MWL1 Burlington Bees

Bandits Beat Bees 4-1

August 24, 2013 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Burlington Bees News Release


The Quad Cities River Bandits left 14 men on base and went 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position, but kept the Bees quiet in a 4-1 victory on Saturday night at Community Field.

Quad Cities (74-55, 36-24) came into Saturday's contest with a magic number of three to clinch a playoff spot, and the Bandits moved that number to one with a win over Burlington (51-75, 25-36).

Pat Lowery (4-9) drew the start for the Bees and picked up the first two outs in the first very quickly on a ground out and strikeout, but Carlos Correa walked, Danry Vasquez singled and Bobby Borchering brought home Correa with a single to give the Bandits an early 1-0 lead.

Angel Rosa answered right back for the Bees, crushing a two-out home run over the left field to tie the game at one apiece. Brian Holmes (5-3) cruised from there, tossing six innings of one-run ball.

The back and forth continued in the second inning, as Austin Elkins led off the inning with a triple and scored the Bandits' second run when a ground ball hit by Roberto Pena went through the legs of Garrett Cannizaro. Jordan Scott followed with a single, but Lowery got the next three outs without giving up another run.

Lowery was not as lucky in the third inning, surrendering a single, double, two walks and a hit-by-pitch, which chased him from the game after 2 1/3 innings. Lowery allowed two runs to come home and left with the bases loaded and one out. Daniel Hurtado got Tony Kemp to fly out and Teoscar Hernandez to strike out for the third time in as many innings.

Hurtado cruised through his first 3 2/3 innings before loading the bases with no outs in the seventh. Eswarlin Jimenez entered and kept the Bandits scoreless on a pop out, fly out and ground out.

Mitchell Lambson (S, 1) twirled three hitless innings with six strikeouts to earn his first save of the season.

Burlington and Quad Cities will meet for the second game of the four-game series on Sunday afternoon when 2013 #1 overall pick Mark Appel will take the ball for the Bandits and the Angels July MiLB pitcher of the month, Tyler DeLoach, will be on the bump for the Bees.

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