WhiteCaps Edge Rattlers
Published on July 9, 2009 under Midwest League (MWL1)
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers News Release
GRAND CHUTE, WI - The West Michigan Whitecaps were 0-4 against the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers during the 2009 season heading into Thursday's game. They had scored a total of ten runs in those four losses. On Thursday at Time Warner Cable Field, they scored 11 runs on 17 hits and beat Wisconsin 11-2. Avisail Garcia led the way with four hits for the Whitecaps.
West Michigan (52-32 overall, 9-5 second half) got to Rattlers starting pitcher Trey Watten immediately. The first four batters reached on singles. Bryan Pounds and Jordan Lennerton had the last two singles of that sequence and each drove in runs. Watten did get Ben Guez to ground into a 6-4-3 double play ball, but Pounds scored on the play for a 3-0 lead.
Whitecap starter Casey Crosby set down the Rattlers in order in the bottom of the first and the West Michigan bats scored two more in the top of the second. An RBI single by Garcia knocked in the first run and a bases loaded walk to Lennerton forced in the run to make the score 5-0.
The Rattlers (42-41, 8-5) couldn't do much against Crosby. In four innings, the lefty allowed two hits, walked three, and struck out seven. But, he left one inning shy of qualifying for the win.
Meanwhile, the Whitecaps hitters got going again in the fourth inning against Rattler reliever Daniel Meadows. Garcia scored from second on a single to center by Pounds when he knocked the ball out of the mitt of Rattlers catcher Martin Maldonado. Later in the inning, Ben Guez tripled to drive in a pair of runs and he would score as the throw into third deflected off his shoulder into the Timber Rattlers bullpen. That play put the Whitecaps up 9-0.
Wisconsin got on the board in the fifth inning against Whitecaps reliever Anthony Shawler. Pete Fatse tripled in Juan Sanchez with two outs.
But, West Michigan scored two more runs in the top of the seventh inning on a two-out single by Gustavo Nunez.
The Rattlers scored their last run late in the game. A two-out double by Derrick McPhearson drove in Michael Marseco from first base. But, that was it for the Rattlers offense.
The final game of the series is Friday night. Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Dave Bush will make the start for the Timber Rattlers on a rehab start. West Michigan will send Brandon Hamilton (3-3, 6.90) to the mound. Game time is 7:05pm.
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