Chiefs snap three game slide with 6-2 win
July 13, 2005 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
Burlington, IA - The Peoria Chiefs got four scoreless innings from a struggling bullpen en route to a 6-2 in over the Burlington Bees Wednesday night in Iowa. Sean Gallagher (9-3) picked up the win as the Chiefs won for the first time since last Friday to improve to 8-12 on the half and 43-47 overall.
The Chiefs got on the board in the first inning with an unearned run against Bees starter Danny Christensen. With one out Eric Patterson walked and advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Damaso Espino. After Christensen struck out Ryan Harvey, Jesse Schmidt singled sharply up the middle to give the Chiefs a 1-0 lead.
In the 3rd, the Chiefs added to their lead with the same combination. Patterson reached on a fielders' choice and stole second with one out. After Christensen struck out Harvey again, Schmidt singled to left to score Patterson for a 2-0 Peoria lead.
Burlington battled back against Chiefs ace Sean Gallagher in the home half of the 3rd inning. Darwinson Salazar walked, Cody Cure singled and Irving Falu walked to load the bases with nobody out. Geraldo Valentin got the Bees on the board with an opposite field single and after a pop-out, Rusty Brown tied the game with a sac fly to center.
With the game tied 2-2, the Chiefs came right back in the top of the 4th to knock Christensen out of the game. Drew Larsen doubled to start the inning and advanced to third when the rightfielder bobbled the ball for an error. After a groundout, Christensen walked both Aaron Smith and Joe Simonkaitis to load the bases. Sam Fuld grounded to first, but Rusty Brown threw wild to the plate allowing Larsen to score and everyone else to advance. Patterson followed with a sac fly to deep center that scored Smith for a 4-2 Chiefs lead.
Patterson greeted reliever Chad Blackwell with a long triple to the right-center field wall in the 9th inning. With Harvey at the plate, Blackwell uncorked a wild pitch allowing Patterson to score easily for a 5-2 Peoria lead. The triple was Patterson's team leading sixth of the season.
Gallagher tossed fine innings while allowing two runs on two hits. The 19-year old right-hander struck out four and walked three. His MWL leading ERA is now at 1.80 and he moves to fourth in the league in strikeouts with 95.
Victor Ramos tossed the first two innings out of the pen and allowed just one hit while striking out four. Adalberto Mendez struck out one while allowing one hit in the 8th before Drew Dickson threw a scoreless 9th. The three combined for four innings of two hit shutout baseball while striking out six.
Pepsi Players of the Game Jesse Schmidt (DH) - Schmidt came through for the Chiefs early in the game driving in Patterson in each of his first two at-bats. Playing in just his seventh Chiefs game, Schmidt was 2-for-4 with two RBI, a stolen base and a walk.
Notes... Fuld has at least one hit in 22 of his last 24 games...The Chiefs bullpen had allowed 30 runs in 29 innings of work over the last eight games entering Wednesday...Jesse Schmidt collected his first two-hit and first two-RBI game of the season for the Chiefs...Patterson's last triple was on June 7th against Lansing...The two teams meet up again on Thursday for game two of the three game series...The Chiefs will have RH Matt Weber on the mound while Burlington counters with RH Patrick Green at 7:00 PM...The game can be heard on 1350 WOAM and www.peoriachiefs.com.
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