66ers Blank Ports 4-0 To Take Series
STOCKTON, Calif. - For the second time in three games and for a fifth time on the season, the Stockton Ports were shut out on Sunday afternoon at Banner Island Ballpark. The Inland Empire 66ers scored three runs in the fifth inning and held the Ports to just five hits
STOCKTON, Calif. - For the second time in three games and for a fifth time on the season, the Stockton Ports were shut out on Sunday afternoon at Banner Island Ballpark. The Inland Empire 66ers scored three runs in the fifth inning and held the Ports to just five hits on their way to handing Stockton a 4-0 loss in the rubber game of a three-game series.
Stockton's best scoring chance of the afternoon came in the bottom of the third inning. With runners at second and third and one out, 66ers starter
Bertness would pick up his first win of the season, going five innings and allowing three hits while walking four and striking out five.
Ports starter
Dunshee suffered his first loss of the season, going 5.1 innings and allowing three runs on a career-high nine hits while walking two and striking out three.
Inland Empire's final run of the afternoon came on a leadoff home run in the eighth by
After going 3-4 on their seven-game homestand, the Ports embark on a seven-game road trip following an off-day on Monday as they open a three-game series with the Visalia Rawhide on Tuesday night.