MWL1 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

Davis & Davis Deliver Rattler Win

August 10, 2010 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release


CLINTON, IA - Khris Davis inched closer to a Wisconsin Timber Rattlers franchise record for home runs. Kentrail Davis had three more hits and drove in the winning run with a ninth inning double. The Davises helped the Rattlers to a come-from-behind 6-5 win over the Clinton LumberKings Tuesday night at Alliant Energy Field. The win gave the Rattlers a split in the four game series after they dropped the first two games at Clinton.

Khris Davis put the Timber Rattlers (46-66 overall, 20-24 second half) in front in the second inning. He launched a solo homer to left to start the inning. It was the eighteenth home run of the season for Davis. The Timber Rattlers franchise record for homers in a single season is 21 and his held by Juan Silvestre (1999) and Matt Hagen (2003).

Wisconsin continued to hit in the second and took advantage of a pair of Clinton errors in the inning to take a 3-0 lead. Chris Dennis singled. Then, D'Vontrey Richardson singled to right. The throw to third to try to get Dennis was wild and Dennis scored as Richardson took third. Austin Stockfisch was next and he sent a grounder to third. Throw came to the plate and Richardson knocked the ball out of the mitt of the catcher to score the third run.

But, Clinton (60-52, 23-20) answered with a run in the second and three run third to take a 4-3 lead. Matt Cerione knocked in the first run with a two-out single in the second. In the third, the first two batters reached on a single and a walk against starting pitcher Eric Arnett. Nick Franklin followed with an RBI single. The next two batters knocked in runs with RBI grounders.

The LumberKings added a run in the fourth inning. Mario Martinez doubled to start the inning when his fly ball to center was lost in the lights. Two outs later, he scored on single by James Jones against Adrian Rosario.

The Rattlers rallied with single runs in the fifth and sixth inning with a little help from the LumberKings defense.

In the fifth, Wisconsin had runners at first and second with one out. Hunter Morris sent a grounder to first. Clinton got the force at second, but the return throw to first was wild and the runner from second scored.

In the sixth, Dennis started the inning with a double. He took third when reliever Stephen Pryor threw back to second on a pickoff play, but nobody was covering the base. Dennis scored the tying run on a two-out wild pitch.

Rosario struck out eight over 3-1/3 innings, but he left the game with two on and one out in the bottom of the seventh. Matt Costello got the first out, but walked Catricala intentionally to set up a lefty-lefty confrontation with Mickey Wiswall. Costello fell behind Wiswall 2-0 with the bases loaded, but came back to strike out Wiswall to end the inning.

Michael Marseco started the Wisconsin ninth inning with a single, but the next two batters grounded into force outs at second. That brought Kentrail Davis to the plate. He lined a 3-2 pitch into the left field corner and Scotter Gennett streaked around the bases to score the go ahead run.

Jon Pokorny came on to pitch the bottom of the ninth and walked Gabriel Noriega to start the frame. The Rattlers closer finished off the LumberKings with a strikeout, a force out at second, and a strikeout. That gave Pokorny his twelfth save of the season.

Wisconsin heads down the road to Davenport, Iowa to take on the Quad Cities River Bandits in a three game series that starts on Wednesday. Nick Bucci (5-5, 3.40) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Rattlers. The Bandits will send Shelby Miller (5-5, 3.86) to the hill. Game time is 7:00pm. Tune in for the radio broadcast on AM1280, WNAM starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:40pm.

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