MWL1 Peoria Chiefs

Chiefs Win Streak Ends as Second Half Starts with Loss

June 20, 2013 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Peoria Chiefs News Release


Beloit, WI - The PeoriaChiefs suffered their first loss in a week in a 5-1 setback to the Beloit Snappers to start the second half of the season. The loss snapped a four-game win streak as the Chiefs played their seventh straight road game and fell to 0-1 in the second half and 38-30 overall.

The game was scoreless into the third inning, Beloit's nine-hitter Chris Bostick hit his 10th home run of the season for a 1-0 Snappers lead. Beloit doubled their lead in the fifth inning when John Wooten also connected on a solo home run, his 10th of the season. The Snappers lead the MWL with 66 home runs and those were the only tallies off Cory Jones in the game.

Beloit added on against reliever Joe Scanio when a ball was lost in the lights in the seventh and fell in for a triple for Ryan Mathews. The Snappers made it 3-0 when Mathews slid in under the tag on a groundball to second base later in the inning.

The Chiefs had just one runner past second base in seven innings against Seth Streich. The Snappers righty struck out Jesus Montero to end the seventh with runners on second and third after an infield single, an error and a double steal.

Peoria finally got on the board in the eighth inning against reliever Tyler Vail. Breyvic Valera reached on a two-base error with one out and moved to third on a grounder. He came home to score on a wild pitch to cut the Beloit lead to 3-1.

The Snappers put the game away in the eighth against reliever Sam Tuivailala. With two out the Snappers drew a pair of walks and Bostick tripled home both runners for a 5-1 Snappers lead.

Jones (2-1) allowed two runs on five hits over six innings in his third straight quality start. He walked one and struck out three while allowing two solo homers. Scanio allowed one run on two hits over one inning while walking one and striking out one. Tuivailala allowed two runs on one hit and three walks over one inning.

Notes: Ildemaro Vargas now has a 10-game hit streak and Nick Martini has a six-game streakJordan Walton's hit streak ended at nine games while Patrick Wisdom's ended at fiveThe lasts three runs allowed by Jones have been in solo home runsHe has gone at least five innings in all four starts and at least six in the last threeThe two teams were a combined 1-for-17 with runners in scoring position, 0-for-4 for Peoria and 1-for-13 for BeloitSwinson came off the DL on Thursday for his first game since May 31The Chiefs are 2-5 against Beloit this season, 1-4 in WisconsinThe Chiefs wore their road grays for the first time since May 28 having worn their red BP tops for the last 11 road gamesThe series continues Friday at 7:00 p.m. as the Chiefs start LH Kyle Helisek (5-2, 3.54 against Beloit RH Vince Voiro (3-2, 2.79)The broadcast can be heard, starting with the Premier Print Group pre-game show at 6:45 p.m. on www.peoriachiefs.com/listenlive which also has downloads for a free app on the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry and Android.

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