FL Joliet Slammers

Slammers Defeat River City 11-4 on Tuesday

Published on August 5, 2015 under Frontier League (FL)
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O'Fallon, Mo The Joliet Slammers scored seven times in the 2nd inning and rolled to an 11-4 win over River City on Tuesday.

The Slammers (28-39) took a 1-0 lead in the 1st inning off Rascals starter Lucas Laster. Charlie White was hit by a pitch and later scored on a double play. Joliet then broke the game open with their big 2nd inning. Phil Bates and White each had RBI singles, with the other run coming on an error. The big hit was a grand slam from Alfredo Rodriquez, knocking Laster from the game with the Rascals (30-35) trailing 8-0.

Joliet starter Kevin Walter could not stay in the game long enough to earn the victory. He gave up an unearned run in the 3rd and then three more runs scored in the 5th, with RBI doubles from Curran Redal and Jackson Slaid ending his day. Kevin McNorton came on in relief and earned the win with 1 2/3 innings of perfect relief. He struck out two and walked none on the way to lowering his ERA to a stellar 1.61 on the season. Hunter Ackerman pitched a scoreless 7th inning and Patrick Dyer blanked the Rascals in the 8th and 9th.

The final runs of the day from Joliet came courtesy of catcher Jack Cleary's 3-run homer off River City reliever Joe Pavlovich, who went 4 2/3 innings out of the pen. The Rascals ended up using five pitchers on the day.

The Slammers continue their three game set with the Rascals on Wednesday at 6:35pm. Tim Koons (7-0) is scheduled to face Joliet's Michael Carden (2-4). The series concludes with Thursday's 6:35pm start. All games in River City can be heard at http://www.talkstl.com/river-city-rascals/

Joliet returns home on Friday August 7th to open a weekend series against the Florence Freedom at 7:05pm. Friday night will be Princess Night at Silver

Cross Field. It will also be a Fireworks Friday as well. Saturday's contest will start at 6:05pm and Sunday's Bark in the Park game will begin at 1:05pm. Slammers home action can be seen and heard at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/slammervision

The Joliet Slammers play at Silver Cross Field in downtown Joliet, Illinois, and are members of the professional, independent Frontier League. The Frontier League is a 14-team league in its 23rd  season of play in 2015. Individual and group tickets are available by calling the Slammers office at (815) 722-BATS or by visiting www.jolietslammers.com.

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