Chiefs Fall 9-4 Friday Night
April 18, 2014 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
Fort Wayne, IN- The Peoria Chiefs committed six errors and allowed a season high in hits and runs in a 9-4 loss to the Fort Wayne TinCaps on Friday night. The Chiefs are now 8-6 on the season and will attempt to avoid the sweep Saturday at 5:05 ET against the 6-8 TinCaps.
"We didn't execute very well defensively and just didn't play very well," said Chiefs manager Joe Kruzel. "It wasn't just errors but also throwing to the wrong base. We had a lapse in concentration and focus the last couple days and it bit us tonight."
After not committing an error in 30 straight innings, the Chiefs defense threw the ball all over the place in the second inning as the TinCaps scored three runs on four errors. Dane Phillips doubled to left with one out and Franchy Cordero reached on an error by Jake Stone at first base for a 1-0 TinCaps lead. Cordero stole second and moved to third on a wild pitch as Jose Urena struck out. Steve Bean's throw to first on the strikeout sailed down the right-field line as Urena reached second. With two outs, Mason Katz bobbled a grounder and threw wild to first for two errors on the same plat as Urena scored.
The third inning started on an error at shortstop by Cesar Valera and Fort Wayne again took advantage. Franmil Reyes doubled to left and Fernando Perez singled for a 4-0 Fort Wayne lead. A sacrifice fly from Phillips added another run before Silfredo Garcia got out of the inning.
Fort Wayne kept the pressure on Garcia in the fourth inning with two singles and a hit batter to start the inning. The Chiefs got two straight outs at home but Phillips singled to right for a 7-0 TinCaps lead.
The Chiefs finally broke through against reliever Yimmi Brasoban in the fifth inning. With Katz on at first base, Stone doubled to right for the first run and Michael Schulze singled to left. Schulze moved to second on a wild pitch and with two down, Valera singled home two runs to cut the deficit to 7-3.
Peoria added another run in the eighth inning as Bean singled to third base and moved to third on a throwing error by Dustin Peterson. Bean scored on a groundout by Katz to cut the deficit to 7-4 but the TinCaps scored twice in the bottom of the inning for the 9-4 win.
"Garcia made some quality pitches but unfortunately we didn't execute behind him and he pitched better than his line is going to look," said Kruzel. "We fought and came back with some chances but couldn't get the next run and they added two and we can't let that happen."
Garcia allowed seven runs, four earned, on a career-high 11 hits over five innings. He hit one, threw two wild pitches and struck out four. Blake McKnight allowed two runs on five hits over three innings with two strikeouts and two walks.
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