Rivercats and the 51s

On Saturday the Cats were rained out. Sunday's day game had a bit of light rain and our usual group was not there, except me. The team won 6-4. It was a fun game.

Last night the Rivercats had a good outing. They started off strong with homers in the first and second JJ Furmaniak and Kurt Suzuki scored the round trips. But they then went into a real slump and for the next 8 innings were hitless. That is not entirely true the Las Vegas pitchers seemed to have a penchant for hitting our batters. Dan Johnson, who is on a rehab assignment with his old team, missed a shot by ducking. Hiram Bocachica was not so lucky and actually had to be pulled from the game. What held us together was the pitching - Colby Lewis went six innnings and had a dozen strikeouts, Ron Flores added one and Conner Robertson added two for a total of 15. As impressive was the strike count - Lewis threw 66 strikes for 99 pitches, Casilla 6 for 9 (although he was not that impressive last night), Flores 20 of 33 and Robertson 9 of 10.

In the bottom of the 10th Lloyd Turner got on base and then stole second. That was all he needed when Tony Abreu blew a hit by Brian Stavitsky, Turner made it home to win the game.

For some reason the Las Vegas team seems to always have a good selection of fans at our games and this one was no exception. In our section there must have been twenty or thirty near us. Sacramento uses a couple of rows in front of us as visiting player family seats and that often makes for an interesting game.