BANDITS BLANKED BY RATTLERS FRIDAY NIGHT
Quad Cities and Wisconsin split two-game set at Modern Woodmen Park
DAVENPORT, Iowa - The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers needed just one run to beat the Quad Cities River Bandits, 1-0, at Modern Woodmen Park in game two of the 2017 season. Monte Harrison left the yard in the eighth inning off Quad Cities’ reliever Dustin Hunt.
Both starting pitchers did not yield a run. Quad Cities (1-1) starter Carson LaRue lasted five innings, allowing no runs on three hits, striking out four. Trey Supak was perfect into the sixth for Wisconsin (1-1), until Chuckie Robinson belted a double with two outs for the first River Bandits hit. Supak was relieved after 5 2/3 innings after striking out seven and allowing just one hit. Hunt (0-1) took the loss despite three innings of one-run ball that featured five strikeouts, which matched his career high.
Jordan Desquin (1-0) came out of the pen for Wisconsin and scattered three hits, but no runs. He worked out of a first and second jam in the sixth.
Quad Cities threatened in the eighth, putting runners at first and third with one out. However, Timber Rattlers pitcher Luke Barkerinduced a 5-4-3 double play ball off the bat of Daz Cameron to escape. The River Bandits placed runners on first and second with one out in the ninth, but were robbed of a potential game-tying hit on a 5-4 double play with Randy Cesar at the plate.
Barker pitched the final inning and a third for Wisconsin, allowing just one hit. Edgardo Sandoval pitched a scoreless ninth for Quad Cities and Stephen Wrenn recorded two hits in the losing effort.
The Bandits and Timber Rattlers turn their attention to game three of the four game series in Wisconsin tomorrow night. First pitch is scheduled for 4:05 p.m. Timber Rattlers RHP Thomas Jankins (0-0, 0.00) Cities LHP Brett Adcock (0-0, 0.00).
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The River Bandits head to Peoria, Illinois to begin a three-game series with the Chiefs on Monday night at 6:30 p.m. CT, when 2016 first-round draft choice Forrest Whitley is expected to make his first start for Quad Cities this season. You can hear all the action on the River Bandits broadcast network starting with the On-Deck Show, powered by Hampton Inn and Suites Davenport at 6:15.
