Jacobs plates career-high seven for Reno

Mike Jacobs kept coming up to bat with men on base Sunday, and the veteran first baseman kept driving them in.

Over six plate appearances, Jacobs went 3-for-5 with a career-high seven RBIs, a home run and a double in Triple-A Reno's 17-11 win over Salt Lake at Aces Ballpark. He also scored a pair of runs.

"It was a good day," Jacobs said. "Obviously, you can't drive in that many runs unless you've got guys in front of you getting on. The guys in front of me did a great job of getting on and putting me in position to be able to drive the runs in. It definitely feels good. It was fun.

"It was better that we ended up pulling out that game, because it was kind of going back and forth there for a little bit. It was a good, big win for us."

It's noteworthy when Jacobs sets a new career high in any category considering all he has accomplished in baseball. The 33-year-old played 569 games over seven seasons in the Major Leagues, and Sunday's game was No. 1,072 in the Minors.

Jacobs spent the majority of his big-league career with the Marlins, for whom he played from 2006-'08. He hit 32 home runs his last year there, and in his first, recorded six RBIs in a May 15 game at Atlanta.

His RBIs on Sunday came via a two-run single to left in the second inning, a two-run homer to right in the third, a two-run double to center in the fourth and a run-scoring groundout to short in the sixth. All in all, there were 11 runners on base during Jacobs' six plate appearances.

"It is [special]," the California native said of his new career high. "Obviously, it's not at the big-league level, it's down here, but hopefully it's something to help keep people noticing."

This season -- his third at Reno -- Jacobs is batting .363/.429/.606 with eight home runs and 36 RBIs through 42 games. He leads the PCL with 58 hits, is tied for second with 15 doubles and ranks fourth with 97 total bases. His average is fourth in the league, and his 1.035 OPS and his RBI total stand fifth.

While Jacobs -- who has an out in his contact to play in Japan if that became an option -- is happy in Reno, making it back to "The Show" is what he wants most.

"I think I've done good things the last four or five years to prove that I still belong there or what have you," he said, before noting that Arizona is set at first base with Paul Goldschmidt. "But at the same time, you have to have opportunity. You have to be in the right spot in the right time.

"I kind of play with a double-edged sword down here. If I don't play well, it's because I'm old and I'm washed up and I'm no good anymore. If I play well, it's because I'm supposed to play well because I have a resume of being in the big leagues and things like that."

Jacobs certainly did his part Sunday. After getting beaned in the first, he strung together four consecutive productive at-bats before flying out with a man on third to end the eighth.

In addition to putting 28 runs on the board, the two teams combined for 31 hits. Reno's Nick Evans and Andy Marte had three RBIs apiece, while Didi Gregorius posted four hits.

Roberto Lopez led the way with two home runs for Salt Lake, finishing with three hits and four RBIs. The Bees' Kole Calhoun also had three hits, and Matt Long drove in three runs.

"We had a bunch of guys with a bunch of RBIs and stuff too, a bunch of hits," Jacobs said. "It was just one of those games, almost kind of like a fluke game where there's just a bunch of guys on and you're just getting hits at the right time. But again, like I said, it was pretty cool."