Chiefs Fall 5-4 in 11 innings Saturday
Published on April 5, 2008 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
Burlington, IA - The Peoria Chiefs wasted a pair of game-tying home runs by Dylan Johnston and committed eight errors in a 5-4, 11-inning loss to the Burlington Bees Saturday night. The loss drops the Chiefs to 1-2 on the young season.
Clint Robinson led off the Bees 11th inning by drawing a walk from Chiefs reliever Dustin Sasser. With Shawn Hayes batting, Sasser's pick-off throw went down the right field line allowing Robinson to advance all the way to third with the winning run. After a strikeout of Hayes, Peoria native Ryan Eigsti won the game with a sacrifice fly to deep left for a 5-4 final.
One inning after tying the game at two with a two-run home run, Chiefs leftfielder Dylan Johnston did it again in the ninth inning against the same pitcher, Joe Augustine. With the Chiefs down to their last out and Blake Lalli on first, Johnston crushed a 1-1 pitch to straight away center field for his second two-run home run in as many at-bats to tie the game at four.
With the Chiefs down two, the offense rallied in the eighth against Bees reliever Joe Augustine. Drew Rundle led off with a single up the middle and Dylan Johnston tied the game with an opposite field home run, his first of the season. Nate Samson drew a walk and was sacrificed to second by Gonzalez. Augustine got a second out before walking Kyler Burke, but Josh Donaldson struck out with the go-ahead run left at second base.
The Chiefs threatened in the top of the first but came up empty after a base-running mistake. Marwin Gonzalez led off with a single and moved to second on a groundout. Burke singled to left as Gonzalez advanced to third. But with clean-up hitter Donaldson batting, Gonzalez was picked off third by catcher Todd Balduf and Ed Cegarra eventually got out of the inning unscathed.
With the scored tied 0-0 into the third, Burlington got on the board against Chiefs starter Chris Siegfried. Shawn Hayes drew a leadoff walk and moved to third on a single by Balduf. Zach Evangelho gave the Bees a 1-0 lead with a sacrifice fly to left field as Hayes scored easily.
The Chiefs defense let Siegfried down in the sixth inning as Burlington added to their lead with an unearned run. Wilson Tucker started the inning with a slow roller toward second and reached second base as Nate Samson's throw to first sailed into the Chiefs dugout. After a walk to David Lough, Mike Moustakas hit a grounder to Jovan Rosa at first base. Rosa threw to second to force Lough, but the relay throw by Gonzalez was off-target allowing Tucker to score on the play for a 2-0 Burlington lead.
Siegfried established a new career high with five innings of work in his second career start. The left-hander allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits in a no-decision. Hung-Wen Chen made his season debut and allowed one hit with a strikeout in his lone inning of work. Marcos Mateo allowed one earned run and one hit in his two innings of work while walking four. Dustin Sasser (0-1) took the loss allowing two hits and one unearned run in 2 2/3 innings of work.
Ed Cegarra was brilliant for the Bees working six shutout innings. The right-hander, who was hit hard by the Chiefs twice last season, allowed just three hits and struck out three. Augustine blew the save opportunity for allowing four runs. Henry Arias (1-0) picked up the win with two perfect innings for the Bees.Player of the Game - Dylan Johnston (LF) - Johnston turned in a career night with a pair of game-tying two-run home runs. The first went to left field in the eighth inning while the second went over the batters' eye in the ninth inning. Johnston finished 2-for-4 with a career high four RBI.
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