MWL1 Peoria Chiefs

Chiefs Fall 3-1

Published on August 1, 2007 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release


Comstock Park, MI - The Peoria Chiefs were held to just one hit in the first seven innings and fell 3-1 to the West Michigan Whitecaps on Wednesday night. The Chiefs second loss in a row drops them to 23-15 on the half and 54-53 overall but they stay in first place as Quad Cities lost at South Bend. For the second night in a row, the Whitecaps took a first inning lead with two outs. Chiefs starter Jeremy Papelbon retired the first two West Michigan batters before giving up a single to James Skelton. Skelton stole second and was in position to score on a single to center by Ryan Strieby. Strieby was thrown out attempting to get into second base on the play, but Skelton scored for the 1-0 Whitecaps lead. Peoria got their first hit of the night in the fourth when Brian Leclerc led off with a single against reliever Charlie Furbush. Leclerc was sacrificed to second by Leon Johnson and moved to third on a groundout by Jim Adduci. Furbush recovered to strike out Derek Schermerhorn to end the inning with Leclerc stranded at third. West Michigan knocked Papelbon from the game in the sixth inning with a pair of runs. Scott Sizemore led off with a double and scored on a single by Skelton for a 2-0 lead. Casey Lambert relieved Papelbon and gave up a run scoring single to Brandon Timm before getting a double play to end the inning. Peoria finally got on the board in the top of the eighth against Furbish. After an error in right field allowed Clark Hardman to reach, Russ Canzler bounced into a 5-4-3 double play. Wellington Castillo's flyball into right field was again misplayed and the Chiefs catcher ended up at third with a triple. Furbush then unleashed a wild pitch that allowed Castillo to score cutting the Whtiecaps lead to 3-1. In his second start of the season, Papelbon allowed three runs on six hits over five innings of work. The left-hander struck out two and walked one. Lambert went two innings of relief allowing two hits while striking out two. Righty Jose Ceda retired the Caps in order with one strikeout in his lone inning of work Gorman's Pub Player of the Game Wellington Castillo (C) - The Chiefs catcher tripled and scored the team's lone run in the 8th inning.

Notes...The Chiefs were retired in order in six of the first seven innings...The Chiefs left just one runner on base for the first time this season, they didn't leave a runner on at all in an 8-6 loss against Burlington on June 14th...The game lasted just 2 hours and 7 minutes, the Chiefs shortest nine inning game since June 30th and third shortest of the season...The series concludes on Thursday night as the Chiefs send RH Robert Hernandez (4-6, 4.29) against West Michigan's RH Jonah Nickerson (9-6, 4.09) at 7:00 PM EST...The game can be heard live beginning with the pre-game show at 5:45 PM Peoria time online at www.peoriachiefs.com or on WOAM 1350. 3-

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