Benua’s Blast, Reynoso’s Stellar Start Steer Rawhide past Quakes

Visalia, CA – Alexander Benua hit a go-ahead home run in the eighth inning and Erick Reynoso tossed six shutout frames as the Visalia Rawhide defeated the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 3-2 on Sunday afternoon at Valley Strong Ballpark.

Visalia (43-38, 8-7) wins the three game weekend series over Rancho Cucamonga (47-34, 6-9).

Benua hit his second home run of the week, launching a solo blast over the left field wall with two outs in the eighth inning.

Erick Reynoso turned in his best start of his career tossing six scoreless innings with just one hit allowed on eight strikeouts.

His only hit allowed came on an infield single in the fifth. Reynoso struck out seven of the first nine batters he faced. The right hander from the Dominican Republic has worked back to back quality outings and improves his stats to a 2.88 ERA in 13 appearances.

Visalia plated two runs in the sixth courtesy of three walks, a HBP and an RBI infield single by Benua.

Rancho Cucamonga answered with two runs in the top of the eighth frame.

Jake Fitzgibbons entered in the ninth and pitched a perfect frame to earn his fourth save of the season. The Tennessee product has thrown 21.2 straight scoreless innings over a California League best 16 appearances dating back to May 8th.

Abdias De La Cruz and JD Dix both totaled two hits for Visalia. Dix has 11 hits in his first six starts with the Rawhide.

The Rawhide continue a nine game homestand facing the Lake Elsinore Storm in a six game series starting Tuesday at Valley Strong Ballpark. The series opener is a TWO’s-Day sponsored by Modelo & Pacifico with two street tacos for $6.25, Modelo & Pacifico draft or tall cans for $7.25 and $2 tickets to the 4Creeks Pasture.

Tickets for all upcoming Rawhide games can be purchased on the team’s website or at the Rawhide Ticket Office sponsored by Kaweah Health starting at 10 AM on weekdays.

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The Visalia Rawhide are a professional baseball team and the Single-A Affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rawhide are celebrating 80 years of professional baseball in Visalia in 2025 as the “Year of the Oak.”  

Stay up to date with the Rawhide on the team’s website and by following the Rawhide on Facebook, X, Instagram and Tik Tok. The Rawhide play all home games at Valley Strong Ballpark located at 300 N Giddings Street Visalia, CA 93291.

Fans can purchase season ticket packages, group packages, single game tickets and team merchandise through the Rawhide website and at the stadium ticket office sponsored by Kaweah Health. All Rawhide games can be watched on MiLB.TV with a free radio broadcast also available online. For more information, visit milb.com/visalia, email [email protected] or call (559) 732-4433.