06
May
2016
Quad Cities collects 10 hits but is shut out for the third time in 2016
LANSING, Mich. -- The Quad Cities River Bandits held the Lansing Lugnuts to one hit while compiling ten of their own, but fell 1-0 Thursday night at Cooley Law School Stadium. Johnny Sewald had three hits and Aaron Mizell and Connor Goedert also had multi-hit games. Zac Person tossed four scoreless innings in the losing effort. While they only gave up one hit, Bandits pitchers combined to walk nine Lugnuts.
It was walks that would be the demise of the River Bandits (11-16) Thursday. Sebastian Kessay walked the first two of the third inning before tossing two straight balls to the next hitter. After the pitch, a mound visit ended in Kessay, who missed all of 2015 from Tommy John surgery, departing with an apparent injury. Person came on and wound up finishing off the walk. He got Juan Kelly to bounce into a double play which plated a run. That would be the only score of the game, with the run charged to Kessay (1-3) to give him the loss.
The Bandits offense had their chances. They had at least one baserunner in all nine innings. Jon Harris (1-3) gave up six hits in five shutout innings to get the win. Taylor Saucedo tossed three scoreless for a hold and Dusty Isaacs stranded the potential tying run at third in the ninth for his fourth save of the year. It was the third time Quad Cities has been shutout this season and second in their last four games.
The Bandits look to even the series with the Lugnuts (15-10) on Friday in the second of a three-game set. Quad Cities sends Kevin McCanna (0-1, 2.70) to the mound against lefty Angel Perdomo (2-0, 1.59). First pitch is set for 6:05 p.m. CT. You can join Jake Levy for the radio broadcast, starting with the LLOYD Agencies Pregame Show at 5:50 p.m. on K-BOB 1170 AM, riverbandits.com and the TuneIn app.****
