Rattlers tip TinCaps 5-2
July 27, 2014 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release
FORT WAYNE, IN - The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers got seven doubles from the offense and 14 strikeouts from a pair of pitchers to defeat the Fort Wayne TinCaps 5-2 Sunday at Parkview Field. Chad Thompson struck out six in five innings and earned the win. Taylor Williams struck out eight over four innings for the save.
Chris McFarland singled with one out in the top of the first inning to move his current hitting streak to eleven games, the longest hitting streak by a Rattler this season. Clint Coulter was hit by a pitch, the eighteenth time he's been hit this season, with two outs to extend the inning. Taylor Brennan dropped a single into center to get McFarland home with the first run of the game.
Fort Wayne (44-60 overall, 14-21 second half) tied the game with an unearned run in the bottom of the third. Thompson walked Ronnie Richardson to start the inning. An errant pickoff throw by Thompson allowed Richardson to take second. Richardson went to third on a weak ground out to the mound and scored on a wild pitch by Thompson.
Wisconsin (55-49, 19-16) went back in front in the top of the fourth inning. Brennan drew his league leading 68th walk of the season with one out and Omar Garcia followed with a double to put runners on the corners. Rafael Neda drove in Brennan with a grounder to short.
Jose Pena started the Rattlers fifth inning with a single and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Dustin DeMuth. Michael Ratterree drove a 3-2 pitch to the wall in left for a two out double to score Pena.
Wisconsin tacked on four more doubles and two more runs with single tallies in the sixth and seventh innings. In the sixth, Angel Ortega doubled with two outs. Jose Pena was next and he doubled to drive in Ortega. In the seventh, Ratterree doubled off the top of the wall in left-center with one out. Coulter followed with a double, his second of the game, to knock in Ratterree and the Rattlers were up 5-1.
Williams took over on the mound for Thompson to start the sixth inning and struck out the side in order. The TinCaps did score an unearned run off Williams in the seventh inning, but Williams tossed a scoreless eighth and a scoreless ninth to close out Fort Wayne.
In his last two outings, Williams has struck out seventeen in 10-2/3 innings.
The final game of the series - and of Wisconsin's road trip - is Monday night at Parkview Field. Preston Gainey (3-6, 3.93) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Jimmi Brasoban (1-4, 8.40) is set to start for the TinCaps. Game time is 6:05pm CDT. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or IHeartRadio starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 5:45pm CDT.
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