Bandits drop third straight
Published on July 2, 2008 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release
Cardinals' first-rounder Brett Wallace made his professional debut on Wednesday night at Modern Woodmen Park, but the 13th overall pick in the 2008 draft could not save the Quad Cities River Bandits, who sat through a 1 hour and 22 minute rain delay before dropping their third straight game in a 9-3 loss to the Cedar Rapids Kernels.
Wallace went 0-for-2 with two walks in his first game as a pro, while Quad Cities (6-8, 39-39) managed just one hit and watched their overall record fall back to the .500 mark. Cedar Rapids (10-4, 42-40) carried a combined no-hitter into the eighth inning, when Pete Kozma sliced a base hit to right field for the Bandits' only knock of the game.
Four Kernels pitchers combined on the one-hitter, though they also issued six walks, hit two batters, and allowed three runs, two of which were earned. Robert Fish got it started with one hitless inning, walking three and allowing all of the runs before the rain delay prematurely ended his night. Sammy Leon (2-1) took the mound after the delay and twirled four hitless frames out of the bullpen to earn the win. Ysmael Carmona then worked two hitless innings to take the no-no through seven frames, before Kozma's single off Tom Kiely led off the eighth and finally got Quad Cities into the "hits" column.
Meanwhile, the Kernels hopped out to an early lead in the top of the second inning. Jay Brossman led off the frame with a solo homer to left and Cedar Rapids followed with three consecutive singles that loaded the bases. Two more runs crossed the plate on consecutive groundouts before Ryan Groth dropped a flare single into right, driving home another run on to stretch the Kernels' lead to 4-0.
The rain began to fall as Quad Cities came to the plate in the bottom of the second. Nick Peoples was hit by a pitch to open the inning and back-to-back walks to Tommy Pham and Paul Vazquez loaded the bases with nobody out. But as the downpour worsened, the game was put into a rain delay before Ross Oeder could step to the plate.
The stoppage in play lasted nearly an hour and a half before the River Bandits resumed their rally. Oeder hit a bouncing ball towards third that Jerry Gonzalez picked up cleanly, but his throw to second base sailed into right field and allowed two runs to score. With men at the corners D'Marcus Ingram sent a ball into left field that was caught by Groth, but the liner was deep enough for Vazquez to tag up and cross the plate as Quad Cities pulled to within 4-3.
At that point the momentum seemed to be in the River Bandits' corner. Reliever Chuckie Fick took the mound following Quad Cities' second-inning rally and proceeded to retire the first 10 batters he faced in order.
But in the top of the sixth, it took the Kernels just four pitches to recapture control of the game. There was one out in the inning when Brossman poked a double into the right field corner, and two pitches later Clay Fuller drove a triple into the gap in right-center. On the very next offering, Julio Perez clubbed a double off the wall in left, knocking home the second run of the inning for a 6-3 lead.
Cedar Rapids built on the lead from there. Perez added a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning before Hector Estrella's two-run single provided the finishing touches in the ninth for a 9-3 final.
Ryan Kulik (0-1) took the loss in his River Bandits debut. The eighth-round pick in the 2008 draft allowed four runs on six hits in two innings of work before his rain-shortened night came to an end.
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