Chiefs Split Sunday DH With Wisconsin
Published on May 13, 2007 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release
Grand Chute, WI -A game two walkoff homer by Andy Hargrove of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers gave the Peoria Chiefs a doubleheader split Sunday afternoon in Appleton. Peoria won the opener 8-5 and never led the nightcap losing 5-3 in eight innings on the Hargrove homer.
In game one, the Rattlers took an early lead against Chiefs starter Jake Renshaw. Carlos Peguero led off the second with a single and Renshaw hit Kalian Sams with an inside fastball. After a double play grounder sent Peguero to third, Kuo Hui Lo made it 1-0 with a RBI single to left. The Chiefs tied the game in the third with an unearned run. Matt Camp doubled to left with two outs and stole third. He then came home when shortstop Carlos Truinfel threw wide of first on a grounder from Alfred Joseph.
After a 58 minute rain delay, the Chiefs jumped on Rattlers reliever Steve Uhlmansiek in the fifth. With a runner on second and two outs, Joseph singled to right for a 2-1 Chiefs lead. Russ Canzler followed with a RBI double and he scored on a single from Josh Lansford. With a 4-1 lead, Wellington Castillo doubled in Lansford to give the Chiefs a four run advantage.
The game stayed 5-1 into a wild seventh inning. With Joseph at first, Lansford launched a RBI double off the left field wall for a 6-1 lead. Castillo then blasted his fourth homer of the season over the short left field wall for an 8-1 Chiefs advantage.
Renshaw had shut down the Rattlers for four straight innings and went for a complete game in the seventh. With one out he walked Leury Bonilla and Peguero hit a five footer toward third. Castillo pounced on it from behind the plate and threw wildly to first. As the ball rattled around in the Chiefs bullpen, Bonilla scored and Peguero went to second. Sams then reached on a 40 foot single to third and Alex Liddi doubled home Peguero. Jayson Ruhlman relieved Renshaw and was greeted by a bloop single to left from Lo. A bad throw back to the infield by Joseph on a flyout let the Rattlers cut the lead to 8-5. Ruhlman then struck out Ogui Diaz on a pitch in the dirt and Diaz intentionally kicked the ball away from Castillo. When the play wasn't called, the Chiefs threw Lo out trying to advance to third to end the game.
Renshaw (3-0) picks up the game one win with a career high 6 1/3 innings. He allowed five runs on five hits while striking out six. Ruhlman got the last two outs with one hit allowed and one strikeout.
Game two started much the same way the first two games of the series have begun, with Wisconsin scoring early runs. Chiefs' starter Marco Carrillo walked the leadoff hitter Alex Meneses and gave up a long RBI triple to Truinfel. Peguero gave the home team a 2-0 lead with a RBI groundout to second. In the second inning, Andy Hargrove, son of Mariners manager Mike Hargrove, homered to left-center off the scoreboard for a 3-0 lead.
Trailing by three the Chiefs got back in the game in the fourth against Rattlers starter Steven Richard. Yusuf Carter led off with his team leading fourth tripled of the season and scored in a RBI groundout off the bat of Lansford. Russ Canzler then cut the lead to 3-2 with a long homer to left-center, his second of the season.
Peoria continued their comeback in the fifth inning and knocked Richard out of the contest. With one out, Camp singled to center and moved to second on a wild pitch. Jim Adduci knocked Richard from the game when his doubled to left scored Camp and tied the game. Joe Kantakevich came out of the bullpen and struck out both Joseph and Carter to end the inning.
With two outs in the eighth, Danny Santin blooped a single into left field off Jeremy Papelbon. Hargrove took two strikes before driving his second homer of the game off the scoreboard for a 2-run walk off and a 5-3 Wisconsin win.
Carrillo allowed three runs on four hits and a walk over 3 2/3 innings. Oscar Bernard replaced him out of the bullpen and allowed one hit and two walks over 2 1/3 shutout innings. Papelbon took the loss allowing two runs on three hits over 1 2/3 innings.
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