MWL1 Peoria Chiefs

Chiefs Fall 6-4 Thursday

Published on August 2, 2012 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release


Davenport, IA - Dustin Geiger homered for the second game in a row but the Peoria Chiefs allowed three unearned runs and couldn't catch up in a 6-4 Thursday night loss to the Quad Cities River Bandits. The loss drops the Chiefs to 16-23 in the second half and 51-57 on the season.

After the Chiefs went in order in the top of the first, Quad Cities struck first against Starling Peralta. Nick Longmire drew a leadoff walk and moved to second on an infield single from Nick Martini. Both runners moved up on a fly out by Stephen Piscotty and Longmire scored the first run of the game on a Peralta wild pitch. A walk to David Medina put runners on the corners with one out by Peralta struck out the next two batters to escape the ham.

It didn't take the Chiefs long to get even in the second inning. Dustin Geiger, who tied a franchise record with eight RBI on Wednesday, crushed the first Brad Watson pitch of the inning over the left-field berm for a solo home run. The homer, Geiger's team-leading 14th of the season, tied the game 1-1 and was his third in six at-bats.

Peoria fell behind on the long ball in the fourth inning. Peralta again walked the leadoff man and with Medina at first, Anthony Garcia launched his 14th homer of the season for a 3-1 Bandits lead. Peralta bounced back to retire the next three batters including a pair of strikeouts.

The Chiefs responded in the fifth inning against Watson. Wes Darvill led off with a triple down the right-field line, his sixth of the season. Oliver Zapata plated Darvill with a groundout to second as the Chiefs cut the lead to 3-2.

Quad Cities extended their lead with three unearned runs and a two-out rally against Justin Berg in the sixth inning. Berg retired the first two quickly before Jeremy Patton singled and Juan Castillo reached on an error by Darvill at shortstop. Luis Mateo doubled off the wall in left to score both runners and Anthony Melchionda made it 6-2 with a single to right before Berg got out of the inning.

Reliever Ricky Martinez came on for the River Bandits in the seventh and the Chiefs answered with a two-out rally of their own. Zapata started the rally with a walk and Bijan Rademacher singled to right. Zeke DeVoss was hit in the back to load the bases and Pin-Chieh Chen dropped a double in front of a diving left-fielder to score two. With the Chiefs down 6-4 and two runners in scoring position, Martinez got Javier Baez to groundout to shortstop to end the threat.

Peralta (3-7) allowed three runs on three hits and three walks over five innings of work. He tied a season high with six strikeouts and also allowed a homer and threw a wild pitch. Berg allowed three runs, all unearned, on five hits over two innings of work with one walk and one strikeout. Sheldon McDonald threw one perfect inning with a strikeout

Casey's General Store Player of the Game - Dustin Geiger (3B) - Geiger homered for the second day in a row and had three hits for the second straight game as well. He finished 3-for-4 with a homer, double, single, RBI and run scored.

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