Both the Quakes and 66ers returned home on Friday to open their final seven-game homestands of the season.
The Quakes came up short to San Jose, losing 9-4.
Meanwhile, the 66ers downed High Desert 2-1 in 12 innings.
Both the Quakes and 66ers played one-run games on Wednesday.
The Quakes pulled out a 7-6 victory in the ninth inning against Stockton, while the 66ers fell 5-4 at Lake Elsinore. The win was the fourth in a row for the Quakes.
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C.J. Cron’s two-run homer in the 7th gave the Sixers the lead for good and they held off visiting Lake Elsinore 8-6 on Thursday.
The Sixers had trailed 4-1 after four innings, but rallied and Cron’s 21st homer gave the Sixers a 6-5 lead.
Both Quakes and 66ers fell on Wednesday. The Quakes lost 3-2 at Modesto, while the Sixers fell at home to Lake Elsinore 6-3.
The Quakes loss was especially excruciating. Trailing 2-0 entering the ninth, they rallied to tie the score on Austin Gallagher’s two-run single. But in the bottom of the ninth, Joey Wong’s single with two outs scored Juan Crousset from second base to lift the Nuts to victory.
The 66ers got off to a quick start, scoring 13 runs in the first 3 innings en route to a 15-1 blasting of host Lancaster on Friday night. C.J. Cron hit a grand slam (his 19th) and a two-run double, giving him a minor league-leading 101 RBIs this season. he leads the rest of pro baseball by seven.
Drew Heid (4th), Taylor Lindsey (6th) and Randal Grichuk (12th) also homered for the Sixers. Max Russell won for the first time in more than a month, giving up one run in five innings. The Sixers scored at least 10 runs for the 4th time in 5 games. Every Sixer had a hit and scored a run and only Kaleb Cowart failed to drive one in.
Infielder Jean Segura and pitchers Johnny Hellweg and Ariel Pena, all of whom played for the 66ers in 2011, were dealt on Friday to the Milwaukee Brewers for current all-star and 2009 Cy Young pitcher Zack Greinke. Greinke is 9-4 with a 3.44 ERA this season.
Each of the trio had outstanding 2011 seasons for the Sixers.
C.J. Cron’s dramatic grand slam with one out in the bottom of the 11th capped a rally from a 6-3 deficit at the 66ers downed the Quakes 10-6 before 6,376 on Loma Linda Night at San Manuel Stadium.
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Andre Ethier completed his 2-game rehab assignment with the Quakes on Thursday, going 0 for 2 with a walk, a double play and an RBI groundout.
He was fine, said he felt good and was ready to return to the Dodgers from the strained oblique muscle.
But the Quakes may have suffered another injury. Starting catcher Chris O’Brien pulled his hamstring while running the bases in the third inning. Backup catcher Steve Domecus came in and doubled and scored later in the game in the Quakes’ 5-4 loss to the 66ers before 4,828 at the Epicenter.
The Quakes were coming off a three-game sweep at San Jose. The Sixers were coming off getting swept in a three-game series at home by Visalia by a combined score of 28-4.
Tuesday’s off-day apparently came at a good time for the Sixers and a bad time for the Quakes.
The Sixers got good pitching and power hitting and routed Andre Ethier and the Quakes 7-0 before 2,684 at the Epicenter on Wednesday.
The excitement of Matt Kemp at San Manuel Stadium didn’t carry over to Saturday’s series-opener against Visalia.
With no promotion for the fans in attendance, only 2,035 showed up for Saturday’s game and the 66ers were routed, 9-2 in a game in which they trailed 9-0 after the seventh inning.
Left fielder Ryan Jones crashed hard into the wall trying to make a sliding catch of a foul ball in the third inning. The wall is padded, but Jones slid low and his knee hit the concrete wall underneath the padding.
“It was a great attempt,” Haselman said.
Jones limped off the field and came out of the game. It appeared to be just a bruise of the knee, the same injury that has catcher Jett Bandy on the disabled list. But Haselman didn’t think the injury would force Jones to the disabled list.
“It doesn’t look as bad as Jett’s,” he said.
