ABOUT LAST NIGHT: The Chiefs beat the Timber Rattlers 3-1. Jesse Estrada gave up two hits and one run over seven innings with four strikeouts and no walks for the win.
TYING IT UP: The Rattlers trailed 1-0 with two outs in the top of the fourth inning. Adam Moore hit a home run to left to tie the game.
RETIRING KIND: After the home run by Moore, Chief pitchers retired the final sixteen Rattler batters of the game. Estrada retired the final ten batters he faced. Scott Koerber worked a 1-2-3 eighth and Justin Rayborn pitched a perfect ninth for the save and to finish off Wisconsin.
FIRST START: Juan Colon made his first start since 2004 last night. He pitched five innings and gave up two runs on three hits with no walks and four strikeouts. Colon’s previous high for innings pitched as a Rattler was three innings against Quad Cities on July 17 against Quad Cities.
TWO RUNS: The Chiefs scored their first run off Colon on a 4-6-3 double play with runners at the corners in the bottom of the first. A two-out RBI single by Jake Whitesides in the bottom of the fourth pushed the go ahead run across the plate.
LOOKOUT: Colon hit two batters to help load the bases before Whitesides hit his RBI single in the fourth. Rattler pitchers have hit 130 opposing batters this season.
WILD AND OUTSIDE: Rattler reliever Ruben Flores threw a wild pitch that allowed a run to score in the bottom of the eighth. Flores has now thrown seventeen wild pitches this season. He is tied with Justin Dunning (WI ’99) for third on the single season list for wild pitches by a Rattler. The team record is held by Justin Kaye (WI ’97) with 21 wild pitches.
SOMETHING TO SHOOT FOR: With seven games remaining in the regular season, the Rattlers are 50-83. Wisconsin needs to go 4-3 over those last seven games to pass the 2002 Timber Rattler team that finished the season 53-86. That 53-86 mark in the worst record in Wisconsin history.
MEET THE NEW GUY: Pitcher John Sullivan, was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Mariners in August of 2004 out of the University of Oakland in Michigan. At Oakland, Sullivan was mainly a catcher and a third baseman and he was a First Team All-Mid-Continent Conference performer with a .348 batting average and twelve home runs. Sullivan made his professional pitching debut for the Mariners Arizona League affiliate in 2005. He went 3-0 with a pair of saves and a 2.92ERA. He began 2006 with the AZL Mariners and made one appearance for Seattle’s California League affiliate on August 23.
OPPOSING STARTING PITCHER: Fabian Jimenez started the season with the Fort Wayne Wizards. He was 5-7 with the Wizards before being sent to the Cubs organization in the Scott Williamson trade. Since joining Peoria, Jimenez is 1-2 with a 12.72ERA in three starts. Jimenez won his last start, a five inning outing against Quad Cities on August 24 at O’Brien Field. He allowed two runs on nine hits with two walks and two strikeouts for the victory. Jimenez made one start against the Rattlers as a member of the Wizards on April 26 at Memorial Stadium. The Rattlers scored four runs on six hits and five walks over 4-2/3 innings. Jimenez struck out six Rattlers over that start.
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