Lake Elsinore Storm Tops Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 9-5 - Advanced A, California League

MLN - THE RAW FEED - www.mlntherawfeed.com - RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Lake Elsinore got in the run column first in Saturday night’s game as they plated four runs against Quakes starter Tommy Mendoza. After two walks and an error allowed a run to score, there was a sacrifice fly by Javis Diaz and two two-out RBI singles by Cedric Hunter and Eric Sogard.

The Quakes answered with a single run of their own in the second inning on a Mark Trumbo solo home run to cut the deficit to 4-1.

The Storm got a solo home run in the 3^rd with two outs by Brian Joynt to take a 5-1 lead.

Rancho plated three runs to cut the Storm lead to just one run in the 3^rd getting an RBI double by Ryan Mount and Mark Trumbo’s second home run of the day, a two-run shot to trail 5-4.

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Lake Elsinore got a couple more two-out runs in the fourth as Eric Sogard hit his 4^th home run of the year off of Mendoza to give the Storm a 7-3 edge.

Mark Trumbo and the Quakes came back again with a run in the 5^th on Trumbo’s RBI single to score Abel Nieves to cut it to a 7-5 score. Trumbo was 4 for 4 with two home runs and four runs batted in.

The Storm struck again with two outs in the 6^th inning against reliever Brian Chambers with two two-out RBI singles by Mitch Canham and Brian Joynt to take a 9-5 lead.

Rancho’s offense managed just two hits after the fifth inning to fall for the second straight game.

The Quakes and Storm will hook up for game two of this three game series Sunday at 5:05pm with Alexander Torres making his Quakes debut against right hander Rolando Valdez of Lake Elsinore.

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