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Bats Go Quiet in Bandits' Streak-Ending Loss

May 15, 2021 - Midwest League (MWL)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release


Davenport, Iowa - After riding a High-A-best six-game winning streak, the Quad Cities River Bandits failed to get the big hit on Friday as they fell to the Cedar Rapids Kernels 6-2 at Modern Woodmen Park.

As they had done in the previous four three games, the Kernels posted the contest's first tally when Matt Wallner produced an RBI single off of Bandits' starter Anthony Veneziano in the top of the first to take a 1-0 lead. But Quad Cities answered shortly there after with a sacrifice fly from Vinnie Pasquantino that scored Nathan Eaton and tied it at 1-1.

In the second, Trey Cabbage took advantage of William Hancock's third passed ball of the year and plated a Cedar Rapids run before Spencer Speer's sac-fly gave the visitors a 3-1 lead.

With starter Kody Funderburk and reliever Derek Molina stranding six QC runners through their combined six innings, the Kernels added two in the fifth to make it 5-2 on Steer's solo home run and Gabe Snyder's RBI double, both off of Dante Biasi.

Seth Gray also got in on the offensive action and drove in Gabriel Maciel on an RBI single in the seventh.

After being held without a hit since the second inning, the River Bandits were able to load the bases with one out in the bottom of the seventh, but Jordan Gore recorded back-to-back strikeouts of Seuly Matias and Jimmy Govern to end the threat and keep the game 6-2 in favor of the Kernels.

Quad Cities was then able to put men on in the eighth and the ninth via base on balls, but Gore and Zach Featherstone, who struggled in an appearance earlier in the series, allowed nothing of them as they dispatched the top half of the Bandits lineup in order to freeze the River Bandits winning streak at six.

Derek Molina (1-0) earned the win for Cedar Rapids with five strikeouts in three innings, while it was Anthony Veneziano (0-1) taking the loss in his second appearance of the year after allowing three runs, two earned, through three innings.

The River Bandits will have another chance to win the series at Modern Woodmen Park on Saturday as they'll back Grant Gambrell (1-0) who will make his second start of the year and battle Cedar Rapids' Matt Canterino (0-0) at 6:30 p.m. CDT.

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