SOUTH JORDAN, UT. - A middle-inning hit parade energized the Reno offense to a streak-snapping 8-5 victory on Thursday. All 13 runs in the contest were scored in the fourth and fifth innings, halting the Bees’ winning streak at five games.
Reno 8, Salt Lake 5
WP: Derek Law (1-0)
LP: Brett Kerry (4-8)
SV: Gerardo Carillo (5)
Key Performers
Nelson Rada: 2-5, HR, 2 RBI, R, K
Yolmer Sánchez: 3-4, 2B, R
Niko Kavadas: 2-4, 2B, 2B, R
Game Summary
It was a scoreless start to Thursday’s tussle, with just six hits combined in the opening three innings. Brett Kerry continued his scoreless stretch, spinning three solid frames tonight to increase his streak to 10 shutout innings.
Both offenses woke up in the fourth inning. Reno chucked the bases full with no outs to begin the top half and took advantage. The visitors cashed in and piled on, scoring six times to take a 6-0 advantage. Five hits, two walks, and an error led to the half dozen runs, capped with Pavin Smith’s two-run single.
In the home half, Salt Lake brought home four runs of their own to get the game to 6-4. Ben Gobbel and Logan Porter each drove in one, before Nelson Rada punctuated the scoring with a two-run blast, his third homer of the season, onto the berm in right field.
The bats stayed awake in the fifth, as the Aces showed off their power with back-to-back homers. Gavin Conticello and Christian Cerda delivered the longballs to right and left, respectively. An 8-4 game turned into a 8-5 score thanks to good situational hitting in the bottom half on Cade Marlowe’s RBI groundout.
Then, the bats were silenced. Neither side managed runs the rest of the way, with Reno sealing the deal by sitting down the final six Salt Lake hitters of the night. The Aces snapped their six-game losing streak and simultaneously ended the Bees’ stretch of five consecutive wins.
Game Notes
- Salt Lake snapped their season-high five game win streak in tonight’s defeat. The Bees are now 6-11 overall and 1-6 at home in three-run games.
- Thursdays have been the Bees’ bugaboo this season, going 4-14 in the campaign, the most losses of any day in 2026. Salt Lake is 3-6 at home on that day and 1-8 on the road. Two more defeats on the day of the week would match the most Thursday losses in franchise history (since 2005), going 5-16 in 2014.
- Salt Lake pushed their home run streak to six straight games, courtesy of Nelson Rada. The Bees have hit nine homers over this span, coming from eight different hitters. Additionally, Salt Lake reached double-digits in the hit column for the seventh consecutive time, managing 11 hits tonight.
- Niko Kavadas reached in his sixth straight game with a single in his first at-bat. The infielder has gotten on base safely in 44 of his 51 games with Salt Lake this season. Kavadas doubled to start the fifth, notching his sixth multi-hit effort in August; he scored on that time around the bases, marking consecutive games with a run.
- Ben Gobbel singled to extend his hit streak to four games. He later drove the Bees’ first run on an RBI groundout, his third straight contest with a RBI. Gobbel has eight RBI over that three game span.
- Nelson Rada marked his fifth straight game with a hit, notching an infield single. The outfielder holds an active nine-game on-base streak. Rada homered in the fourth, sending a curveball over the right field fence for his third longball of the season. It is Rada’s career high for single-season homers and is his first roundtripper since May 29 at Round Rock. The homer also allowed Rada to extend his run-scoring streak to four games, tallying six runs in that span. It also gives the outfielder his team-leading 34th multi-hit performance.
- A perfect bunt base-hit gave Pablo Reyes his 20th knock in August and fifth straight game with a hit. The infielder is batting .429 in the month with a 1.079 OPS. Reyes secured his fourth multi-hit effort in his last five games with another single.
- Gustavo Campero continued to swing a hot bat this month, singling to increase his hit streak to four games. He also notched his 20th hit in August on the base knock, ticking up his average to .377. Campero made it four straight games with a run scored, crossing home plate with the team’s first run tonight; he has six runs in that stretch.
- Yolmer Sánchez singled in the fourth to end an 0-for-11 slump. The shortstop later scored for the third time in his last four games, coming home on a sacrifice fly. Sánchez’s second single secured a multi-hit ledger, his third over the last five games.
- Logan Porter lifted a flyball into left, good enough for a sacrifice fly and the second Bees run of the night. Porter has three straight games with a RBI, a new season high.
- Cade Marlowe reached on a catcher’s interference, scoring on Nelson Rada’s home run. Marlowe has tallied a run in five straight games, matching his season high with Las Vegas (April 14-19). The right fielder has scored seven times in this current span. Marlowe grabbed an RBI in the fifth, his third straight game with a run driven in.
- Brett Kerry fired three scoreless innings to start his outing, rolling his shutout streak to 10 innings. However, the righty surrendered six runs on five hits in the fourth to bring the streak to an end. Kerry finished with five innings of work, his seventh straight Triple-A start to pitch into the fifth inning.
- In his 86th game of the season, Christian Moore drew his 73rd walk. The Tennessee alum extended his season-high on-base streak to 16 games, tying his stretch from May 30 to June 17 earlier this season. Moore has 17 free passes over his last 16 games.
- Jared Southard tallied his fourth straight scoreless appearance, tossing 2.1 innings out of the ‘pen tonight. The Texan has a 6.1 IP shutout streak, last yielding a run on August 8 vs. Oklahoma City. Southard had two strikeouts tonight, moving to 60 total in 2026.
- Rob Kaminsky posted consecutive outings with zero runs, firing a perfect 1-2-3 eighth. He has not allowed an earned run in six of his nine efforts in August.
- Reliever Kaleb Ort delivered his sixth consecutive scoreless outing, extending his shutout run to seven innings. Throughout August, the right-hander has registered an 0-1 record and a 2.45 ERA, collecting five strikeouts against two walks.
Up Next
The series moves into the weekend with Friday’s College Football Night. Salt Lake and Reno will kick off the evening at 6:35 p.m. MDT from The Ballpark at America First Square.