ABOUT YESTERDAY: The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers beat the Fort Wayne Wizards 7-3 yesterday afternoon. Jose Escalona tossed five innings of no-hit ball and won his second straight decision. The Rattlers put up five runs in the top of the fifth and added two insurance runs in the ninth for their third win in six games on the current road trip.
NO GO ON THE NO-NO: Escalona walked two batters in the first four innings, but ran into trouble in the bottom of the fifth. He walked the lead-off batter, but got the next two on routine flyouts. Then, with a 1-2 count to the ninth hitter in the Wizard order Abraham Aguilar, Escalona hit him to extend the inning. Back-to-back walks forced home a run. Escalona got out of the frame by striking out Seth Johnston. Escalona did not return to the mound was that he had reached his pitch limit. He went from just over fifty pitches through four innings to just over eighty pitches after throwing 29 pitches in the fifth.
BROKEN UP: The Wizards broke up the no-hitter with a lead off single by Nic Crosta in the bottom of the sixth off Jeff Gilmore. The last Timber Rattler no-hitter was thrown by Derrick Van Dusen at Cedar Rapids on August 27, 2001.
DRIVE FOR FIVE: The Rattlers scored all five runs in the top of the fifth inning after there were two outs and nobody on base. Ron Garth drew a walk, JB Tucker singled, and Mike Saunders followed with an RBI single. A walk to Nick Prosise loaded the bases. Then, Eddy Hernandez drew a walk to force home a run. A wild pitch scored Saunders and Bryan Sabatella capped the inning with a two-run single.
IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN: The walk drawn by Hernandez was just the second pass he had taken in 68 plate appearances this season.
AGAIN WITH THE HITS: Jeffery Dominguez had two more hits yesterday. He has collected at least two hits in a game in all five games he has played on this road trip.
PARTY ON GARTH: Ron Garth extended his hitting streak to ten games with a ninth inning RBI single yesterday. The ten-game hitting streak is the longest on the Rattlers this season. Garth is 14-for-43 (.326) during the streak.
OPPOSING STARTING PITCHER: Ben Krosschell was a 16th round pick of the Padres in 2004 out of Highlands Ranch (CO) High School. In his first two seasons, he was 3-10 with a 3.82ERA for the AZL Padres and the Eugene Emeralds. He won his last start for the Wizards by going five innings shutout innings against Quad Cities and allowing only three hits.
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