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Rattlers turn tables to split series

August 18, 2005 - Midwest League (MWL1)
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Burlington, IA (August 18, 2005) Last night, the Burlington Bees (28-26, 62-62) beat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (30-24, 69-55) 10-2 to take a 2-1 lead in this series. Tonight, Wisconsin returned the favor with a 10-2 victory over the Bees to earn a split of this four-game series at Community Field. With the win, Wisconsin wins the season series 8-4.

The Bees got on the board first with a run in the bottom of the second inning. Brian McFall singled and with one out, he took off to steal second. Rattlers' starter Julio Santiago threw behind him to first, but Marshall Hubbard lost the ball in the sun and the ball rolled away for an error allowing McFall to go all the way to third. Eddie Solis then brought him in with a sacrifice fly to center. Santiago (5-3) got a flyout to end the inning making the run unearned. It was the only run he would allow through six innings while striking out seven for the win.

The Rattlers evened the scored against the Bees and starter Dusty Dossett in the third on a sacrifice fly by Hubbard to drive in Brent Johnson. In the top of the fourth, Chris Colton and Matt Tuiasasopo opened the inning with consecutive doubles to put the Rattlers ahead and then Jeff Clement singled to drive in Tuiasosopo to extend the lead to 3-1. The Rattlers added three more in the top of the fifth inning to knock Dossett (0-1) out of the game. With one out, Josh Womack singled and scored on a triple by Yung Chi Chen. Hubbard followed with a double to score Chen sending Dossett to the bench in favor of Zane Carlson. Carlson threw a wild pitch to move Hubbard to third where he could score on a sacrifice fly by Colton for the final run of the inning.

Carlson would work 2.2 innings and give up two more runs in the seventh. Chen added another RBI on a double and scored on a single by Hubbard who finished with three RBI. Yovany Damico, celebrating his 21st birthday today, finished the final two innings and allowed the final two runs in the eighth on an RBI double by Omar Falcon who later scored on a single by Womack.

The Bees second run was also unearned against Jon Lockwood in the seventh. Solis swung and missed at strike three to start the inning, but Falcon missed the ball for a passed ball that allowed Solis to get to first. Cody Cure and Darwinson Salazar each singled to load the bases and Irving Falu brought Solis in with a slow bounce out to first. Lockwood got out of the inning with two strikeouts. Donny Langdon pitched a scoreless eighth and Eric O'Flaherty set the Bees down in order in the ninth to end the game.

The Kane County Cougars also lost tonight and the Beloit Snappers beat the Swing of the Quad Cities, so the Bees, Cougars, and Snappers are all tied two games behind the Swing in the standings with 16 games left to play. Only two of the four teams will make the playoffs. The Bees don't have any games left head-to-head with any of the three.

The Bees go back on the road for a four game series at C.O. Brown Stadium in Battle Creek, Michigan against the Southwest Michigan Devil Rays starting tomorrow night at 6:05 Central time. The Bees will send LH Danny Christensen (3-6, 3.93) to the mound in game one. The game will be broadcast live on KBUR AM 1490 and KBKB AM 1360 with the pre-game show starting at 5:45.

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