MWL1 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

Winning Streak Ends in Extra Innings

Published on June 28, 2010 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release


GRAND CHUTE, WI - The five-game winning streak of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers ended in gut-wrenching fashion on Monday night. The Quad Cities River Bandits beat the Rattlers 7-6 in 14 innings at Time Warner Cable Field. The final inning featured a triple and a wild pitch to score the go-ahead run Quad Cities and a Timber Rattlers runner thrown out at the plate.

Quad Cities (43-30 overall, 3-1 second half) jumped on Timber Rattlers starting pitcher Nick Bucci right away in the first inning. Bucci walked Michael Swinson to start the inning. Devin Goodwin drove in Swinson with a single. Bucci would walk the next two batters to load the bases. One out later, Robert Stock singled to knock in a pair of runs for a 3-0 lead.

Wisconsin (29-43, 3-1) answered in the bottom of the second inning. Khris Davis walked to start the inning and scored on a double by Hunter Morris. Cameron Garfield drove in Morris later in the inning with a sacrifice fly.

The River Bandits made the score 4-2 in the top of the fourth inning. CJ Beatty doubled in a run to knock Bucci out of the game.

The Rattlers loaded the bases with no outs in the bottom of the fourth inning. They managed a run when Michael Marseco grounded into a 6-4-3 double play.

Kentrail Davis put Wisconsin in front for the first time in the game with a two-run homer in the bottom of the fifth. The homer, the first for Davis as a professional, was a line shot to right-center that landed on the beach seating area and gave the Rattlers a 5-4 lead.

A two-out RBI single by Stock in the top of the seventh tied the game for a moment.

Khris Davis, who had been named the Midwest League Batter of the Week earlier in the day, stepped to the plate in the bottom of the seventh. He lifted a high fly ball to left field. The ball had enough to clear the fence for a 6-5 Wisconsin lead. The home run was the eleventh of the season for Khris Davis and his third in four games during the second half of the season.

But, the Bandits came back to tie the game in the top of the eighth. Swinson singled with two outs against Caleb Thielbar. Goodwin was next and he tripled off the wall in left-center to send Swinson home to even the score 6-6.

Both teams had chances to take the lead before the fourteenth. Wisconsin loaded the bases with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, but could not score. Quad Cities got a leadoff triple from Jason Stidham in the top of the eleventh, but Rattlers reliever Jon Pokorny got out of the frame with the game still tied.

Quad Cities took the lead in the top of the fourteenth against Matt Costello. After retiring the first two batters, Frederick Parejo tripled to right. That brought pinch hitter Edgar Lara to the plate. Costello struck out Lara on a 2-2 pitch in the dirt. But, the ball got past catcher Cameron Garfield and all the way to the backstop. Lara reached first and Parejo scored on the wild pitch.

Khris Davis doubled with one out in the bottom of the fourteenth off River Bandits closer Aaron Terry. Morris followed with a single to right. Davis headed home with the tying run, but Parejo's throw to the plate was in plenty of time to cut down Davis. Terry recorded the final out with a strikeout, the eighteenth of the game by River Bandits pitching.

Wisconsin is 0-8 in extra inning games this season. They also fall to 3-20 in games decided by a single run.

Monday was the shortest game of the week for the River Bandits. Quad Cities played sixteen innings on Sunday night at home in a 4-3 win over the Kane County Cougars.

The series continues on Tuesday night. It's the first Bang for Your Buck Night of the second half with soda, hotdogs, and Miller Beer are available for $1. Additionally, it is a KRAFT Singles Tuesday Night Tickets. Fans who bring in a KRAFT Singles package wrapper and purchase one reserved seat will receive a second reserved seat free.

Maverick Lasker (5-3, 3.21) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Rattlers. The Bandits have Joe Kelly (3-5, 3.46) as their scheduled starter. Game time is 7:05pm.

If you can't make it out to the game, you may tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or on timberrattlers.com. The Miller Lite Pregame show starts at 6:45pm.

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