MWL1 Quad Cities River Bandits

QC Finishes 7-3 Road Trip With Third Straight Win

Published on May 13, 2007 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release


The Swing of the Quad Cities improved to a season-high seven games over .500 with their third straight win on Sunday, a 3-2 victory over the Burlington Bees at Community Field. The two squads will shift their home-and-home series to John O'Donnell Stadium Monday night for the start of a 10-game homestand.

Quad Cities (22-15) put the finishing touches on a 7-3 road trip with the win, improving to 5-1 against the Bees this season. Burlington (14-21) stranded four men in scoring position over the final three innings of play, thanks in part to some big pitches down the stretch by Brad Furnish.

The Swing lead was trimmed to 3-2 in the seventh, but Furnish was able to pitch out of trouble to make the one-run margin stand up. A big strikeout of Chris McConnell left runners at second and third in the seventh, but one inning later Burlington had a man at third with just one out. The lefty responded with consecutive swinging strikeouts against Jase Turner and O.D. Gonzalez to strand the runner 90 feet away and preserve the slim lead.

After Furnish faced the first two batters in the bottom of the ninth, Kyle Sadlowski came in looking for the save. Jeremy Jirschele greeted him with a double to left-center and moved to third on a throwing error, but Sadlowski calmly responded by inducing a game-ending infield groundout for his first save of the year.

That gave starter Tyler Herron (2-4) his second consecutive win after holding the Bees to one run on three hits over five innings of work. He struck out five and walked one, retiring 10 of the first 11 batters that he faced before battling through the end of his outing for his first five-inning start of the year.

The Swing won the race to the scoreboard in the top of the third. Willian Sandoval was at second with two outs when Donovan Solano came to the plate and drove him home with a hard grounder past the third baseman. Brandon Buckman followed by splitting the gap in left-center with a run-scoring double that made it a 2-0 game.

Quad Cities added what proved to be the decisive run one inning later. Jaime Landin reached base on an error with one out and moved to second on a base hit by Luke Gorsett. Landin came home to score on a groundball single by Omar Falcon to push the advantage to 3-0.

Burlington made it a tight contest with single runs in the fifth and seventh innings. After Derrick Robinson's sacrifice fly put the Bees on the board, Matt Morizio checked in with a solo homer to pull to within a 3-2 score after seven innings of play.

Josh Cribb (1-2) took the loss after five innings of work, allowing three runs - two earned - on six hits to go along with five strikeouts.

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