Miscues Cost Ports in 15-4 Loss

MODESTO, Calif. — The Ports committed too many mistakes on Saturday at John Thurman Field to stay with the Nuts in a 15-4 loss in the penultimate game of the 2024 season.

Rodney Green Jr. started started the scoring with a 412-foot, two-run homer (3) in the first inning to make it 2-0 Ports, when he went down to get a curve ball that he belted out to deep right.

After scoring a run in the bottom of the first on an RBI ground out, the Nuts would take advantage of Ports miscues for their ensuing rallies. A wild pitch from Jake Pfennings took a big enough bounce to score two runs in the second inning to put Modesto ahead 3-2.

The Nuts put up a five spot on the fourth to go up 8-2 after Pfennings left with one on and one out. Reliever Wilfred Alvarado uncorked four wild pitches and allowed a double and a triple, along with a liner into left that ended up an inside-the-park home run for Carter Dorighi.

Tommy White and Green Jr. each drove in a run in the top of the fifth, but Modesto scored four more in the bottom of the inning, capitalizing on two hit batsmen, two walks, and a wild pitch off Alvarado and Derek Corro to go up 12-4. Two more walks, two more wild pitches, and an error and a passed ball led to three more runs for the Nuts and a 15-4 lead.

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The series and 2024 season finale will be a rematch of Tuesday’s starters in RHP Alejandro Manzano for Stockton versus Modesto’s RHP Elijah Dale. Manzano tossed a season-high 5.1 innings on 81 pitches in game one, allowing just one run that scored after he exited.

Season tickets, mini plans, and flex plans for 2025 will be on sale at a later date. For more information contact the Ports front office at 209-644-1900 or at [email protected].