ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The Chiefs rallied to beat the Rattlers 9-5. Ryan Lilly had three this and scored three runs to pace the Peoria offense. Wisconsin led 5-4 heading into the top of the sixth inning, but the Chiefs scored two runs after the Rattlers committed four errors after there were two outs and took the lead.
FOUR ERRORS? Juan Colon retired the first two batters of the sixth inning. Then, Mark Reed reached on the first error. A wild pitch moved Reed to second. Rattler catcher Travis Scott thought a pitch was strike three and rolled the ball to the mound. The pitch was actually strike two and Scott took third on the error. After a walk, Colon threw another wild pitch that allowed Reed to score the tying run. Scott threw wildly to the plate for the play for another error. Then, Colon threw the ball into left field as the runner from first headed for third. That runner scored easily and the Chiefs never looked back.
SLOPPY: Wisconsin committed a total of five errors in the game to match a season high. The other time the Rattlers were charged with five errors was April 11 at Beloit. Four of the nine Peoria runs last night were unearned.
ROCK SOLID RELIEF: Justin Rayborn worked three perfect innings out of the Peoria bullpen with five strikeouts after the Chiefs took the lead in the sixth Matt Avery pitched a perfect ninth to close out the win.
STANFORD SLUGGER: Rattler shortstop Chris Minaker had his streak of hits in consecutive plate appearances end at seven. He flew out in his first at bat of the Wednesday’s game.
DOUBLING DOWN: Jeff Flaig had another double last night. Four of his last eight hits have been doubles. Overall this season, nineteen of his fifty-seven hits have been doubles. The rest are all singles.
EDDY’S HALF: Eddy Hernandez had two more hits, including a homer, and two RBI for the Rattlers last night. Hernandez is 39-for-141 (.277) with five homers and twenty RBI in forty games in the second half. He has raised his batting overall average from .217 to .242 with his second half surge.
HE LIKES IT HERE: Chief first baseman Ryan Norwood is 20-for-43 (.465) in ten games at Fox Cities Stadium this season.
OPPOSING STARTING PITCHER: Mitch Atkins was a seventh round pick of the Cubs in the 2004 draft out of Northeast Guilford High School in Browns Summit, North Carolina. He beat the Rattlers in his only start against them this season. He allowed two runs on four hits with a walk and five strikeouts over six innings at O’Brien Field on July 14. That started a four game winning streak for Atkins. In his last start, Atkins beat the Burlington Bees on August 12 as he gave up one hit and one unearned run over six innings at O’Brien Field. Atkins is 5-0 in nine road starts this season.
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