In what seems almost an echo of Thursday night’s line score, the 51s pitchers gave up a run in the first and then nothing until the late innings in the second game of their series against the Reno Aces. This time it was Matthew Bowman on the mound, pitching well for his second straight start. Bowman allowed a first inning triple to Reno shortstop Mike Freeman, who then scored on a sacrifice fly. He shut the Aces down from there, giving up just one more hit over 5 innings to earn the win, improving to 2-3 on the season. Lefty reliever Duane Below followed Bowman and pitched 2.1 innings scoreless relief, leaving with a runner on third and one out in the top of the 8th. Righty Chase Bradford came on to coax pinch hitter Matt Pagnozzi to ground into an inning ending double play.

A Matt Reynolds double got the 51s offense going in the bottom the first. He came home on a single by left fielder Alex Castellanos. That tied the game. In the second Vegas capitalized on 2 Reno errors around a couple of hits by catcher Johnny Monell and second baseman Wilfredo Tovar, plating 2 more runs. Reynolds doubled again in the third, just missing a home run as the ball bounced off the top of the right field wall and came back onto the field, but he was stranded.

Cory Vaughn celebrated his birthday by going 3-4. He’s 5-6 over the last two games. Monell also had 3 hits on the night and drove in the 4th and decisive run in the bottom of the 8th.

Newly promoted from Binghamton, reliever Jon Velasquez started the 9th and gave up a one-out single to Danny Worth. After a ground out, pinch hitter Garrett Weber hit a home run to right center, but Velasquez struck out second baseman Jamie Romak to survive the shaky inning and earn the save.