Chiefs Shutout South Bend, Season High Six Games Over .500
Published on July 19, 2007 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
South Bend, IN - The Peoria Chiefs got an outstanding pitching effort from Robert Hernandez and three relievers to shut out the South Bend Silver Hawks 1-0 Thursday afternoon. The win, their fourth straight, moves the first place Chiefs to six games over .500 for the first time in 2007 at 16-10.
The game entered the fifth inning scoreless as both Chiefs hurler Robert Hernandez and Hawks starter Derik Nippert pitched in and out of trouble. In the Chiefs' fifth, Matt Canepa led off with a single and went to third on a hard-hit single from Ryne Malone. After a pop-up, Darwin Barney delivered his first Chiefs hit and first Chiefs RBI to bring Canepa home for a 1-0 lead. Nippert recovered to get Josh Lansford on a flyout and Blake Lalli on a groundout to end the inning.
South Bend threatened against reliever Casey Lambert in the eighth. Trailing 1-0, Richard Mercado led off the inning with a double off the leftfield wall. Mercado moved to third on a groundout and Lambert struck out Matt Oxendine for the second out. South Bend pinch hit Ricardo Sosa for Tyler Jones and the Chiefs brought on closer Alex Maestri out of the bullpen with the tying run at third. Maestri got Sosa to popup to Canepa in foul territory behind the plate to end the threat.
Hernandez limited the Silver Hawks to just two hits over six shutout innings to stop a personal three game losing streak. The eighteen year old gave up both hits in the third inning while walking three and striking out two. Jose Ceda worked a perfect seventh with a strikeout in his return to the Midwest League. Lambert allowed one hit while striking out one in 2/3 of an inning. Maestri Gorman's Pub Player of the Game
Darwin Barney (SS) - Barney drove in the Chiefs lone run in the fifth inning with his first hit in a Chiefs uniform. He also turned in two sparkling defensive plays and helped turn a double play.
Notes...Blake Lalli extended his hit streak to eight games with a first inning single and is 13-for-31 during the stretch...Jim Adduci's six game hit streak came to an end...Peoria went 1-for-8 with runners in scoring position and left nine runners on base...South Bend got base runners past first base in just the third and eighth innings...Ceda last pitched for the Chiefs when he started at Dayton on May1 10th before going on the DL...The Chiefs are 14-12 in day games this season, 7-6 on the road...The four game series finishes Friday night at 7:30 EST when the Chiefs go for their first four game sweep since April as they send RH Jake Renshaw (9-4, 4.21) to the mound against Silver Hawks LH Eddie Romero (6-3, 4.22)...The game can be heard live beginning with the pre-game show at 6:15 PM Central time online at www.peoriachiefs.com or on WOAM 1350.
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