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Fresno 5, Sacramento 4
Friday August 15, 2003FRESNO, Calif. (AP) Noah Lowry held the Sacramento River Cats scoreless for seven innings in his Triple-A debut Thursday, and the Fresno Grizzlies won, 5-4, in 10 innings.
The 22-year-old left-hander gave up five hits and two earned runs in 7 2/3 innings, walking three and striking out three.
In the eighth, he got the first batter to fly out, but Mike Rose doubled and scored on Jose Flores' single. Flores then scored on Chris Prieto's ground-rule double that bounced into the right-field stands.
In the bottom of the inning, Todd Linden hit a two-out, run-scoring double in the bottom of the eighth to tie it. Francisco Santos drove in the go-ahead run with a triple down the right-field line.
With Grizzlies reliever Matt Montgomery on the mound in the ninth, Sacramento's Graham Koonce reached base on a walk. Mike Edwards next blasted a homer off Grizzlies reliever Matt Montgomery to tie it again.
The Grizzlies committed two errors in the top of the 10th, but closer Luis Estrella got out of the jam. Santos got the game-winning hit in the bottom of the 10th. His single drove in Alberto Castillo, who reached on a walk, advanced on a sacrifice, and made it to third on a wild pitch.
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