MWL1 Quad Cities River Bandits

Swing Reach High Water Mark With A 6-2 Win

Published on May 9, 2007 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Quad Cities River Bandits News Release


The Swing of the Quad Cities improved to a season-best five games over .500 with a 6-2 win over the Lansing Lugnuts on Wednesday afternoon at Oldsmobile Park. The three-through-six hitters in the Swing lineup combined to collect all eight of the team's hits, as Mark Shorey went 3-for-3 and Chris Grossman drove in three runs.

Quad Cities (19-14) is now 7-2 during the month of May and has won nine of their last 12 ballgames. Lansing (16-13) is moving in the opposite direction, having lost seven of their last eight games including the first two of the current four-game series.

The Swing started the scoring in the top of the first. With two outs and the bases empty Lansing elected to pitch around Brandon Buckman with four consecutive balls, but Quad Cities made the Lugnuts pay. Shorey, Grossman, and Christian Reyes followed with three doubles in a row, as Grossman's two-base hit drove in a pair and Reyes' made it a 3-0 ballgame.

Quad Cities had a chance to blow the game wide open in the third, loading the bases with nobody out. One runner came home when Grossman bounced into a double play, but the Swing had to settle for just one run and a 4-0 lead when the next batter grounded out to end the inning.

After a Joey Metropoulos home run cut the lead to 4-1, the Swing went back to work in the fifth. Buckman drew another bases-empty, two-out walk and Shorey was hit by a pitch. With the runners in motion Grossman lined a single to center that brought Buckman home, and after a single loaded the bases Daryl Jones drew a walk to force in a run for a 6-1 advantage.

Tandem starter Tyler Herron (1-4) earned his first win of the year in a scorer's decision, striking out five without issuing a walk while allowing one run on two hits over 3.2 innings. The 20-year-old retired the first 10 batters he faced after entering the game in the sixth, but allowed consecutive one-out doubles in the ninth that led to the Lugnuts' second run.

Starter Brad Furnish held the Lugnuts to just one run on two hits, as the Metropoulos homer in the fourth was all that Lansing could get against him. The southpaw out of Texas Christian University fanned four while walking one in four solid innings of work.

Kyle Ginley (0-3) took the loss for Lansing, allowing six runs - five earned - on six hits over 4.2 frames.

TICKETS: Tickets for all events at John O'Donnell Stadium can be purchased by calling the Swing of the Quad Cities ticket office at (563) 328-2000, coming to the box office located at the stadium along South Gaines Street, or by logging on to www.swingbaseball.com.

UP NEXT: The Swing are on the road through May 14 for a 10-game trip that includes stops in Cedar Rapids, Lansing, and Burlington. They will return to John O'Donnell Stadium for a 10-game homestand from May 14-24, beginning an extended home stretch in which 14 of their next 18 games will be played in Davenport. All Swing games feature a radio broadcast that can be heard on The Truth AM-1270 or online at www.swingbaseball.com, with the pre-game show starting 15 minutes prior to scheduled first pitch.

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