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Bandits Unable to Hold off Loons in Extras

July 14, 2022 - Midwest League (MWL)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release


Davenport, Iowa - The Quad Cities River Bandits lost their second in-a-row to the Great Lakes Loons on Wednesday, as they fell 5-4 in 11 innings on Wednesday night at Modern Woodmen Park.

Quad Cities' offense worked to give starter William Fleming an early cushion, bringing in a pair of runs over the first two innings on Herard Gonzalez's RBI single in the first and then pushing their lead to 2-0 on Dillan Shrum's solo home run in the second.

After stranding five Loons' runners over his first three innings, Fleming finally blinked in the fourth and gave Great Lakes its first tally by hitting Jorbit Vivas with a pitch in a bases loaded situation. However, he forced the next batter, Diego Cartaya, to ground out and keep the Bandits on top 3-1.

In the bottom half of the fourth, Shrum again came through for Quad Cities and pushed his team's lead back to two with an RBI on a sacrifice-fly, which would be the last allowed by Loons' starter Ben Casparius, who worked 4.0 innings, allowed three runs, and struck out seven.

Fleming went one more frame for Q.C. and stranded his ninth and tenth base runners for a scoreless fifth inning and left his 5.0-inning, one-run start in line for the win.

The first man out of the bullpen for the Bandits was Patrick Halligan, who after needing five pitches to record the first two outs in the sixth, surrendered four-straight baserunners, including a solo homer from Vivas and a game-tying RBI single from Jose Ramos; but on the same play, Diego Hernandez helped minimize the damage and ended the inning by throwing out Alex De Jesus who tried to go first to third.

With the game tied 3-3, both bullpens locked down the final third of regulation with Great Lakes' relievers not allowing a base runner until the eighth, as Jeff Belge, Cole Duensing, and Ben Harris worked perfect appearances.

Halligan settled down and closed out his 3.0-inning performance with six consecutive outs.

In the ninth, both Kasey Kalich and Ryan Sublette allowed the go-ahead run aboard, but worked out of the jam, with the Loons' righty striking out Shrum and Burle Dixon to send the game to extras.

Both teams plated their placed runners in the tenth, with Edwin Mateo scoring Kekai Rios with a sacrifice-fly and Luca Tresh ending an 0-for-3 night with a two-out game-tying single against Brayden Fisher to push the game to the eleventh.

In the top half, Great Lakes turned to the sacrifice again and plated Eddys Leonard on a De Jesus fly to right, but Quad Cities' offense failed to answer and left both the tying and winning runs on base with one out when Fisher whiffed Juan Carlos Negret and Shrum to end the ballgame.

Fisher (3-3), who pitched both extra innings, struck out four, and allowed one unearned run got the win for the Loons, while Kalich (2-3) got stuck with the loss for the Bandits, surrendering two placed runners and striking out three in a season-high matching 3.0-inning night.

Quad Cities will look to snap its three-game skid on Thursday night at Modern Woodmen Park, as Rito Lugo (0-1, 4.05) makes his home debut for the Bandits and Carlos Duran (0-1, 0.69) will toe the slab for Great Lakes. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30pm.

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