Chiefs Shut Out Cougars 5-0, Earn Series Split
August 29, 2007 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
Peoria, IL- Robert Hernandez pitched six shut out innings and won his second straight start as the Peoria Chiefs earned a series split with a 5-0 win over the visiting Kane County Cougars on Wednesday night. The win coupled with a Cedar Rapids win keeps the Chiefs a game back of the Kernels in the Wild Card race.
Hernandez picked up his seventh win of the season by going six innings and allowing just four hits while striking out one. Hernandez had a four pitch inning for his final inning of work in the sixth. Reliever Casey Lambert pitched two scoreless innings and struck out one. Matt Maradeo pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to complete the Chiefs 13th shut out of the season.
The Peoria Chiefs offense picked up right where they left off the night before in the first inning against Kane County starter James Heuser. Ty Wright led the game off with a base hit and moved to third on a Darwin Barney single to right. Jim Adduci delivered an RBI double to score Wright to make it 1-0. Marquez Smith grounded out to short to score Barney and give the Chiefs a 2-0 lead.
The Chiefs offense struck again in the fourth inning after back-to-back walks to Russ Canzler and Derek Schermerhorn to start the frame. Matt Canepa came through with a single up the middle to score Canzler and extend the lead to 3-0. Brian Leclerc extended the lead to 4-0 with an infield single off the glove of the third basemen that allowed Adduci to score.
Peoria got another run in the sixth inning after Heuser walked Schermerhorn to start the inning and end his night. Reliever Scott Moore came in and gave up a single to Leclerc that moved Schermerhorn to third with one no outs. With two outs, Moore almost got out of the inning without a run but Larry Cobb did not field a Wright ground ball cleanly and Schermerhorn scored to make it 5-0.
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Robert Hernandez (SP) - Hernandez went six shut out innings and allowed just four hits. He picked up his seventh win of the season and his second on the Chiefs six game homestand.
Playoff Watch: The top two teams in the division excluding Beloit and Clinton will make the playoffs. With 5 games remaining, the Chiefs are a game back in the Wild Card race behind Cedar Rapids who beat Beloit Wednesday, and 5.5 games behind Quad Cities who were tied 0-0 with Burlington in the divisional race. Kane County is now 2 behind Cedar Rapids and Burlington is 6 ½ games out. The Chiefs have three games (at home) against Cedar Rapids and two at Quad Cities. The Wild Card team will play Beloit in the first round while the Second Half Champion will play Clinton.
Notes... Peoria went 4-2 on the six game homestand... Leclerc's 12-game hitting streak matches a Chiefs season high set by Ryne Malone...Peoria won the season series between the two teams 7-6...Kane County was 0-7 with runners in scoring position...The Chiefs are 54-0 in games in which they lead after seven innings... All five hits came from the first and third hitters in the Cougar line up...Hernandez was 2-0 on the home stand...The Chiefs lead the MWL with 13 shut outs...It is the third most shut outs in a season in franchise history with the most being 19 in 2002...Peoria hits the road for a brief two game series with division leading Quad Cities on Thursday night at 7:00 PM...The Chiefs will send LHP James Russell (0-0, 0.00) to the hill for his second MWL start against Swing RHP Clay Mortensen (0-1, 2.78)...The game can be heard live beginning with the pre-game show at 6:45 PM online at www.peoriachiefs.com or on WOAM 1350.
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