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Rattlers beat Bees in 11th

June 1, 2006 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Burlington, IA (June 1, 2006) Robby Hudson raced home on a wild pitch in the top of the eleventh inning for the game-winning run as the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (20-33) beat the Burlington Bees (26-25) 7-6 at Community Field tonight to avoid being swept in the four-game series. The Bees win three of four and lead the season series 6-2, with both losses coming in eleven innings. The loss ends a nine-game home winning streak for the Bees.

Both offenses started quickly tonight. Bryan Sabatella belted a two-run homer in the top of the second off of Bees' starter David Henninger to get the Rattlers on the board. The Bees came right back with three in the bottom of the inning against Wisconsin starter Jason Snyder. Antonio Sabatini and Ethien Santana collected RBI singles and Josh Johnson drove in the third run with a sacrifice fly. The Rattlers tied the games on a two-out RBI single by Curtis Ledbetter in the top of the third and it could've been a bigger inning except Sabatini jumped over the wall to rob a home run from Nick Prosise to end the inning. The Bees came back with two in the bottom of the inning. Brady Everett drove in Mario Lisson with a double and later scored on a two-out single by Carlos Arroyo to put the Bees back on top 5-3.

In the top of the fourth, the Rattlers loaded the bases with two outs to knock out Henninger. Yovany Damico took over and was greeted by a double to the wall in right by Casey Craig that drove in two, but the inning ended when the relay throw to the plate cut down Jeff Dominguez trying to score from first. The Timber Rattlers went back on top in the fifth. With one out, Sabatini dropped a line drive off the bat of Ledbetter for the Bees third of four errors on the night-a season high. Ledbetter went to third on a wild pitch and scored when, with the infield in, Prosise hit a bouncer to the left of Everett at first and he beat the throw to the plate.

Snyder worked through sixth and the Bees tied the game against Edgar Guaramato in the seventh. Lisson laced a one-out double off the wall in left and with two outs, Guaramato hit Everett in the head with a pitch. Everett had to leave the game and Miguel Vega ran for him at first. Guaramato then got ahead of Jeremy Jirschele 0-2, but walked him to load the bases. David Asher came in and walked pinch-hitter Jose Duarte to force in the tying run.

Damico worked through the seventh and Chris Hayes struck out four in three scoreless innings in relief to get the game to the eleventh. Asher came out after a scoreless eighth and Nick Allen pitched two perfect innings for Wisconsin. Gilbert De La Vara took the mound for the top of the eleventh and gave up back-to-back one-out singles to Hudson and Jeff Dominguez. The runners advanced to second and third with two outs when De La Vara threw out Craig at first on a high bouncer towards the third base line. The third pitch to Ron Garth got through catcher JP Lowen for the wild pitch that allowed Hudson to score and two pitches later, Garth was called out on strikes. Joe Woerman walked Johnson, but struck out the side in the bottom of the eleventh inning for his fifth save. Allen (3-0) got the win and De La Vara (3-3) suffered his second straight loss.

The Bees start a four game series against the Cedar Rapids Kernels tomorrow night at Veterans Memorial Stadium. RH Chris Nicoll (3-2, 1.93) will start for the Bees against RH Tommy Mendoza (2-5, 5.18) for the Kernels. The game starts at 7:00 and will be broadcast live on KBUR AM 1490 and KBKB AM 1360 with the pre-game show starting at 6:40.

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