There were encouraging signs throughout the lineup for the Las Vegas 51s, who used an offensive outburst in the fifth inning to overcome the Albuquerque Isotopes for the third straight night on Friday.
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With a 6-4 win over Albuquerque on Thursday night at Isotopes Park, Las Vegas has now won two straight games for the second time this season.
Boston approved a plan Thursday to change the name of Yawkey Way, the street outside Fenway Park named in honor of a former Red Sox owner some have said was racist.
Though the final score doesn’t reflect it, the Las Vegas 51s and Albuquerque Isotopes were tangled in a pitchers’ duel for much of Wednesday’s game.
Coronado smacked 16 hits and rolled to a 12-2, six-inning win over visiting Foothill, avenging a 2-1 loss to the Falcons earlier in the season.
Chris Flexen went 3-6 with a 7.88 ERA in 14 games, nine of them starts, last season with the New York Mets. And while the season didn’t exactly go how he wanted, the time was a valuable learning experience.
In Pfeifer’s last nine games, he’s 20-for-30 with 11 home runs, four doubles, a triple and 30 RBIs. He’s homered in eight straight games, andis also 3-1 as a pitcher — allowing five earned runs and 17 hits in 22 innings while striking out 26.
Cubs manager Joe Maddon said before Tuesday night’s game that the 2016 National League MVP has a cut above his left eye but no concussion.
Las Vegas 51s starter Jason Vargas accomplished everything he wanted to Monday night in Las Vegas in what is expected to be his first and only rehab start with the team.
Cole Schaefer came on with the bases loaded and one out and his team clinging to a one-run lead in the sixth, but he induced an inning-ending double play, and top-ranked Desert Oasis held on to beat visiting Bishop Gorman, 9-8.
More than 150 dogs joined their owners on the outfield berms, so perhaps it was fitting that on the field, the El Paso Chihuahuas came out on top, beating Las Vegas 9-6 in the second of the three-game set.
The 51s have had to patch together a rotation recently after one starter was released and one was called up.
The 51s have had little success against El Paso early this season and Saturday wasn’t much different as they dropped their seventh game of 10 to the Chihuahuas on Saturday night at Cashman Field, a 13-4 defeat.
A’s lefty Sean Manaea pitched the first no-hitter against Boston in 25 years, with an overturned call preserving the gem Saturday night in Oakland’s 3-0 win over the sizzling Red Sox.
Layton Walls pitched the distance and struck out six to lead Rancho’s baseball team to a 5-1 home victory over Coronado on Saturday.
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