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Bandits' 5-Run 5th Earns Record-Setting Win

June 20, 2015 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release


DAVENPORT, Iowa - Quad Cities River Bandits first baseman Ryan Bottger hit a go-ahead solo home run on the first pitch of the fifth inning, in which his team scored five runs to break a 3-3 tie and go on to an 8-3 victory - the club's Midwest League-best 44th of the season - in front of 6,668 at Modern Woodmen Park Friday night.

With their first three-game winning streak in exactly one month, the River Bandits (44-22) achieved their highest first-half win total since at least 1987, and their most wins in any half since winning 48 in the second half of the 1992 season.

The Bees (34-33) began Friday with the upper hand, as All-Star shortstop Jake Yacinich singled to right field on the first pitch of the game from right-hander Christian Powell. Center fielder Michael Hermosillo walked, and All-Star second baseman Andrew Daniel flied out to right field, which sent Yacinich to third base. With All-Star right fielder Natanael Delgado batting, Hermosillo stole second base, and with catcher Jamie Ritchie's throw to second base, Yacinich stole home plate for the game's first run. Burlington added a run in the second inning, when catcher Wade Wass singled to right field, went to second base on an error by third baseman Luis Reynoso and scored on left fielder Trevor Gretzky's double down the right-field line. Powell then struck out Yacinich and Hermosillo to strand two runners in scoring position and only allowed Delgado's third-inning, one-out double the rest of his outing. Powell finished four innings, allowing two earned runs on four hits and one walk with three strikeouts.

Trailing 2-0, the River Bandits began scoring against right-hander Keynan Middleton in the bottom of the second inning, when center fielder Ramon Laureano began his three-hit, three-run night with a single to left field and scored on shortstop Thomas Lindauer's RBI double to left-center field to cut the deficit to 2-1. In the bottom of the third inning, left fielder Jason Martin hit a one-out single to left field, went to second base on Wass' passed ball and scored on Bottger's RBI double down the right-field line. In the fourth inning, Quad Cities took its first lead, as Laureano and second baseman Alex Hernandez hit consecutive singles to center field, Lindauer put down a sacrifice and Middleton's wild pitch scored Laureano for the go-ahead run. Middleton departed after allowing three earned runs on six hits and three walks with four strikeouts in 3 1/3 innings. Left-hander Jonah Wesely (4-2) retired the final two batters of the fourth inning.

With a 3-2 lead, River Bandits right-hander Eric Peterson (3-3) began the fifth inning and allowed a leadoff single to Yacinich, who went to second base on Hermosillo's groundout and scored when Bottger missed Lindauer's throw on a ground ball by Daniel. Delgado reached on an infield single to Reynoso, but Peterson got third baseman Zach Houchins to ground into an inning-ending double play. Peterson then retired six of seven batters in the next two innings, only allowing a two-out walk in the seventh inning.

In a 3-3 tie, Wesely allowed his first home run of the season when Bottger went deep to the Built Ford Tough Deck in right field for an opposite-field home run - his fourth of the season. Two batters later, Laureano hit a one-out single to left-center field. Hernandez followed with an RBI double deep to left field, before Lindauer reached when Delgado dropped a fly ball in right field. Reynoso hit an RBI single to right field that scored Hernandez, and when catcher Jamie Ritchie grounded to Houchins, the throw to home plate was dropped by Wass, allowing Lindauer to score. Martin added an RBI single to left field, capping the five-run rally against Wesely, who was charged with five runs - three earned - in one inning. With an 8-3 lead, Peterson worked through the seventh inning, and right-hander Ryan Thompson tossed two hitless frames in the eighth inning to finish Quad Cities' first win in its last five series openers.

Quad Cities continues its series with Burlington at 6 p.m. Saturday at Modern Woodmen Park. River Bandits right-hander Francis Martes (1-1) is scheduled to face Bees right-hander Austin Robichaux (5-2).

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