Rattlers wiped out by Wizards
July 14, 2008 - Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release
FORT WAYNE, IN - The Fort Wayne Wizards beat the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers 9-4 Monday night at Memorial Stadium. All nine Wizard hitters had at least one hit as they collected 16 hits as a team. Four Fort Wayne pitchers held the Rattlers to three hits. Justin Baum homered and drove in three runs for Fort Wayne while Jeremy Hefner allowed one run on a hit over six innings for the win.
On Sunday, the Wizards were held off the scoreboard until they scored twice in the bottom of the ninth inning to pick up a 2-1 win. On Monday, they did not wait. Robert Perry started the bottom of the first inning with a triple. One out later, he scored on a single by Lance Zawadzki, who drove in the winning run on Sunday.
Fort Wayne (10-15 second half, 47-48 overall) added a run in the second inning on a run scoring bunt single by Brad Chalk.
The Wizards knocked Rattler starting pitcher Jake Wild out of the box with a two-out RBI single by Felix Carrasco in the bottom of the third. Yefri Carvajal greeted reliever Keith Meyer with a double that put a pair of runners in scoring position. Anthony Contreras followed with a two-run single and the Wizards went up 5-0.
Wisconsin (4-20, 35-55) got their first run of the game on their only hit off Hefner. Alex Liddi lined a homer to left-center with two outs in the fifth. The home run was Liddi's first since May 6 when he homered at Great Lakes.
Hefner left after working a 1-2-3 sixth inning. Wisconsin got their second run in the seventh inning against reliever Omar Gutierrez. Denny Almonte drew a leadoff walk, stole second, went to third on a grounder, and scored on a Joe White grounder. A hit by Juan Diaz and a walk to Liddi brought the tying run to the plate, but Gutierrez got out of the jam with a popup.
Justin Baum gave the Wizards the five run lead back with a two-run homer to right off Wisconsin reliever Joe Kantakevich.
Denny Almonte's RBI triple in the top of the eighth got Wisconsin to within 7-3.
Then, Fort Wayne added two more runs in the bottom of the eighth. Danny Payne sent one run home with a single to right. Baum knocked in his third run of the game with an infield grounder to put the Wizards up 9-3.
The Timber Rattlers are off on Tuesday. They return to action on Wednesday night back home on Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities with the first game of a three-game series against the South Bend Silver Hawks. Wednesday is also a special Bang For Your Buck Night with soda, hot dogs, and beers on sale for $1.
Edward Paredes (4-9, 5.13) is the scheduled starting pitcher for the Timber Rattlers in game one. Dallas Buck (1-1, 3.42) is the scheduled starter for the Hawks. Game time is 7:05pm.
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