Clay Hensley pitched seven solid innings as the Portland Beavers beat the Tacoma Rainiers 8-4 last night in a Pacific Coast League baseball game at Cheney Stadium.
TACOMA — Clay Hensley pitched seven solid innings as the Portland Beavers beat the Tacoma Rainiers 8-4 last night in a Pacific Coast League baseball game at Cheney Stadium.
Hensley (2-2) allowed two runs and four hits. Brad Baker got two outs in the ninth for his 27th save.
Cha Seung Baek (7-4) was the loser, yielding five runs in 2-2/3 innings.
Adam Hyzdu, Bobby Scales and Wilson Valdez each hit solo home runs for the Beavers (46-46), who had 12 hits.
Tacoma (50-41) got two hits each from Ramon Santiago and Yuniesky Betancourt, and Clint Nageotte was impressive in two scoreless innings of relief.
Yesterday’s Rainiers box
BEAVERS 8, RAINIERS 4
| Portland | AB | R | H | BI |
| Delucchi, cf | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Loretta, 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Barfield, 2b | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Knott, lf | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Hyzdu, rf | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Ojeda, c | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Furmaniak, 3b | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Scales, dh | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Sain, 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Valdez, ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals | 39 | 8 | 12 | 8 |
| Tacoma | AB | R | H | BI |
| Strong, cf | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Choo, lf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dobbs, 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Nunez, rf | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Brown, dh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Rifkin, 1b | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Christianson, c | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Santiago, 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
| Betancourt, ss | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Totals | 33 | 4 | 8 | 4 |
| Portland | 023 010 020 | — | 8 | 12 | 0 |
| Tacoma | 100 010 002 | — | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| Portland | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Hensley, W 2-2 | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| McLeary | 1.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Cassel | 0.1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Baker, S 27 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tacoma | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
| Baek, L 7-4 | 2.2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Bumstead | 2.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Nageotte | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Jimenez | 2.0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 |