray and Jared Dupere were promoted to High-A Eugene, the Giants enjoyed a brief early lead after a three-run top of the third inning. Trailing 1-0 at the start of the inning, Anyesber Sivira singled with one out before Hayden Cantrelle worked a walk. Aeverson Arteaga then stepped to the plate and blasted a double to the fence in deep left center field. The hit scored both Sivira and Cantrelle to give San Jose the lead and when the relay throw home skipped away to the backstop, Arteaga was able to also score to make it 3-1.

Meanwhile, Matt Mikulski started on the mound for the Giants and endured a difficult outing. Mikulski plunked Freuddy Batista with the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the first to bring home the first Nuts run. Then after San Jose took the lead in the top of the third, Mikulski gave up eight consecutive hits to begin the bottom of the inning as Modesto raced out to a sizable advantage. The pivotal rally began with Giants left fielder Damon Dues losing Hogan Windish’s high fly ball in the lights for a double. Gabriel Gonzalez followed with an RBI single into center to trim the San Jose lead to 3-2. Nuts clean-up hitter Tyler Locklear then crushed a two-run home run to deep left center to put the Nuts back ahead at 4-3. A 442-foot homer to left from Jonatan Clase followed for a 5-3 Modesto advantage. After consecutive singles from Batista and Axel Sanchez, Mikulski surrendered a two-run triple into the right field corner off the bat of Cesar Izturis Jr. to make it 7-3. Brett Rodriguez’s RBI double – the eighth straight hit for the Nuts – then pushed the margin to 8-3 and ended Mikulski’s night. Yoniel Ramirez was summoned from the bullpen and after finally recording the first out of the inning, he walked two hitters in a row before Locklear produced a two-run single – his third and fourth RBI’s of the inning – to extend the Modesto lead to 10-3. The Nuts sent 14 batters to the plate in the bottom of…