Juan Silva's RBI double with one out in the seventh inning tied the game and Kyle Waldrop added a sacrifice fly later in the inning that was the difference in the Bakersfield Blaze's 6-5 win over Inland Empire Monday night at Sam Lynn Ballpark.

It was the fifth straight win for Bakersfield, which has the California League's best record (24-8).

Kyle Waldrop of the Bakersfield Blaze doubled in the ninth inning and scored to break a tie on Marquez Smith's single in a 10-9 victory over the host Modesto Nuts at John Thurman Field.

Reliever Carlos Gonzalez (1-0) struck out the side in the 9th, securing the wild win and three-game series sweep for Bakersfield, which is five games up on second-place Visalia in the Californian League's North Division race.

GREELEY, Colo. -- Chance Gusbeth hit a three-run home runs in the seventh and eighth innings and Soloman Williams also homered twice to power Cal State Bakersfield to a 19-7 Western Athletic Conference baseball win over Northern Colorado.

The Roadrunners (19-26 overall, 11-9 WAC) finished with 21 hits, the second-most in a game in the program's six-season history.

Ben Lively kept his unbeaten record intact Friday as the Bakersfield Blaze held on for an 8-6 victory over the Modesto Nuts in a California League baseball game at John Thurman Field.

Lively's scoreless streak ended at 31 innings when he allowed two seventh-inning runs. In 6-2/3 innings, he struck out eight and walked just one in running his record to 6-0. He left the game with a 6-2 lead before Modesto (9-20) rallied with two runs in each of the seventh and eighth innings.

Juan Silva hit a three-run home run in the third inning and the Blaze's three pitchers made that hold up in a 3-1 win over the Stockton Ports Thursday night at Sam Lynn Ballpark.

Zach Vincej singled and Jon Matthews walked before Silva drove his second homer of the season over the centerfield wall.

Stockton scored the tie-breaking run in the top of the ninth inning Wednesday and beat the Bakersfield Blaze 5-4 at Sam Lynn Ballpark.

Chad Pinder led off the Ports' ninth with a single.

Juan Silva homered to leadoff the ninth inning to lift the Bakersfield Blaze to a 8-7 victory over the Stockton Ports on Tuesday night at Sam Lynn Ballpark.

It was the first home run of the season for Silva, who finished the night 2 for 5 with two RBIs.

Marquez Smith hit two homers, including a three-run shot in the first inning to give Bakersfield a lead it would never relinquish, helping the Blaze to a 6-2 win over the Stockton Ports on Monday.

Smith also hit a solo homer in the seventh inning. Kyle Waldrop, who leads the league in batting average at .389, went 1 for 3 with a solo home run in the fifth inning.

SAN JOSE -- Ben Lively pitched six scoreless innings and kept his perfect record intact as the Bakersfield Blaze beat the San Jose Giants 10-2 Saturday in at Municipal Stadium.

Lively (5-0) allowed five hits, struck out seven and did not walk a batter. He has allowed only one earned run in his 29 innings pitched this season. The Blaze (17-7), which put the game away with a six-run eighth inning, begins a four-game home-stand tonight at 7 against the Stockton Ports.

SAN JOSE -- Ryan Wright ripped a two-run double in the 11th inning and Seth Mejias-Brean followed with an RBI single to lead the Bakersfield Blaze to a 6-3 victory over the San Jose Giants at Municipal Stadium.

The Blaze's Ryan Benedetto began the 11th with a single to right. Juan Silva then bunted right to relief pitcher Ryan Bradley (0-2), who spun and fired wildly into center field, putting runners at second and third with no outs, setting the table for Wright.

Matt Smith, a 6-foot-5, 185-pound forward from Columbia State (Community) College in Tennessee, signed a letter of intent to play basketball at Cal State Bakersfield.

Smith played his freshman year at Mississippi Valley State, where he averaged 10.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.4 blocks per game. He scored four points with seven rebounds in 26 minutes against CSUB in Dec. 2012.

MODESTO -- Jesse Winker went 4-for-4 with a three-run home run to highlight a 13-hit attack that led the Bakersfield Blaze to a 7-0 California League shut-out win over the Modesto Nuts Wednesday night.

Winker added two doubles and finished with four RBIs.