Las Vegas had their last game of the first half on Saturday when they extended their win streak to 6 games with a 5-4 win over Salt Lake. They finished the first half going 53-38 good for a 8-game lead in the Pacific Coast League Pacific Southern division. Vic Black picked up the win of Saturday but it wasn’t all gold stars after getting a 1-2-3 3rd inning he was brought out for a...
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Las Vegas (50-38) 6, Salt Lake 4 Game One Luis Cessa made his 2nd start for Las Vegas and it went much better allowing only two unearned runs on six hits, zero walks, and six strikeouts in 5.2 innings. Cessa was in the 93-96 MPH range all night with his fastball and was still hitting 96 in his last inning of work. Chase Bradford followed Cessa letting both inherited runners score then let...
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Las Vegas (49-38) 10, Salt Lake 5 The Las Vegas offense was an extra base hit machine producing nine of them on the night incuding two doubles a piece by Dilson Herrera, Cory Vaughn, and Dan Rohlfing. Travis Taijeron had two extra base hits as well, his 11th double and 15th homerun of the season. Unfortunately Rainy Lara did not stick around long enough to pick up his first AAA win in five...
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Dominic Smith had a dreadful start to his season hitting .220/.256/.244 with one extra base hit and nine strikeouts in the month of April while also missing time with a leg injury. Smith started to swing the bat much better in the month of May hitting .276/.321/.429 with 13 doubles, 23 RBI, and his first homerun of the year. When the calendar switched to June Dominics’ bat caught...
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Albuquerque 3, Las Vegas (47-38) 0 Game One The 51’s offense was limited to three hits by Rockies pitching prospect Jon Gray and former Colorado Rockie Rex Brothers who picked up the save. Matthew Bowman was the tough luck loser moving his record to 5-10 on the year. Bowman pitched a complete game going 7 innings allowing three runs (two earned) on seven hits, one walk, and struck...
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