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Chiefs Falter at Home, 8-4 to Kane County

September 3, 2009 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Chiefs Falter at Home, 8-4 to Kane County

Ridling homers in loss; Chiefs wrap up regular season home slate Friday

Peoria, IL - Home losses have become a rarity for the Peoria Chiefs, who suffered that rare occurance to the in-state rival Kane County Cougars with an 8-4 defeat Thursday night at O'Brien Field. A night after setting the franchise record for home wins in a season, the Chiefs squandered several scoring chances throughout the night en route to their five-run defeat. Peoria wraps up the regular season home schedule Friday night in a series rubber match against playoff bound Kane County.

Starter Justin Bristow, who has struggled in the first inning all season long, allowed another solo tally in the first Thursday night. Connor Crumbliss singled to lead off the game and moved to second on a Leonardo Gil groundout. Steve Parker came up and split the gap in right-center for a RBI double to give Kane County an early 1-0 lead.

The Chiefs tied it in the second. Kyler Burke walked and D.J. LeMahieu singled up the middle to start the inning. Nelson Perez was retired on a groundout to first, with both runners moving up a base. Michael Brenly stepped in and drove in the Chiefs first run of the game on a RBI groundout to short that plated Burke to knot the game at one.

Kane County regained the lead in the third. Carlos Arrieche led off the frame with his first homer of the season, a towering shot to left to make it 2-1. Crumbliss singled and stole second to bring up Gil who singled through the left side of the infield and the ball skidded underneath the glove of left fielder Nelson Perez, allowing Gil to score on the play to give the Cougars a 3-1 advantage.

The Cougars added a run in the fifth. After a groundout by Crumbliss, Gil was hit by a pitch and Parker singled to right to put runners at the corners for Franklin Hernandez. Hernandez hit a grounder to LeMahieu at second. The Chiefs tried to get the force out at second as well as the out at first, but the runners were called safe on both occasions and Gil scored on the play to make it 4-1.

The Chiefs had multiple opportunities to close the gap or even overtake the Cougars in both the fifth and sixth innings. In the bottom of the fifth, Peoria loaded the bases with only one away but both Brett Jackson and Ryan Flaherty struck out looking to end the threat. The Chiefs loaded the bases again in the sixth but with no outs this time and got only a Brenly sacrifice fly scoring Burke to make it a 4-2 score.

The Cougars created distance in the top of the seventh. Jeremy Barfield and Petey Paramore both delivered RBI singles off reliever Jeff Beliveau and scored on Tyler Ladendorf's two-run double against Erik Hamren to give Kane County an 8-2 lead.

The Chiefs got a pair of solo tallies in the eighth and ninth innings. Leading off the eighth, Ridling clubbed his 16th homer of the season to cut the Chiefs deficit to five and in the ninth Flaherty made it 8-4 with a RBI single plating Brenly. The Chiefs had the tying run at the plate with two outs but Burke flew out to the warning track in left to end the game.

Bristow (5-8) fired 4 1/3 innings and allowed four runs on seven hits while walking one and striking out three. Beliveau gave up four runs on two hits in 2 1/3 innings of work, and Erik Hamren hurled 2 1/3 scoreless frames and gave up just one hit while walking two and striking out one.

Casey's General Store Player of the Game - Rebel Ridling (1B) - Ridling was 2-for-4 including his 16th homer of the season which is second on the club. His run driven in was his 97th of the year which is the second highest total in the MWL.

Notes... Ridling has 10 homers at home this season...Alex Cabrera has the Chiefs record for most home runs at home with 14 in 1994...Ridling had his team-leading 49th multi-hit game of the season...Bristow has now allowed 23 first inning runs, 22 earned, in 23 starts this season...Perez committed his first error since July 17...Flaherty suffered his first four-strikeout game of the season...He had one September 1, 2008 with Boise...Hamren had two wild pitches Thursday and now has 14 this season which ties him with Alberto Cabrera for the team-high...With two strikeouts Thursday night, Beliveau is now tied with Chris Archer for the team lead in strikeouts with 113...Peoria is 23-44 when they score four runs or less...The Chiefs conclude the regular season home slate Friday against Kane County at 6:30 pm...The first 1,500 fans will receive a Chiefs playoff t-shirt and all fans after that will receive a scratch-off ticket with chances to win prizes such as baseball hats, t-shirts, bobble heads, Homer banks and Chiefs pint glasses...It is the last fireworks show of the season presented by Budweiser...There will also be player awards such as the season's MVP, Pitcher of the Year, Community Service Award and the Ryne Sandberg Award before the game...The Chiefs will start Austin Bibens-Dirkx (7-1, 1.66) against Cougars starter Anivioris Ramirez (4-2, 3.06)...The game can be heard starting with the pre-game show at 6:15 PM on 96.5 ESPN Radio and www.peoriachiefs.com

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