Home Runs Hinder Ports In 4-1 Loss
STOCKTON, Calif.- For a 13th time in 16 games, the Stockton Ports were the team that scored first on Friday night at Banner Island Ballpark. For a seventh time, the Ports lost a game in which they scored the first run. Stockton suffered its eighth consecutive home loss on Friday
STOCKTON, Calif.- For a 13th time in 16 games, the Stockton Ports were the team that scored first on Friday night at Banner Island Ballpark. For a seventh time, the Ports lost a game in which they scored the first run. Stockton suffered its eighth consecutive home loss on Friday night, falling to the Modesto Nuts by a final of 4-1 as the Nuts hit a pair of homers to boost them to their second straight victory.
Nuts starter
Newsome would earn the victory in the contest, going eight innings and allowing one run on six hits while striking out eight. Newsome pitched around back-to-back two-out hits in the eighth and struck out
Modesto took the lead in the top of the sixth inning. With one on and one out,
Poche' suffered the loss, going four innings and allowing four runs on five hits while striking out four.
The Ports and Nuts wrap up their three-game series on Saturday night at Banner Island Ballpark.