MWL1 Wisconsin Timber Rattlers

Rattlers Drop Series Finale To Kane County

Published on April 10, 2011 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release


GRAND CHUTE, WI - Ryan Stovall and Alex Llanos homered to pace the Kane County Cougars to a 9-5 victory over the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Sunday afternoon at Time Warner Cable Field. Keaton Hayenga allowed two runs on five hits over five innings to pick up the win for the Cougars. Both teams are 2-2 after the first four games of the Midwest League season.

For the first time in the four game series, Wisconsin scored first. Greg Hopkins doubled with one out. Robbie Garvey followed with an RBI single. Tyler Roberts doubled to right and Garvey scored for a 2-0 Wisconsin lead. Then, Hayenga shut down the Rattlers. He retired the next 11 batters he faced.

The lead did not last long. Rattlers starter Del Howell walked Stovall to start the top of the third. Then, Llanos homered to left. One inning later, Angel Franco drew a leadoff walk and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly by Stovall. In the fifth, Howell walked Yowill Espinal to start the inning. A single and a double play moved Espinal to third with two outs. Howell ended his day when he walked Guelin Beltre - the sixth walk of the game for Howell - to put runners on the corners.

Stosh Wawrzasek relieved Howell and was greeted by Franco's bunt single to send Espinal home with a run to make the score 4-2 in favor of Kane County.

The Cougars loaded the bases with no outs against Wawrzasek in the sixth inning. But, a strikeout and a 3-2-3 double play got Wawrzasek out of the inning with no damage.

However, there was no escaping the seventh. Murray Watts doubled to start the frame for Kane County. One out later, Franco doubled to right to send Watts home. Franco was out at third trying to stretch the hit into a triple. Wawrzasek got the second out, but issued a walk to the next batter. Tom Keeling was next and he gave up a single to Fernando Cruz and a three-run homer to Stovall.

The final Kane County run crossed the plate on an error in the eighth.

Wisconsin stopped the streak of consecutive batters retired at 14 when Mike Walker drew a walk to start the seventh against Dusty Odenbach. The Rattlers got back on the scoreboard with three runs in the bottom of the ninth. Cody Hawn doubled against Chas Byrne and would score on a Walker single. One out later Garvey singled. Roberts doubled in two more runs to get the Rattlers to within 9-5 and there was only one out in the inning. Byrne settled down and got the final two outs of the game to secure the split in the series for the Cougars.

Wisconsin starts their first road trip of the season on Monday evening with a game against the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Tyler Thornburg makes his Midwest League debut as the starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers. Cedar Rapids has Brian Diemer (2-1, 5.48) as their scheduled starting pitcher. Game time at Perfect Game Field in Cedar Rapids, Iowa is 6:35pm. Tune in for the broadcast on AM1280, WNAM or at www.timberrattlers.com starting with the Miller Lite Pregame Show at 6:15pm.

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