MWL1 Peoria Chiefs

Chiefs Fall 3-2 Thursday on 7th Inning Homer

Published on May 31, 2012 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release


Burlington, IA - The Peoria Chiefs allowed a solo homer in the top of the seventh inning and lost to the Burlington Bees 3-2 on Thursday night in the second game of a three game series. The loss, their fifth in six games, drops the Chiefs to 23-31 on the season with four games left on the roadtrip

The Bees got on the board against Gerardo Concepcion in the second inning with a two-out rally. Eliezer Mesa singled to left and moved to second on a balk by Concepcion. Ryan Pineda capitalized with a single to center to score Mesa for a 1-0 Burlington lead.

Burlington doubled their lead without a hit in the fifth inning. Concepcion issued back-to-back walks to John Nester and Sean Jamieson to start the inning. Bobby Crocker sacrificed to move both runners into scoring position before B.A. Vollmuth delivered a sac fly to right for a 2-0 lead.

The Chiefs did not get a hit against Drew Granier in the first five innings. Zeke DeVoss led off the sixth with a single to right and moved to second as Taiwan Easterling singled to left. Both runners moved up 90 feet on a Wes Darvill sacrifice bunt. With two outs Yasiel Balaguert muscled a broken-bat single into right-center to score both runners and tie the game at 2-2.

Austin Reed took over for Concepcion in the seventh and with one out Sean Jamieson connected on a solo homer to left. The leadoff batters third homer of the season gave the Bees a 3-2 lead.

Concepcion allowed two runs on four hits over six innings. He struck out four and walked four in his second quality start of the season. Reed (2-4) allowed one run on three hits over two innings of work with one strikeout.

Casey's General Store Player of the Game - Zeke DeVoss (2B) - The Chiefs leadoff man was on base four times Thursday night and scored one of the two runs. He was hit by a pitch in the first, walked in the third and seventh and singled in the sixth. DeVoss leads the Chiefs with 28 walks and 32 ruins scored.

Notes: DeVoss has been hit by nine pitches this season which leads the Chiefs and is tied for the Midwest League leadConcepcion leads the MWL in balks with fourThe two RBI for Balaguert mark a career high and his first multi-RBI gameConcepcion has gone six innings twice, both against BurlingtonThe Chiefs went 13-16 in May with a MWL-low four homers and 51 errors committed which led to 42 unearned runsPeoria is now 7-12 in one-run games and 11-25 when scoring four runs or lessThe Chiefs have scored four runs in 10 straight gamesThe Chiefs did not commit an error in a road game for the first time since April 29 in Fort Wayne, a span of 15 games with at least one miscuePeoria is now 0-2 playing on manager Casey Kopitzke's birthday with an 8-4 loss last year and a rainout in 2010The Chiefs own the all-time series against Burlington 226-175 with one tieThe 226 regular season wins mark the most for the Chiefs against any MWL opponent and they lead the 2012 season series 4-2The series concludes Friday night at 6:30...Peoria will send RH Michael Jensen (4-2, 2.77) to the mound against Bees LH Brent Powers (1-3, 6.08)The broadcast can be heard, starting with the pre-game show at 6:15 p.m. on www.peoriachiefs.com/listenlive which also has downloads for a free app on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.

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