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Chiefs Blow Five Run Lead, Lose in Extras

June 29, 2012 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Grand Chute, WI - The Peoria Chiefs let leads of 6-1 and 7-6 slip away Friday night in an 8-7, 10-inning road loss to the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers. Wisconsin loaded the bases in the tenth and won on a single by Rafael Neda as the Chiefs fall to 3-5 in the second half and 38-39 overall.

With the game tied in the bottom of the 10th inning, Luis Liria allowed a leadoff single to Greg Hopkins. Hopkins moved to second on a wild pitch before Nick Ramirez struck out. Liria intentionally walked Ben McMahan to set up an inning-ending double play. He got ahead of Yadiel Rivera before eventually issuing a full-count walk to load the bases. Rafael Neda delivered a line drive single to left to win the game for Wisconsin 8-7.

Three hours earlier the Rattlers jumped out to an early lead against Michael Jensen with an unearned run in the bottom of the first. Chad Stand reached on an infield hit with one out and stole second. With Stand at third, Hopkins reached on an error by Dustin Geiger at third as Stang scored the game's first run.

The Chiefs rallied back against David Goforth in the third inning. Yasiel Balaguert led off with a single and moved to second on a base hit by Yaniel Cabezas. Pin-Chieh Chen singled home Balaguert to tie the game. Zeke DeVoss laid down a sacrifice bunt and was safe at first on an errant throw to first by Goforth as Cabezas scored to put the Chiefs on top. Chen came home on another error that allowed Taiwan Easterling to reach and DeVoss to advance to third. Easterling stole second and DeVoss came home when Neda's throw was wide of second and the Chiefs took a 3-1 lead. With one out Paul Hoilman singled home a run for his team leading 52nd RBI and Anthony Giansanti made it 6-1 with a two-out single before Goforth escaped the inning.

The Chiefs lead didn't last long. Ramirez led off the fourth inning with a single and McMahan just cleared the fence in center for his sixth home run of the season to cut the Chiefs lead to 6-3. After an error by Geiger at third, Neda launched his first homer of the season down the left field line and the Chiefs lead was down to one. Carlos George reached on an error by Geiger and Lance Roenicke doubled to left to put two in scoring position with still no outs. Stang tied the game with a sacrifice fly to center before Jensen retired the next two batters to escape the inning tied 6-6.

Javier Baez led off the sixth with a triple high off the batters eye in center but was not able to score as reliever Stephen Petersen escaped the inning. In the seventh Petersen walked DeVoss and with one out the Chiefs' leadoff man stole second and third base. With two down and Geiger at first, DeVoss scored on a wild pitch to put the Chiefs back on top, 7-6.

Hunter Cervenka preserved the lead in the bottom of the seventh and turned things over to closer Yao-Lin Wang in the eighth. On the second pitch of the inning, Ramirez crushed a towering homer down the right-field line and just inside the fair pole to tie the game 7-7. It was the second blown save of the season for Wang and the sixth homer of the campaign for Ramirez.

Jensen allowed six runs, three earned, on six hits over five innings of work. He struck out six and walked one while allowing two home runs. Cervenka threw two shutout innings with one hit allowed and one strikeout. Wang allowed one run on two hits over two innings with one strikeout. Liria (1-2) allowed one run on two hits and two walks in 1/3 of an inning.

Casey's General Store Player of the Game - Anthony Giansanti (RF) - Giansanti singled home a run in the six-run third inning and added a single later in the game as well. He finished 2-for-5 with his 12th RBI of the season.

Notes: Geiger was 0-for-4 with a walk to snap his career-best 13-game hit streakBaez had his second triple of the seasonThe Chiefs were 3-for-12 with runners in scoring position Friday and are now 5-for-27 in the seriesJensen had not allowed a homer since May 6, a span of 53 innings and then he allowed two in the fourth inning FridayThe Chiefs tied their season high for most runs in an inning with six in the thirdPeoria also scored six runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat Lansing April 24Geiger had all four Chiefs errorsThe last Chief with four errors in a game was Marwin Gonzalez on April 5, 2008 at BurlingtonWang is 10-for-12 in save chances and both of his blown saves have come against WisconsinThe Rattlers have eight walk-off wins against the Chiefs since the start of the 2005 season, two in 2012Wisconsin has now won 15 games in their final at-bat with eight walk-off wins this seasonThe Chiefs are 4-3 in extra innings, 2-1 against WisconsinThe Rattlers lead the season series 8-2Peoria is 2-3 on the roadtrip with three straight losses and one game remainingThe series concludes Saturday at 6:35 p.m. as the Chiefs start RH Zach Cates (0-0, 1.93) against Rattlers RH Mark Williams (4-6, 2.57)The broadcast can be heard, starting with a pre-game show at 6:20 p.m. on www.peoriachiefs.com/listenlive which also has downloads for a free app on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.

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