PCL1 Omaha Storm Chasers

Storm Chasers Finish Sweep of I-Cubs

Published on June 13, 2012 under Pacific Coast League (PCL1)
Omaha Storm Chasers News Release


Des Moines, IA - Irving Falu homered and drove in two runs to support three pitchers who stymied Iowa in Omaha's 5-2 win Wednesday afternoon in the last of three meetings at Prinicpal Park. The Storm Chasers swept the series and recorded their season-high eighth straight win to improve to 42-25 and widen their lead to 13 games over the second place Cubs in the American Conference North Division.

Falu continued his hot hitting with his fourth long ball of the season, and third in the last week, in the third inning that got the scoring started and extended his hitting streak to 16 games. Iowa tied the contest in the fifth on an opposite field solo home run to left field by Blake Lalli.

Omaha pieced together four singles, the last two from Tony Abreu and David Lough each knocking in a run, to move back in front, 3-1, in the sixth. Cubs starter Rodrigo Lopez took the loss after allowing the three runs on eight hits while striking out six over six innings of work.

Iowa crawled back to within a run in the home sixth on back-to-back doubles by Juan Apodaca and Luis Valbuena that knocked Omaha starter Doug Davis out of the game. The veteran left-hander earned the victory after he went 5 1/3 innings and was charged with those two runs on six hits while fanning three in a spot start after Jonathan Sanchez, the original scheduled starter, was summoned back to the big leagues by Kansas City.

Jeremy Jeffress took over and notched the final two outs in the sixth and tossed a scoreless seventh before giving way to Tommy Hottovy, who retired all six hitters he faced to register his sixth save of the season.

Former Omaha Royals hurler Mike MacDougal worked a clean seventh inning but yielded an unearned insurance run in the eighth that made it 4-2. Jason Bourgeois drew a lead off walk in the ninth, advanced to second base on a balk, stole third and scored on a Falu single up the middle to account for the final run of the contest.

The Storm Chasers will send left-hander Ryan Verdugo to the hill on Thursday in the opener of a four-game set against Nashville right-hander Seth McClung. Coverage of the game gets underway at 6:45 pm and can be heard locally on 1180 Zone Two, The Deuce and online at omahastormchasers.com.

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